If you use firefox nightly and chromium you've likely ran into the issue where some apps launch chromium as the default browser for URLs. This is ultimately due to firefox nightly not having a true installer which would create the firefox.desktop file that xdg-settings uses to set/determine the browser to open on …

There are several good articles on setting up SAR for debian (sar on ubuntu/debian) and redhat systems but I could find few on Alpine (perhaps because it is simple). In any event, here's my process for setting up sar to run periodically via cron to track server stats. Install Install with: apk add sysstat Setup Not a …

mail (from mailutils) is a common sysadmin tool for sending system mail, however, it brings in unneeded/undesired packages (e.g. mysql/mariadb tools). sendmail is much lighter and can usually get the job done. Typical mail Scenario The following cron entry runs deborphan every Monday at 14:33, emailing the results to …

About SweetHome3D is a free interior design application. You can install it from most repos; however, the install often requires a lot of unneeded libraries and/or didn't work well for my situation. There are several articles that suggest you can/should run it directly but none gave the steps needed so I thought I …