TechnoTony Wiki - Tony Tascioglu's personal public knowledge-base! https://wiki.tonytascioglu.com/ 2026-04-12T00:30:39+00:00 https://wiki.tonytascioglu.com/ https://wiki.tonytascioglu.com/_media/wiki/logo.png text/html 2025-12-31T06:06:29+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tonytascioglu.com/articles/amd_sunshine_moonlight_h264_vs_h265?rev=1767161189 Comparing AMD GPU Moonlight+Sunshine Streaming Using H264 AVC vs H265 HEVC To my eyes, in certain conditions, H.264 looks better than H.265 when running Sunshine and Moonlight from my desktop to laptop. Desktop is running a R9 7900X with RX 6700 XT. Laptop is a R5 5650U. text/html 2021-08-09T15:02:48+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tonytascioglu.com/articles/hd_radio_thoughts?rev=1628521368 HD Radio with RTL-SDR As someone who sometimes tinkers with radios, I sometimes just scroll through channels with a cheap r820t2 dongle and gqrx. Intro Spectrum The latest thing I noticed was bars of what is presumably digital signals alongside of some commercial FM radio stations. text/html 2021-08-20T20:55:17+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tonytascioglu.com/articles/linux_audio_explained?rev=1629492917 Linux Audio Essentials This post is also in the form of a video blog. Watch the video first! * Youtube: <https://youtu.be/HxEXMHcwtlI> * Peertube: <https://peertube.tonytascioglu.com/videos/watch/4a6b4e74-a5af-4616-96f4-5d9773033152> The description below is longer then the one on YouTube, which passed the maximum 5000 character limit. The version here has all the full URLs and any extra comments I might add. text/html 2022-03-14T17:40:33+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tonytascioglu.com/articles/linux_dirty_pipe_vulnerability?rev=1647279633 CVE-2022-0847 - Dirty Pipe Vulnerability in Linux Introduction The Linux Dirty Pipe vulnerability, also known as CVE-2022-0847 is major a vulnerability first discovered near the end of February 2022 which affects Linux kernel versions 5.8 and above. The Dirty Pipe vulnerability is considered severe since there aren't workarounds (besides upgrading to a patched version of the Linux kernel) and it allows local privilege escalation allowing users to write to files they don't have write access to … text/html 2022-04-12T18:57:48+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tonytascioglu.com/articles/linux_gui_systems_overview?rev=1649789868 Please note: This is one of my earlier posts from my blog (Jan 2019), and some stuff is missing from it, but it's here as a reference. I also need to break apart the long sections. How Do GUI Systems Work In Linux? A common point of confusion on GNU/Linux systems is the display manager vs desktop environment, and what they both do, and how they all fit in with xorg or Wayland. text/html 2025-05-31T09:06:16+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tonytascioglu.com/articles/playing_mod_tracker_music?rev=1748682376 Playing .mod tracker music The sound of 16 bit. When programmers made music. From the era when you had CPU power to just play PCM samples. Not enough CPU to decompress a full file, but not enough storage to store a full PCM track. Enter mod/xm3 files. text/html 2025-01-03T05:38:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tonytascioglu.com/articles/proxmox_upgrade_reinstall_migration_guide?rev=1735882729 Tony's Proxmox Reinstall and Migration Guide Use case There are many guides for doing “migrations” or “reinstalls” of proxmox online, sometimes with backups, sometimes with live copies etc. My needs I have an existing Proxmox 7 server running with a single boot SSD using LVM for PVE. I have additional SSDs for hosting my LXC and VM images, and hard drives that are bind-mounted into the LXCs where bulk storage is needed (eg: Immich and Nextcloud data directories). text/html 2022-04-12T18:56:22+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tonytascioglu.com/articles/transition_to_gnu_linux?rev=1649789782 Please note: This is initially from my Blog, published December 2018! Some stuff has changed, but I'll keep this here as reference. How I First Transitioned to GNU/Linux Introduction For the past several years, my system OS of choice has been GNU/Linux. I’ve gone from Ubuntu, to Debian, to Fedora, to OpenSUSE and finally, Arch. Through these years, I’ve also gone through many desktop environments, including Unity, GNOME, KDE, Xfce, i3, then back to KDE. This post start to outline my experienc… text/html 2023-07-02T15:44:54+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tonytascioglu.com/articles/upgrading_thinkpad_t14_gen2_amd_screen?rev=1688312694 Thinkpad T14 Gen2 AMD eDP Screen/Panel Upgrade If you read Thinkpad T14 Gen2 AMD, I hated the screen they shipped with the T14, and thought it was a disgrace for a “premium” laptop. Well, it annoyed me so much that I started to research how to upgrade the screen of the laptop. text/html 2021-06-11T19:47:20+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tonytascioglu.com/articles/wd_sn550_linux?rev=1623440840 WD SN550 I/O Error on Linux Many people are switching over to M.2 NVMe drives. NVMe has been supported in the Linux kernel for quite some time. The Sandisk WD SN550 is among the cheaper M.2 drives, without a DRAM cache but utilizing a custom SanDisk text/html 2024-07-07T22:24:15+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tonytascioglu.com/articles/weird_usb_bluetooth_music_receivers?rev=1720391055 Weird USB Bluetooth Music receivers My USB powered bluetooth audio receiver STARTED SHOWING UP AS A MASS STORAGE device. I DIDN'T EVEN KNOW THAT THING HAD DATA LINES?!? Did I get rubber-duckied by a BLUETOOTH RECEIVER? WAIT YOU CAN MOUNT THE STORAGE DEVICE?!? text/html 2023-12-20T07:39:12+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tonytascioglu.com/articles/what_is_wrong_with_the_2023_league_worlds_opening_ceremony?rev=1703057952 What is wrong with the 2023 League worlds opening ceremony? The original league worlds opening ceremony video from this year has very many technical quirks. Here is what I noticed and spent a a few (prolly a dozen) hours fixing. * The audio on the YouTube upload is unexplicably in mono and sounds notably worse than the Twitch livestream which was in stereo.