Short, practical notes on problems I ran into and how I solved them. Think of it as my public notebook.
Use Hugo archetypes to auto-generate consistent frontmatter when creating new content with hugo new.
Check NVMe drive health on Linux with a single smartctl command — percentage used, temperature, and power-on hours.
Brother scanners aren't detected on Fedora out of the box. Install brscan5 and register the scanner by IP to get it working over WiFi.
Dual GPU setup (AMD + NVIDIA) causes hard freezes after suspend on Fedora. Fix it by configuring NVIDIA's power management systemd services.
Ollama falls back to CPU on Fedora without NVIDIA drivers and CUDA. Install them via RPM Fusion and wait for akmods to build before rebooting.
Focusrite Scarlett interfaces work on Linux out of the box with PipeWire — no proprietary drivers or Focusrite Control needed.
Auto-mount NTFS drives on Fedora at boot using fstab with ntfs3, so they're available without clicking in GNOME Files each session.
OpenRGB can't access ASUS AURA hardware without root. Add udev rules for USB and i2c to fix permissions.
Terrible SSD performance on Windows? Check if your power plan has NVMe power saving enabled — switching to High Performance can fix 200ms response times.