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Trying to get Ubuntu.
Spending hours every day tinkering with linux desktops and servers.
Trying to decide on which fresh install's (Modicia O.S. or MX 25) I've performed to write about on my Linux Blog.
The Intel CPU manual has 5342 pages, learning assembly is very far from easy, but I don't think I'll give up.
My Don' plans been foiled again! Got to get another Mac due to the damage on it. Thankfully they took it back. Just gotta find another..
Turns out my school has a linux Pathway. Yippie! now I can play around with int and not get in trouble!
My plans have been Foiled! The Mac Arrived damaged right in the middle of the screen in transit. Now there's a black bar in the middle of the screen. I Guess if I install Alshi, might as well throw a window manager like hyper land or something on there as it's stuck in a permanent split screen (Till' I get the screen replaced /w Chassis.) lol.
Picked up a Havit KB496L mechanical Bluetooth keyboard for 50 kr
Today I grabbed a used Havit KB496L mechanical keyboard for only 50 Danish kroner, which is roughly €6.7 / $7.8 USD. For that price, it was hard to say no.
The keyboard itself works, but getting it working properly on Linux was a bit of a pain.
I am running Kubuntu on my gaming PC, and at first Bluetooth looked like it was working. The service was running, BlueZ saw my Bluetooth controller, and
But the keyboard did not show up in normal scanning.
The keyboard reacted to the pairing commands, though:
The keyboard started blinking, and my phone could see it, so I knew the keyboard itself was not dead.
The useful breakthrough was using
That finally showed the keyboard:
After that, I went back into
Once paired, Linux reported it correctly:
So yes, it works now.
The annoying part was that it did not clearly appear at first in the normal Bluetooth UI or basic
For 50 kr, I cannot really complain. It was cheap, mechanical, and now it works on Linux. But this was definitely one of those classic Linux moments where the hardware works, the system works, but you still have to dig through the stack manually before everything finally connects.
Today I grabbed a used Havit KB496L mechanical keyboard for only 50 Danish kroner, which is roughly €6.7 / $7.8 USD. For that price, it was hard to say no.
The keyboard itself works, but getting it working properly on Linux was a bit of a pain.
I am running Kubuntu on my gaming PC, and at first Bluetooth looked like it was working. The service was running, BlueZ saw my Bluetooth controller, and
bluetoothctl show reported:
Code:
Powered: yes
Pairable: yes
Discovering: yesBut the keyboard did not show up in normal scanning.
The keyboard reacted to the pairing commands, though:
Code:
Fn + Q = Bluetooth slot
Fn + P held for a few seconds = pairing modeThe keyboard started blinking, and my phone could see it, so I knew the keyboard itself was not dead.
The useful breakthrough was using
btmgmt instead of only relying on bluetoothctl:
Code:
sudo btmgmt findThat finally showed the keyboard:
Code:
DC:2C:26:31:15:94 type BR/EDR
name KB496LAfter that, I went back into
bluetoothctl and paired it manually by address:
Code:
bluetoothctl
power on
agent KeyboardOnly
default-agent
pairable on
pair DC:2C:26:31:15:94
trust DC:2C:26:31:15:94
connect DC:2C:26:31:15:94
info DC:2C:26:31:15:94Once paired, Linux reported it correctly:
Code:
Name: KB496L
Icon: input-keyboard
Paired: yes
Bonded: yes
Trusted: yes
Connected: yes
UUID: Human Interface DeviceSo yes, it works now.
The annoying part was that it did not clearly appear at first in the normal Bluetooth UI or basic
bluetoothctl scan. It looked like the dongle or Linux Bluetooth was broken, but the lower-level scan showed the keyboard as a BR/EDR device with the name KB496L.For 50 kr, I cannot really complain. It was cheap, mechanical, and now it works on Linux. But this was definitely one of those classic Linux moments where the hardware works, the system works, but you still have to dig through the stack manually before everything finally connects.
Playing around with hyprland + dms, I need to read docs still. If I do hop on hyprland, I will switch to fedora or arch then, better compatibility 
After all the work on the homelab lately, I decided it was finally time to put my big boy panties on and drop VMware on the workstation like a sack of rotten potatoes and go QEMU/KVM+VirtManager. Old ESXi habits die hard I suppose?
Get outta here Mr.525!
Audiobook Shelf Manager My Linux Audiobook Gallery, Editor, and Tracker
Project Page • GitHub Repo
I built my own Linux audiobook manager because I could not find anything that handled local audiobook collections the way I wanted.
Most audiobook software focuses on playback.
Mine focuses on managing the whole collection.
This is not just an audiobook player. It is a full audiobook library tool built for people who actually maintain their own files, folders, covers, metadata, series progress, and review tracking.
What it can do
- Audiobook gallery — browse authors and series visually with cover tiles.
- Metadata editor — edit MP3 tags directly from the app.
- Cover manager — use folder covers, artist covers, sidecar covers, and embedded artwork.
- File renamer — rename tracks cleanly based on metadata.
- Read / watched tracker — track what has already been read or listened to.
- Ownership tracker — see what you own and what is missing from a series.
- Goodreads tracker — track whether Goodreads has been updated.
- Audible review tracker — track whether an Audible review is done.
- Multi-folder library support — scan multiple audiobook folders into one combined gallery.
- Portable tracking — the newer local version can store tracking data inside MP3 files using custom ID3 fields.
Why I think this is different
There are audiobook players.
There are tag editors.
There are media servers.
There are file renaming tools.
But I wanted one Linux tool that could handle the actual work of managing an audiobook collection:
- Covers
- Metadata
- Clean filenames
- Series progress
- Read status
- Ownership status
- Goodreads status
- Audible review status
- Multiple library folders
That is why I made Audiobook Shelf Manager.
It is not made to be another media player. It is made to be a library-control tool.
Current status
This is still alpha software.
The GitHub version may not always be as new as the version I currently have installed on my own OS, but the core idea is already working.
For my own use, this is honestly the best audiobook manager I have found — because I had to build it myself.
Links
Project page:
https://kibasnowpaw.blog/2026/05/16/audiobook-shelf-manager/
GitHub:
https://github.com/kibasnowpaw/AudiobookShelfManager
If people are interested, check it out, give feedback, star it, open an issue, or just let me know.
If enough people care about it, I may put more time into cleaning it up and pushing the newer version properly.
#Linux #Audiobooks #AudiobookManager #AudiobookShelfManager #Python #Qt #PySide6 #Flatpak #OpenSource #FOSS #MetadataEditor #LinuxApps #LocalFirst #KibaSnowpaw
Winding up with a MBP M1 14 inch with 16 gb ram, 512 GB ssd. Plan to put Linux/Mac dual boot (hopefully)
A couple days with Bazzite. I'm impressed how well it performs. But I don't like how the terminal is restricted. Too early to render judgement in general.
Drove 16 miles on Poconos mountains on private road. Just turned 16!
Yesterday I had my first kernel panic... ever... since I joined Linux. That is like, years. A testament to Debian's reliability. A bad update made the system unstable.
Dungeon Keeper has always been one of my favorite games.
I just installed it again on Linux, this time using KeeperFX, and honestly it runs the way it should. That is always the best feeling with old games. Not just “it launches,” not “it works after five hacks and half the game is broken,” but actually playable.
Dungeon Keeper is still one of those games that feels different from almost anything else. It is not just a strategy game where you build rooms underground. You are managing a living dungeon full of creatures with bad attitudes. You dig out rooms, build your economy, attract monsters, train them, slap imps when they are being useless, defend against heroes, and slowly turn the map into your own evil little kingdom.
What makes it special for me is the personality. The game has that old Bullfrog humor and atmosphere that modern games almost never get right. It is dark, funny, weird, and still has that “evil manager simulator” feeling where half the game is strategy and the other half is just controlled chaos.
I played through the first four levels again and streamed it. It took me almost two hours, which says a lot about the gameplay. Dungeon Keeper is not really a game you rush through if you are actually playing it properly. You build, expand, train, defend, explore, and sometimes just sit there planning what part of the dungeon to improve next.
KeeperFX also adds a lot more than I expected. It is not just a compatibility fix. It has extra missions and improvements too, so this is probably the best way to play Dungeon Keeper today if you still love the original.
My plan is to go through the original campaign again, then maybe move into the extra missions after that. This is one of those games I do not just want installed for nostalgia. I actually want to complete it again.
First 4 levels live stream, about 2 hours:
I just installed it again on Linux, this time using KeeperFX, and honestly it runs the way it should. That is always the best feeling with old games. Not just “it launches,” not “it works after five hacks and half the game is broken,” but actually playable.
Dungeon Keeper is still one of those games that feels different from almost anything else. It is not just a strategy game where you build rooms underground. You are managing a living dungeon full of creatures with bad attitudes. You dig out rooms, build your economy, attract monsters, train them, slap imps when they are being useless, defend against heroes, and slowly turn the map into your own evil little kingdom.
What makes it special for me is the personality. The game has that old Bullfrog humor and atmosphere that modern games almost never get right. It is dark, funny, weird, and still has that “evil manager simulator” feeling where half the game is strategy and the other half is just controlled chaos.
I played through the first four levels again and streamed it. It took me almost two hours, which says a lot about the gameplay. Dungeon Keeper is not really a game you rush through if you are actually playing it properly. You build, expand, train, defend, explore, and sometimes just sit there planning what part of the dungeon to improve next.
KeeperFX also adds a lot more than I expected. It is not just a compatibility fix. It has extra missions and improvements too, so this is probably the best way to play Dungeon Keeper today if you still love the original.
My plan is to go through the original campaign again, then maybe move into the extra missions after that. This is one of those games I do not just want installed for nostalgia. I actually want to complete it again.
First 4 levels live stream, about 2 hours: