Automated daily Arch Linux updates with rollback (no btrfs required)
Running pacman -Syu every day gets old. But skipping updates for weeks on a rolling-release distro makes the eventual update scarier. I wanted something in between: the machine updates itself at 4 AM, reboots if it worked, and yells at me on login if it didn’t. I also wanted a way to undo the last update without btrfs snapshots. My machines run XFS, so that’s not an option. ...
Fix xrdp black screen with KDE Plasma Wayland on Arch Linux
I wanted to RDP into my CachyOS machine through Apache Guacamole and get a separate Plasma session, not screen sharing, so nothing shows up on the physical monitors. xrdp is supposed to handle this by spinning up an X11 Plasma session on a new display. Instead I got a black screen with a lonely cursor. Sometimes the KDE splash would flash first, then black. I burned a couple hours on this before figuring out the actual cause. ...