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Getting that pesky 3D acceleration error/warning when you try running your VMs in VMware Workstation / Player on Linux but all your other 3D apps/games work fine? This issue was giving me gray hairs the past few months after suddenly appearing when I did a random system update (pacman -Syu , yes I know it’s stupid to blindly update on Arch but still…), could not find anything related to the problem on Arch forums or anywhere else, except for several years old forum threads leading to nothing that would fix my problems (believe me I tried a lot of them), until I for some reason stumbled upon this info and fix that I had not found earlier 😀 (I suppose my google-fu is getting rusty) For some reason it seems VMware blacklists the Mesa drivers, so especially everyone running a laptop with Optimus graphics (using Bumblebee with optirun / primusrun) […]
Got a bit bored and decided to secure $HOME on my ultrabook since I bring it with me everywhere so I encrypted it. Was ALOT easier than I thought it’d be, even tho the Arch Wiki eCryptFS article did seem a bit frightening and complex. Luckily I found enough info from articles linked in that article and on google to make it go just about 100% painless 🙂 Here is what I sourced for info/guidance: Arch Wiki: eCryptFS anrxc blog/article: eCryptFS $HOME Makeuseof: How To Encrypt Your Home Folder After Ubuntu Installation [Linux] I couldn’t focus my brain enough to write the procedure down here and these should suffice for others too 🙂 The procedures should be about the same for most distros, tho package names and file locations might differ slightly. (I did it on my Arch install with info based on both Arch and Ubuntu) Now I got […]