Printing on Linux

Printing is one of those things that seems like it should be easy but never is. Anyway, I recently had to get my laptop to connect to a network printer and I want to write the process down in case I need to do it again. The following instructions are written for Arch Linux and assume you have a AUR helper (like yay) installed. ...

2022-03-07 · 3 min · Louis Pearson

Flashing a Better BIOS to Lenovo Thinkpad x220

Recently, I wanted to try out Guix on my laptop. Previously I had installed Antergos because I still needed proprietary firmware for my laptop (an Acer Swift 3) to work properly. However, I heard of an effort to create a nongnu repository for guix, and I was very interested. So I downloaded guix, installed it to a spare flash drive, rebooted and madly hit the F2 button. A lone cursor blinked on my screen....

2019-08-14 · 6 min · Louis Pearson