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Unhinged ThinkPad Repair Guide

Anthony Wang — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 19:48:05 -0400

In this post, I’ll explain how to replace the hinges on the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Yoga Gen 6 convertible laptop, since I couldn’t find any guides online about it.

But first, we need to talk about canvases. You know, the kind that artists use.

Kublai: Boring! Are you doing SEO spam now too?

Hey, if you just want the repair guide, click here to skip to the bottom of this post. Anyways…

PAM Authentication Without Access to /etc/shadow

Anthony Wang — Thu, 09 May 2024 13:20:14 -0400

Hello and welcome back to extremely obscure solutions to extremely obscure Linux problems! PAM is the thing in Linux that handles authentication whenever you log into your machine. Forgejo has a nice feature where you can compile it with PAM support and use PAM for authentication so you don’t have to manually add users to your Forgejo instance if they already have a normal Linux account on your machine. However, pam_unix.so, the PAM plugin used for authenticating Linux users, can only check if a password is correct for the user running the process. Basically, if you run Forgejo as the forgejo user, you can only verify passwords for the forgejo user. Two simple solutions: run Forgejo as root (please please please don’t) and give Forgejo access to the /etc/shadow file which stores password hashes. The second option is less bad but still worrisome because you’re basically handing out the crown jewels to all the code in Forgejo!

ActivityPub Eats Your Brain!

Anthony Wang — Thu, 19 Jan 2023 17:43:08 +0000

What’s in a name?

Close your eyes and imagine you’re inside a dimly lit, energetic pub filled with unicorns, giant centipedes, and paper airplanes. Actually, please don’t close your eyes, since then you won’t be able to read this. But anyways, you’re completely puzzled by what’s going on, so you go up to a unicorn named Billiam and ask him, “Hey! Where am I, and what’s up with all the paper airplane chaos?”

How to Hibernate

Anthony Wang — Mon, 04 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000

If you dual-boot, hibernation is a necessity. Need to use the other OS for a few minutes? No problem, just hibernate, and when you boot your original OS again, you’ll be back where you left off.

However… It’s 2021 and there still isn’t an easy way to enable hibernation on Linux. Sad.

Anyways, here’s a rough outline of the procedure using a swap file:

Make a swap file

You generally want your swap file to be at least as big as your RAM, and if you do a lot of swap-intensive stuff, you might even need a bigger swap file.

WSL 2 GNOME Desktop

Anthony Wang — Thu, 30 Jul 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Think Xfce looks dated? Want a conventional Ubuntu experience? This tutorial will guide you through installing Ubuntu’s default desktop environment, GNOME.

GNOME is one of the more complex — and that means more difficult to run — desktop environments, so for years people couldn’t figure out how to run it on WSL 2. On WSL 1 it could only run using very complicated methods that didn’t transfer to well WSL 2. Any forlorn attempts to run it on WSL 2 only resulted in a smoldering heap of error messages.