Overcome the ibus daemon autostart after installing Zoom

After installing the Zoom app I found it quite annoying to have that small applet in the systray bar just after each restart, And even more annoying I haven’t been able to find a clear method to stop the autoloading of the related daemon as I would do for whatever else SystemD daemon.

openSUSE 15.3 to 15.4 upgrade notes

In a previous article I have shown how to upgrade a distro using zypper and the recently released plugin zypper-upgradedistro, but some issues might always happen for a specific version, that’s why I collected all the changes and the tweaks I applied switching from openSUSE Leap 15.3 to 15.4 during and after the installation process.

The media couldn't be loaded error

After an upgrade or an installation from scratch, we might notice a weird behavior while navigating among the streaming websites: some videos play well, others raise an error like:

The media couldn’t be loaded, either because the server or network failed or because the format is not supported

openSUSE 15.2 to 15.3 upgrade notes

In a previous article I have shown how to upgrade a distro using zypper but after the first reboot some issue might always happen, that’s why I collected all the changes and the tweaks I applied switching from openSUSE 15.2 to 15.3.

Be more productive with Bash aliases

Aliases are one of the most interesting features provided by a Bash shell, and probably the last to be regularly adopted. Usually, they are intended as a way to create shortcuts to execute the most used commands followed by the options that are not assumed by default from the command itself. However, there is a more appealing way to write them that boost our productivity when executing either frequent or infrequent tasks.