Expand Hyper-V disk after creation in Linux guest system

Just short note about it, as from time to time I need to increase volume size. Part 1 - In host system Get list of VMs Get-VM Turn off the VM. $vmName = "YourVirtualMachineName" Stop-VM -Name "$vmName" Expand the disk Get-VHD -VMName $vmName Resize-VHD -Path "VHD_PATH" -SizeBytes 100GB Check the changes Get-VHD -VMName $vmName Start the VM & connect to VM Start-VM -Name "$vmName" Connect-VM -VMName "$vmName" Part 2 - Inside VM Install guest tools for VM (if it wasn’t done before) ...

July 31, 2023 · 1 min · 158 words · Me

Remote journal - A year after

One interesting article about experience with replacing daily meetings to daily journals from Marco “Efesto” Polita. Here it’s just copy-pasted article about his thoughts, which I found very interesting for myself. How do you keep people connected if they don’t see each other at the daily? This concern was present also at the introduction of the journal and is not related specifically to removing the remote daily itself but rather to the whole remote working approach. ...

July 28, 2023 · 7 min · 1402 words · Me

Why remote daily awful - Try remote journal

One interesting article about daily meetings from Marco “Efesto” Polita. Here it’s just copy-pasted article about his thoughts, which I found very interesting for myself. Recently I’ve started leading a small engineering team of 4. This team was formed anew and in a remote working context and given the novelty of it, I took the occasion for rethinking some team-working approaches including the infamous remote daily. For having a common ground, the remote daily is the transposition, in form of a video call, of the classic daily or standup. ...

July 27, 2023 · 6 min · 1093 words · Me

Steamdeck: Tweaks & Tricks

Setting up password for sudo Just run “passwd” command to setup the password, it will be needed for future installations passwd Install Heroic Games Launcher as alternative for Epic Games Store Switch to “Desktop Mode” Open “Discover” app to find application Install “Heroic Games Launcher” Install ProtonUp-Qt utility to control Proton versions Switch to “Desktop Mode” Open “Discover” app to find application Install “ProtonUp-Qt” After installation you will be able to setup Proton version for different games launchers (Steam/Heroic) TODO: Transfer save data for Heroic games Install decky-loader Switch to “Desktop Mode” Open “Konsole” app Run this command (it will ask for sudo password): curl -L https://github.com/SteamDeckHomebrew/decky-installer/releases/latest/download/install_release.sh | sh Return to “Game Mode” Some of useful plugins Controller Tools CSS Loader PowerTools System Toolbox vibrantDeck Install CryoUtilities tweaks And last, but not least - CryoUtilities ...

March 6, 2023 · 1 min · 188 words · Me

Полезные однострочники - часть 6

1. Остановить приложение по имени и запустить снова в MacOS (работает для Amethyst, который очень часто вылетает в последних релизах в многомониторной конфигурации) osascript -e 'quit app "Amethyst"'; open -a "Amethyst" 2. Конвертировать JFIF файлы в каталоге в PNG (используется convert из пакета ImageMagick) for i in *.jfif; do convert "$i" "${i%.*}.png"; done 3. Установить/Обновить все плагины в Vim (для установленного Vundle) vim +PluginInstall +qall vim +PluginUpdate +qall 4. Удалить пустые и закомментированные строки в файле ...

March 5, 2023 · 1 min · 134 words · Me