Fedora 25 on nagg.eu

Sony WF-1000XM4 on Linux Fedora 35

Thu, 23 Dec 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Last week I converted myself to wireless earphones.
I don’t consider myself an audiophile, I don’t have any deep knowledge of music but I kinda enjoy listening to it.
Because of this I have had a few decent pairs of headphones, earphones and monitor speakers in my life; they all shared a thing: cables.
Last week I pulled the trigger and bought myself my very first pair of wireless earphones: Sony WF-1000XM4.
The main idea was to use them with the phone and maybe with work issued laptop which is running Windows, I did not even thought they would work with my Linux laptop.
But to my biggest surprise they just work on Linux, no fiddling with bluetoothhcl or btmgmt; just enable BT in Gnome settings, long press for 5 seconds on both earphones to activate pairing mode and wait for them to pair.

AMD Ryzen on Linux

Sat, 17 Jun 2017 10:52:37 +0000

Finally we have some new hardware worth writing of and also spending money on.
I have been using an AMD Ryzen 7 1700X based build for some time now and so far I am really liking it, the CPU is marvelous considering the pricetag and felt like a worthwhile upgrade from the Xeon E3-1241v3 I was using before; it is basically twice the cores clocked at pretty much the same speed. Awesome.
There are a couple of points worth spending some words on tho.

Handbrake, compile from source on Fedora 25

Tue, 13 Jun 2017 14:03:27 +0000

Handbrake cannot be installed from default repos nor rpmfusion, to get it on Fedora 25 there are two other options:

use negativo17 third party repository;
compile from source.
The first option is, but that is my opinion, subpar because I don’t trust third party repositories; option two is what is left.
Download the source code from git and install some dependencies:

$ git clone https://github.com/HandBrake/HandBrake.git
$ sudo dnf install dbus-glib-devel gstreamer1-devel gstreamer1-plugins-base-devel intltool libgudev1-devel libnotify-devel webkitgtk3-devel libgudev-devel dbus-glib-devel webkitgtk3-devel gstream-devel libnotify-devel gstreamer1-devel gstreamer1-plugins-base-devel lame-devel opus-devel fribidi-devel libass-devel libtheora-devel x264-devel nasm

Like I do with every other program I like to keep as much up to date as possible, I have a small script to take care of compilation, installation and upgrade processes for me.