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My name is Viktor. I’m a Swedish software engineer and hypertext enjoyer. Marginalia is a website I’ve built. It’s really almost a bunch of websites on a common theme. If you find yourself clicking a link and ending up on a page that looks completely different, that’s just how things are.

🌎 Marginalia Search on GitHub
🦤 @MarginaliaNu on Twitter
🦤 @marginalia@mastodon.social
📺 @ViktorLofgren on YouTube
✉️ kontakt@marginalia.nu on Email

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2026-09-18 Turning off RGB automatically on Linux in misc

Many computers light up like christmas trees with RGB LEDs, they stick these things on everything and on Linux it may not be obvious how to turn this visual nuisance off.

How to turn this visual nuisance off:

1. Install openrgb with apt-get or pacman or whatever.

2. Verify that openrgb -m off turns off the lights.

3. Create a file /etc/systemd/system/openrgb-off.service containing

[Unit]
Description=Leave the x-mas tree aesthetics in CP2077 please
After=multi-user.target

[Service]
Type=oneshot
ExecStart=/usr/bin/openrgb -m off
RemainAfterExit=yes

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

4. Enable the .service

$ sudo systemctl daemon-reload
$ sudo systemctl enable --now openrgb-off.service

System should now disable LEDs on startup.

2026-07-25 Your harddrive is probably full in log

I currently have 17 GB free space on my root drive, out of 0.47 TB usable space, that’s 3% free space.

I also have an additional harddrive installed, 12 TB, it has 140 GB free, which may seem a lot but it’s actually only about 1%.

Your harddrive is probably pretty full too. Maybe not as crammed, but odds are it’s probably closer to full than empty. I ran a poll on mastodon and approximately half of the respondents, counting 81 people in total, had a harddrive that was more than 75% full.

2026-07-22 Unranked, systemd, crawls in log

There’s been some changes to Marginalia Search:

• Migrated to systemd from docker
• New unranked query endpoint
• Wide domains got their own index for faster crawls

In brief, this has removed a lot of operational headaches, reduced expensive queries leaving more computational power for the rest, and cut crawl times in half.

Let’s tackle them in some order.

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We have docker at home

The system has been migrated off docker compose, and onto bare systemd in production. This has been successful, and solved a number of issues.

2026-05-14 LinkedIn fanfiction in log

I was on the bus on my way to an important business meeting about the exponential growth of my MRR, when suddenly I noticed some troublemakers were hassling an old lady. Their caps were on backwards, their clothes were baggy, and probably thought the grindset was about skateboarding.

I had to act. I opened my macbook and showed Claude what was happening. “Claude, we gotta do something!”, I said. “You’re absolutely right!”, Claude affirmed in a calm and confident font, and thanks to --dangerously-skip-permissions, it had started coding before I had even thought about what to do. It was “cannoodling”, which I think is one of the good ones.

2026-04-26 Maybe you should learn something in log

You can learn new things. Pixel art, touch typing, 3d modelling, music, calligraphy, wood working, knitting, a language. Whatever is practical and calls to you, you can learn.

In the long term, learning new things is fun and makes life richer in ways you can’t even imagine, and it’s a time investment that will pay dividends for life as these skills never really go away. There are even social aspects, as you’ll quite literally become a more interesting person to talk to.

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