AksDev
AksDev
Akseli Lahtinen
Hi, I'm Aks (Akseli Lahtinen) from Finland! I'm KDE dev by day and a hobbyist gamedev/FOSS-dev by night. I like metal, industrial and EBM music, and I love FPS, RPG and spacesim games. I also love tinkering with Linux systems.
Latest Posts
Just a super short post this time! I'm testing this analytics tool called GoatCounter. I just added it to this site and if you don't want to be tracked, you can use Ublock...
Server migration, from Digital Ocean to Hetzner
Well that took a while. After 6 hours I am finally done with this. It was hell but I feel accomplished. However I'm still tying up lose ends. Why? I wanted to move my stuff from...
What worries me about AI tooling
I was listening Linux Downtime episode 51 and meanwhile it was nice to hear that Copilot has been helpful for open source developers.. It still worries me. First off I still...
Today in Gaming On Linux discord group I was told that "I don't care about my playerbase" by one person and I got so frustrated I decided to write a blogpost about this. That's...
Easy way to open Discord through Firefox without address bar!
Since the Electron wrapper of Discord is so bad and outdated, especially on Linux, here's a way to start Discord through Linux in a "single page app" way. I got the help for it...
I deleted Windows! And switched to Fedora
Last sunday I finally decided it's time to leave Windows properly behind. I had Windows installed on my PC just in case I want to dualboot back to it. But almost year has been...
Fixing DNS issues in Kubuntu 22.04
DNS. It's always the effing DNS. I had Kubuntu 21.10 installed with snaps disabled. Decided to run an update to Kubuntu 22.04. I'm on "normal" track, so this is for non-LTS...
I have always dabbled with programming languages, even as a kid. But I never made anything with them until I was in my 20s. Most extensive things I did before my 20s was simple...
Playing with Matrix: Conduit and Synapse
I've been playing around with Matrix homeservers. I like the idea of running my own federated server to join random channels in. Here's the two I've played around with so far...
Why I find Linux gaming important?
People who read this mess of a blog may have noticed that I am very Linux-y. This wasn't actually always the case. I used to be very comfort oriented. Didn't mean that I didn't...
So I got a Devterm... Back in June I ordered a Devterm. It finally arrived this month. I enthusiastically retrieved the package and started assembling. The assembly part was...
So I got myself a PineTime watch about 8 days ago, and so far I've enjoyed using it! It's a rather simple smartwatch, but that's why I like it. No complicate BS, just the basic...
My character and Matrix server
Just a quick post, I wanted to share two things. Commissioned art First, I got this really nice commission of my character Huntra wearing Linux shirt. I really like Xenia so I...
Kubuntu multimonitor woes and fixes
I have had some problems with Kubuntu working well with multimonitor setup. I use X11 so the reason is most likely there, not just Kubuntu's fault. When booting up my PC and...
A bit of boring rambling. Something I've been thinking about. Not really answering the question directly. I am talking about desktop Linux and not just the server side. Just...