Post of the month: oct 2024

Launch ISO ROMs from file manager Linux/Ubuntu

Launch ISO ROMs from file manager Linux/Ubuntu

Posted on 2nd Oct 2024

Customize your file manager to launch an emulator when you double click an ISO file. Normally, double clicking an ISO file opens a file archive program which is useless! This way we can use our file manager as a very easy way to launch ROMs and our favorite emulators, with just a double click, thu...

Rotate Screen on the fly with XRANDR

Posted on 2nd Oct 2024

First use the XRANDR command to find the monitors connected to your system. Just type xrandr. You will see something like this: Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1680 x 1050, maximum 16384 x 16384 DP-1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) HDMI-1 disconnected (normal left in...

Quick scan of local network...

Posted on 2nd Oct 2024

A quick way to scan your local network for devices, like a Raspberry Pi is the following: sudo arp-scan -l I use it all the time to find my RPis, so i made an alias for that. Added it to your .bash_aliases or .bashrc file like this: alias netscan="sudo arp-scan -l"