Moving to Codeberg I finally decided to move my active repos to Codeberg. Although this has been at the back my mind for a while, especially after reading GiveUpGitHub (I don’t agree with every statement made there) what lastly made me get over my laziness of the repo migrations1 was the nice writeup from Geoffrey Huntley called Visual Studio Code is designed to fracture. There is not much to add and I think everything I wanted to bring as reasons for this migration can be found in the...

My Ultimate Home Server Workstation My notes on installing Proxmox as a home-lab server Table of Contents Requirements Proxmox has it all Installation and setting up Install gnome-desktop Add new user for the desktop environment Make the user a Proxmox admin Add USB bootable devices As a host hardware passthrough As a host USB device passed through to the VM Add hot pluggable USB support Add some SPICE to the server Install Gnome Desktop 40 I...

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Since finding anything on these sort of procedures is very hard, I decided to share my experience. I am not responsible for any damage to any device caused by doing the following. The Oxygen OS version I used this on was 10.0.10, other version may require extra steps. Oxygen OS is one of the nicest skins over Android. It also supports several device-related function in Oneplus devices which many of custom roms fail to utilize due to closed source of the code that Oneplus uses to control...

Why I switched from VScode to Emacs A quick comparison between VScode and Doom Emacs Table of Contents Intro Shortcomings of VS code and how Emacs can fill them Performace Mouse or keyboard (or both)? One thing that cannot be replaced by any extension in VS code, VIM or any other editor: Emacs' Org mode Licensing Shortcomings of Emacs for first-time user Help and community Learning curve Integrated development environment Final words Intro If...

Table of Contents 1. lynx 2. grep 3. wget I used to have a python script that scrapes a given web page and downloads all the files with a given extension from the page. Today, not being able to find my script anymore, I tried to do a similar thing using bash only and interestingly, I was able to do a similar thing using a one-liner. Here is how it works: 1 lynx Lynx is a hero of dumping web pages: lynx -dump https://hadi.timachi.com/ 2 grep We pipe...

Exploring conformational dynamics and equlibria of ABC transporters using EPR techniques This is a web version of my PhD thesis. Some copyrighted publications have been omitted and replaced with link to the corresponding webpage. The thesis is published under GPL v2 license. This page might be a bit heavy to load since all figures are of svg format and there are many equations. ...

Table of Contents 1. Open camera android app 2. Default camera app 3. Making a video from photos 3.1. Reorder photos (optional) 3.2. Resize (optional) 3.3. Brightness and contrast adjustments and normalization (optional) 3.4. Watermark (optional) 3.5. Make a video 3.5.1. No recompression of jpgs 3.5.2. Using recompression 3.5.3. Lossless 3.6. Compress the video Making a timelapse video out of several photos taken with a specific delay is quite easy in GNU/Linux....

Although I developed and designed many websites since 2004, I never had a personal website/weblog. That is partially due to the fact that I am not a fan of writing. But there are times that I find something important which might be helpful for others, too. This website is supposed to serve that purpose. Therefore, this is officially my first blog post ever. About this website This Django website was originally based on Oscar Forner's website but I have changed a lot, both in the front end and...