Example of Cannot Execute Required File Not Found on NixOS
One of the problems many NixOS users encounter is difficulty running binaries which have been compiled on other Linux systems. The error message from trying is typically: which is confusing because the file is right there. In this post, I’ll walk through a “hello world” example, which hopefully illustrates what’s going on. Quickly Entering non-NixOS from NixOS A simple example [...]
Experience Updating the C Worksheet Project
Around a decade ago, I made a pretty neat project: a “worksheet” user interface for simple C programs. – By executing the worksheet, you get to see the program’s output annotated alongside the source code. An illustrative example:
Finally Playing Medal of Honor Airborne
I’d bought “Medal of Honor Airborne” on Steam many years ago, but had been unable to play it. Something about compatibility with my graphics card.
My desktop runs Linux these days; Valve’s Proton works pretty well for Windows games, and ProtonDB said that MoHA ran just fine. So, I was able to give it a go.
It more/less [...]
The Three Difficult Things about Nix
Nix is a fancy package manager, with a bunch of powerful features. One thing it’s notorious for is its steep learning curve. Although generally, learning to write Nix code is difficult for the same reasons a lot of other tech is difficult (e.g. you have to be aware of what’s possible, and unfamiliar things are always going to be have [...]
A Wish for More Accessible Classic Tomb Raider-ish Games
I’ve been playing through the Tomb Raider I-III Remastered collection of games. Yay, Remasters of Old Games The remaster fits in with a loose trend of some classic games being remade or remastered, and re-released. e.g. to my mind, the Age of Empires series did a good job with this: Age of Empires 2 got an HD re-release. After that [...]
Using Terraform to Manage an Object Stored in OpenStack Swift
Technologies OpenStack is a set of software that infrastructure providers can use to give users a user-experience similar to that of AWS or other cloud providers. e.g. Cleura provides a public cloud service which can be managed with OpenStack APIs. – I think the idea for OpenStack was to enable infrastructure providers to serve as a substitute for AWS.. albeit, [...]
Six Months of Going to the Gym
I’ve been going to the gym consistently for the last six months or so. Some thoughts: Goals I started going to the gym to improve my health; especially to lose fat. Alongside going to the gym, I’ve restricted the amount of soft drink I drink, & limited the amount of fried food I eat.
Those changes alone had a [...]
Another Factorio Post-Game Ramble
Factorio is such an enthralling game to play. If you’ve somehow found this post but don’t know Factorio: It’s a 2D game which starts out similar to many ‘survival’ games (e.g. you chop wood, mine stone and iron, etc.), but progressively build up ways to automate these tasks away. The eventual goal is to build and launch a rocket; although [...]
Tomb Raider 3
I just finished re-playing Tomb Raider 3. I’d played it many years ago, but almost certainly with cheats, as well as closely following a walkthrough. This time, I didn’t lean so hard on the walkthrough, and at least gave an honest try through most areas before looking up the walkthrough. Overall, I think I can stand by my opinion that [...]
Experience Writing Firmware with the CH582 Port of QMK
As noted previously, WeAct Studio have a BLE devboard that costs about $2 (which is MUCH cheaper than the BLE devboards popular in custom mechanical keyboard designs), but there isn’t much community attention for this board; there aren’t many (any?) keyboards designed to use this devboard, and there aren’t many people using firmware for it. There is a port of [...]
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