Linux

Introduction Given what’s happening in the world right now, I really want to minimize my reliance on US-based services and Big Tech (“Les GAFAM” for French readers), even more so than a few months ago. Here’s a quick summary of what I use and do in an effort to become independent from those corporations. Almost everything mentioned is FOSS (Free and Open-Source Software). This is mainly addressed to tech-savvy people, but it can give you some ideas to get started if you’re not one (yet) :). Each solution will be attributed a “pain level”, which rates how painful the setup was for me, with my knowledge at the time. It’s therefore entirely subjective and is mainly just for fun. Feeling interested but lost? Feel free to reach out! See about page. ...

Here’s a little systemd unit and script to disable ACPI-registered wakeup sources automatically at startup. It’s quick and dirty, but has the advantage of being set-and-forget. No more waking up your computer by accident with your mouse, keyboard or otherwise. The power button still works, though. https://git.ampho.fr/anhminhpho/disable-acpi-wakeup The systemd unit calls this bit of code, which disables all wakeup triggers associated with currently connected peripherals: for d in $(cat /proc/acpi/wakeup | grep enabled | awk '{print $1}') do echo $d > /proc/acpi/wakeup done Instructions to install are available in the Git repo. Tested on Debian 12 and 13, but it probably works on most distros. ...

While writing my latest post, I realized the number of images might make loading quite slow, and that’s when I found out about jpegoptim and Oxipng. Those tools can, losslessly, significantly reduce the size of JPEG and PNG files (among others) thanks to black magic operations involving the Huffman algorithm, as well as stripping metadata. There are a number of GUIs that make use of those utilites. I personally like OptiImage: 72% decrease in size from a digital camera. Not bad! ...