I run a 12TB RAID 5 array comprised of three 6TB hard drives. My RAID setup is defined in software, not hardware - which has served me well, as it has been migrated between three installs and two separate sets of server hardware. The raw drives have been added to a MDADM software RAID array, which is encrypted with LUKS, and partitions are managed by LVM.

• linux

I've been messing around with a markdown editor called Formiko. It provides a side-by-side markdown editor, much like Jezra's Markdowner. Why was I fooling around with Formiko if I already had a working solution?

• markdown
• linux
• troubleshooting
• wayland

TL;DR – Jump to the bottom to find the solution I installed Sway, my favorite Wayland compositor, on Debian Trixie several weeks ago. There were bumps along the way, as Wayland does things very differently than the X display server tha I'm used to… but overall I have been pleased with the results. That said, there has been one issue that had been a thorn in my side: my media keys did not work.

• troubleshooting
• sway
• wayland

With the Sway WM, you get a very sparse compositor (the Wayland equivalent of a window manager) and a lot of possibilities. Right out of the box, it is often just configured to open a terminal and navigate between windows and virtual desktops. But in daily use, I do miss a lot of the niceties of a more polished desktop. I usually end up coming up with solutions to these myself, which suits me fine!

• sway
• wayland

Occasionally, due to circumstances entirely within my control, I find myself in an odd situation. Bumping into edge cases, doing things the hard way... for whatever reason, I seem to have a knack for finding the approach with the most exotic issues. What follows, is one of these scenarios.

• linux
• networking
• server
• security
• terminal