Linux

GPU load monitoring applications: nvidia-smi vs nvtop vs nvitop vs KDE plasma systemmonitor.

I’m comparing self-hosted Kubernetes variants that suit the Ubuntu-based homelab with 3 nodes (16GB RAM, 4 cores each), focusing on ease of setup and maintenance, support for persistent volumes and LoadBalancers.

GitHub Actions is an automation and CI/CD platform within GitHub, used to build, test, and deploy your code based on events like pushes, pull requests, or on a schedule.

To configure VirtualBox shared folders in Linux Guest OS, follow these steps:

Here is my favorite set of steps when doing fresh install of the Ubuntu 24.04. What I like here - not need to install NVidia drivers! they are installed automagically.

After installing fresh linux on fresh PC I was surprised that I could not find an easy way to customise context menu in Ubuntu 24.04.

To determine the Ubuntu version that your Linux Mint installation is based on, you can use several methods involving command-line tools and system files.

I’ve got a theory to test - if utilising ALL cores on Intel CPU would raise the speed of LLMs? This is bugging me that new gemma3 27 bit model (gemma3:27b, 17GB on ollama) is not fitting into 16GB VRAM of my GPU, and partially running on CPU.

MinIO provides two standard UIs: (1) MinIO Console - That’s a web UI, and (2) MinIO Command - this is a commandline util mc.

MinIO is an open-source, high-performance, distributed object storage system designed to be fully compatible with the Amazon S3 API.

There are several ways to start a group of terminal tools in Linux Mint and have the terminal windows tiled, depending on your workflow and the level of automation you want.

When the Ollama server receives two requests at the same time, its behavior depends on its configuration and available system resources.

DBeaver is a universal database management tool and SQL client designed for developers, database administrators, analysts, and anyone who works with data professionally.

Probably shoud call this platform engineering now. Here are some notes on how to install connect and remove the Portainer - docker images and containers manager UI.

Venv is a virtual environment management commandline tool. A much more simple one, comparing to Anaconda. Here are some useful venv commands.

Sometimes there is a real need to save image from pdf without screenshoting or rendering the pdf on the screen. pdfimages helps with that.