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...
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...
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"
Posted on
21st Jul 2024
I have seen a similar implementation of a CD command for bash/linux that used a method to store a kind of DIR bookmarks and i really liked it. For a while i used it, but because it was two seperate aliases and very simple i decided to make my own.
So this is my implementation of an alternative CD...
Posted on
21st Jul 2024
A neat way to get roms, specially for MAME, is using the Archive.org site. WIth a simple search you can find complete sets of rom files for many MAME versions.
You can just click a file and get the complete set, but you can also navigate into the archive/zip file and get individual files/roms. Thi...