Cybrkyd
Cybrkyd
Cybrkyd
I’m cybrkyd and this is where I blog. I’m not really a kid by age; more of a perpetual kid at heart! This blog is a collection of tips and tricks and guides that have helped me and will hopefully help someone else. I will also offer my own random thoughts and opinions. A proud script kiddie, I enjoy having fun finding cool and efficient ways of doing stuff. I use Linux, love FOSS, and have a lot of play dates with Python, SQL, CSS, HTML, PHP, bash.
Latest Posts
International English seems to have developed a rule: never, ever use a hyphen, ever, on pain of death. I really want to blame American English here because that is where I find it is most prevalent, but I’m seeing this everywhere now,...
Install start time: 15:30 UTC Completed install: 15:40 UTC Then, I spent the next couple of hours re-learning Debian. I have really missed Debian, as it has been a long, long while. The immediate difference when compared to Ubuntu server...
It’s been one of those weeks. I’m feeling the winter blues already and have this nagging pull to hibernate. I feel exhausted and have no motivation to do anything. And… it’s been raining for two days straight, making the short November...
AI is creeping into my beloved Firefox: Introducing AI, the Firefox way: A look at what we’re working on and how you can help shape it. Right at the bottom of the announcement is a link to take part in “shaping” how Mozilla integrates AI...
I’m going to attempt to write out this entire post in Nano. It has spot-on markdown syntax highlighting and that’s all there is to it. It looks very cool when typing in here; I’m writing in a distraction-free environment (not even an...
I’m really into the solitaire card game Accordion. I play it from the Aisleriot card games collection, and I am utterly hooked. It is a very difficult game to complete but I’ve come to understand that the easiest shuffles to win are when...
On Hacker News “best” for today at #5 is a link to XSLT RIP which leads to Killed by Google, a fantastic case in point for my recent post E-mail as social media. How many social media services has Google sunset? I count at least 12,...
20 years ago, I might have become very excited by what is proposed herein. Today, not so much. Social media is a mess and even with new systems, protocols and platforms, critical mass is very difficult to achieve for breakthrough...
This is a very handy tip that I stumbled upon today. With the Jellyfin client for Android TV, I could not delete watched movies and episodes. To do so, I would need to log on to the Admin page in my browser and do it from there. This is...
After one week of running my home server, the results are in. Things have been going really well so far. The server is Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS on a repurposed Lenovo IdeaPad 5 14ITL05 (2021) with Core i5, 8GB RAM and 256GB storage....
I discovered Jrnl this past week and had a play. Nice toy. I installed it in my personal Python environment and tested it out. What struck me immediately was how many modules it installed; there were at least 15 in there, each one doing...
I’ve recently noticed that my desktop monitor is not turning off like it used to after 30 minutes of inactivity. It was working perfectly on Linux Mint 21 but after upgrading to LM 22, the monitor stays on, running the screen saver....
Jellyfin is done, and my automation Python scripts have been migrated from my VPS. What’s next? I guess nothing, for now. I have no real need for Pi-hole or Nextcloud or anything Fediverse. I’ve been thinking about what else can be added...
I picked up a pen, grabbed my notebook and wrote. I just wrote for the sake of writing by hand. I was in the office yesterday and had a rare few minutes of down time, inbox zero, so why not? I must have written 1,000 words plus; I have...
The announcement read: From September 30, 2025, access to Imgur from the United Kingdom is no longer available. I missed that one and only picked up on it when visiting the Linux Mint forums to look up some issue or other. Imgur is...