Using VNC to Workaround Pipewire Woes For some time now, various screen capturing functionalities have worked very smoothly on Wayland. Take screenshots for example: grim works very nicely and when used in conjunction with slurp, it can select any region the user wants. Likewise with screenrecording, courtesy of obs-studio with the wlrobs plugin (there are other plugins for other desktops like GNOME). One sore area thus far in my experience has been getting WebRTC screensharing working.

Tools of the Trade I’ve recently made an introductory post on what knowing some bash can do for automating many system tasks. It showed some of what’s possible, but didn’t describe the imperative nature of having the proper ancillary tools in your environment that are crucial to writing quality bash. Beyond your text editor of choice (come to the dark side and use vim or neovim already if you haven’t), you’re going to want these tools.

The Motivation Our political institutions (especially in the United States) have atrophied considerably over the last several decades and aren’t accomplishing their purported goals due to being attacked by elected officials, lack of adaptation to new circumstances, and sometimes a combination of both. This has resulted in profoundly negative ramifications such as increased socioeconomic inequality and political polarization. Trying to change these things through reform within the confines imposed by our existing governance structures proves a highly apocryphal path to rectifying our many problems.