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Hi, I'm ROllerozxa (pronounced ROlleroska). This is my site where I write about what I do and about whatever else interests me, in the case that someone else finds it interesting.

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Latest blog posts

• Converting multimedia with ffmpeg

  23 May 2023

  ffmpeg is a very versatile and useful tool with the capability to compose and manipulate multimedia in all sort of complicated ways… Emphasis on complicated. However it is still possible to use ffmpeg for simpler things without having to learn all of its syntax and arguments. And one of the simplest things you could use ffmpeg for is to simply convert between various media formats.

• Mjukisbyxor???

  17 Feb 2023

  I like reading through my access logs, almost as much as I like RSS feeds nowadays. So when I looked at the access logs for the Voxelmanip Forums, I was very interested to see what I thought was a new RSS client… Mjukisbyxor?

• The (arguably) Best Image on the Internet - An Analysis

  30 Jan 2023

  A while back I came across an image while randomly browsing the internet, a meme starring Pepe Apu Apustaja (apparently that's the name of the cute somewhat derpy looking Pepe variation) and everyone's favourite streamer Jerma. I personally consider it to be the best image on the Internet.

• Reinventing The Wheel

  06 Nov 2022

  The current gold standard of Wiki software would have to be MediaWiki. It is developed by the Wikimedia Foundation and is used by most Wikis on the internet, including Wikipedia and related projects. While it's certainly a very well polished piece of software that is designed to be able to handle a website within the top 10 websites (Wikipedia), it is a quite large piece of software that scales down poorly to a small Wiki hosted on a low-end server.

• Setting up Android-x86 with Virt-Manager

  12 Jul 2022

  Android-x86 is a project which aims to make a flavour of Android that is suitable to run natively on any regular x86-based desktop computer. It might therefore be a good option to use Android-x86 in a virtual machine you want to run Android apps on Linux, and find other options such as Anbox to either not work with your app of choice or you simply do not meet the system requirements to run Anbox.

  This post will show you how to set up an Android-x86 virtual machine on Linux using Virt-Manager, a GUI frontend for QEMU, and configuring it for optimal performance and coolness.

• Carving out your own little space

  08 Jun 2022

  Nowadays, the internet is mainly concentrated to large, centralised social media services. You have Discord rather than IRC, Reddit rather than forums, Twitter rather than (micro)blogs, etc. And I personally find that to be quite sad.

• The joys of Package Management

  03 Apr 2022

  One of the reasons I find Linux to be largely superior over Windows is its use of package managers. For a Windows user, this might seem like a nit-pick when comparing the two operating systems but it really is a game changer. The implementation of package managers varies between different families of Linux distributions, and I'm writing with Arch Linux's package manager pacman in mind, but the idea and core concept is the same no matter the distro.

• 5 Useful Command-line Utilities

  08 Mar 2022

  I realise I need to make more clickbaity, more digestible blog posts so I will now expand into the territory of Top 5 lists. This is how you do it right?

  The Linux terminal is an extremely powerful tool, allowing you to access and control your entire system just by typing commands. In addition, there exists a seemingly infinite amount of command-line utilities. What characterises all of these are just how lightweight they are, while not compromising in its power and flexibility.

• The Linux File Structure

  12 Feb 2022

  When I first tried out Linux, one of the things that stood out to me was its file structure. It is structured in a completely different way to Windows, and I believe that when you understand it you can see how it clearly is a superior way of structuring things.

• ROller's rules for happy computing

  29 Oct 2021

  As I've switched from the dumpster fire that is the Windows operating system, I've begun going about my way of managing my Linux system in a very particular way. These guidelines, or rules, have purely existed as ideas in my mind, and I haven't thought about writing them down until now.