https://whynothugo.nl/tags/alpine/Recent content in Alpine on WhyNotHugoHugo -- gohugo.ioenThu, 21 Mar 2024 21:34:46 +0100https://whynothugo.nl/journal/2023/11/24/setting-a-battery-charge-threshold/Fri, 24 Nov 2023 12:46:47 +0800https://whynothugo.nl/journal/2023/11/24/setting-a-battery-charge-threshold/Modern batteries degrade faster if continuously charged to 100%. Some vendors provide software implementations to avoid continuously feeding the battery when full to avoid overloading it. Usually this is tricky, since they have to invent some kind of mechanism to determine whether the user wants the battery fully charged or not. In the case of my laptop, the grand majority of my usages happens while plugged into a power source. Continuously charging the battery in this state merely serves to reduce its battery life and keep it warm, neither of which is desirable.https://whynothugo.nl/journal/2023/11/19/setting-up-an-alpine-linux-workstation/Sun, 19 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://whynothugo.nl/journal/2023/11/19/setting-up-an-alpine-linux-workstation/In the upcoming months I will travel to visit family and friends. I intend to work remotely during some of those weeks (and will take some other weeks off too). In preparation for this, I’ve set up a new1 ThinkPad T14s Gen 2i laptop that I’ll be using to work remotely. This article covers the steps that I take when setting up Alpine on this device. It is not intended to cover all possible installation options, but is a reference of my particular setup.https://whynothugo.nl/journal/2023/08/04/building-and-running-sway-master/Fri, 04 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://whynothugo.nl/journal/2023/08/04/building-and-running-sway-master/I wanted to run sway from upstream master branch to tests the yet-unreleased fractional scaling support. This recipe also works for trying to build sway with custom patches. First, I needed to clone sway itself and wlroots as a subproject. Building wlroots as a subproject is required since I need to use the current master of wlroots. Using the distribution/system provided wlroots is unlikely to work (due to it being the latest stable release).https://whynothugo.nl/journal/2023/02/18/in-praise-of-alpine-and-apk/Sat, 18 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://whynothugo.nl/journal/2023/02/18/in-praise-of-alpine-and-apk/Since the change of year, I’ve been using Alpine Linux on my main computing device (a new desktop PC that I assembled in December). These are some notes on in, some niceties and caveats. I used ArchLinux for over a decade before, so keep in mind that my main point of reference/background is using Arch+pacman. However, this is not an “Arch vs Alpine” article. My woes with package management[permalink] Over the years, I’ve experimented with many ways of “keeping a list of the list of packages installed”.