Linux

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.

If you are maintaining legacy MinIO CE environments, pair this command reference with MinIO CE end of life in 2026 to plan migration and risk controls.

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.

This guide explains how Ollama handles parallel requests (concurrency, queuing, and resource limits), and how to tune it using the OLLAMA_NUM_PARALLEL environment variable (and related knobs).

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 images from a PDF without screenshotting or rendering the PDF on screen. pdfimages helps with that.

Most frequently used commands in Visual Studio Code

Here are some effective methods for decoding and printing JWT tokens directly from the command line:

This cheatsheet shows how to encode and decode Base64 on Windows, Linux, and macOS with certutil, PowerShell, and base64, including the flags that differ by system.

Or another day you want to extract image and text from the pdf.

Not every second Friday, but still… We have two mainstream approaches

Here’s a set of instructions on How to Configure to Run any Executable as a Service in Linux with Systemd.