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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
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Mjukisbyxor???
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? "GET /rss.php HTTP/2.0" 200 17344 "-" "Mjukisbyxor...
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The (arguably) Best Image on the Internet - An Analysis
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. It starts...
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Reinventing The Wheel
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...
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Setting up Android-x86 with Virt-Manager
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...
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Carving out your own little space
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. I am old enough to remember a faint memory of a more decentralised internet...
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The joys of Package Management
One of the reasons I find Linux to be largly 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 gamechanger. The implementation of package managers varies between different families...
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5 Useful Command-line Utilities
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...
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The Linux File Structure
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....
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ROller's rules for happy computing
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...
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Initial Commit
git commit -m "Intial Commit"