By ValkaTR , 16 October 2026

woah. this is insane.
i wanted to learn more about secret space program and watched interviews with coorey good, bob lazar, joseph powell, patrick jackson, daryl james, randy cramer, alex colier, penny bradley, john whitberg, bill cooper, johan fritz, william tompkins, and many more

randy cramer said, if full disclosure happens today, they predicted, that 25% of all earth population will kill their families and themselves due to ontological shock

By ValkaTR , 5 September 2026

Frooxius recently introduced video streaming functionality in VR, but it's broken on Linux:

Currently not functional on graphical Linux client due to issues with MediaMTX under Steam Pressure Vessel (see this issue for more info: https://github.com/Yellow-Dog-Man/Resonite-Issues/issues/6863)

fortunately there's a workaround.

configure OBS first, choose custom stream option and type server: rtmp://127.0.0.1:1935/Resonite

By ValkaTR , 31 July 2026
Video file

valkatr_-_tanec_degu.mp4 (4,9 MiB)

By ValkaTR , 31 July 2026

systemd has ability to manage user units. all the user units will be placed in ~/.config/systemd/user/. this service autostarts screen:

~/.config/systemd/user/screen.service

[Unit]
Description=GNU screen
After=network.target

[Service]
Type=simple
ExecStart=/usr/bin/screen -DmS autoscreen -c ~/.screenrc_auto
ExecStop=/usr/bin/screen -S autoscreen -X quit

[Install]
WantedBy=default.target

screen options on start:

By ValkaTR , 11 May 2025

Lutris is a special gaming launcher that handles all the trouble with hardware accelerating libraries and other configurations. It is simple to use. Just install Lutris and Wine with your favorite package manager (Arch Linux):

pacman -S lutris wine

Press "Add Game" (+) on the left top corner:

By ValkaTR , 3 May 2025

when starting element-desktop for the first time it offers to login to matrix.org

click continue and browser opens with login, you login, then you allow access to the account for the app by clicing 'continue', but nothing happens!

the problem is that URI scheme isn't recognized, because someone forgot to register it. to fix this edit '/usr/share/applications/io.element.Element.desktop' file:

By ValkaTR , 3 May 2025

oh no. my favorite xfce thing has memory leak D:

according to gugle it something has to do with nvidia drivers. it happens on both proprietary drivers and open source drivers. temporary workaround is to disable compositioning in advanced window manager settings.

xfwm4 memory leak