Getting a great new 100 Hz Ultra Wide monitor does not come without its share of tweaking. So it turns out that the refresh you set on your monitor in Nvidia settings (as explained in a previous post does not apply to all the display ports. They apparently count as different screens with different settings or something. So, here’s a handy script which you can add to your window manager’s autostart applications to set the refresh rate and resolution of your screen, regardless of which actual port you use:

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In case your python/ipython shell doesn’t have a working history, e.g. pressing ↑ only prints some nonsensical ^[[A, then you are missing either the readline or ncurses library. Ipython is more descriptive that something is wrong, but if you’re in the habit of mostly using python as a quick calculator, you might never notice: If you’re using Miniconda then just do: conda install ncurses readline And ↑ should work:

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After getting a fancy new monitor with G-Sync support, I was eager to try it out in my Linux gaming setup. While Nvidia fully supports G-Sync in their Linux drivers, it turns out that other components of the system can get in the way. As explained by a post on the Nvidia forums: For G-SYNC to work, the application has to be able to flip and the symptoms you’re describing here sound like it’s not able to flip in your configuration.

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When I decided I needed more disk space for media and virtual machine (VM) images, I decided to throw some more money at the problem and get three 3TB hard drives and run BTRFS in RAID5. It’s still somewhat experimental, but has proven very solid for me. RAID5 means that one drive can completely fail, but all the data is still intact. All one has to do is insert a new drive and the drive will be reconstructed.

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So I’ve been busy building my own RSS reader for the last few weeks. My motivation to make this app is because I got angry at gReader for displaying fullscreen-ads. The source is available on GitHub. I started with an idea of targeting Android-L, but because it’s only in preview any app targeting L will be completely incompatible with earler versions. Hence I was forced to refrain from using the new RecyclerView which I really liked.

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