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By default, NordVPN does not allow users to connect to Tailscale. This is because NordVPN blocks Tailscale traffic. To solve this, you just need to execute the following commands: nordvpn whitelist add subnet 100.64.0.0/10 nordvpn whitelist add subnet fd7a:115c:a1e0::/48 nordvpn whitelist add port 41641 Then, restart the NordVPN connection: nordvpn d nordvpn c US Finally, if you are not connected to Tailscale, then connect to Tailscale: sudo tailscale up --accept-routes --shields-up

xargs is a great command that can help us to run commands from the output of another command. From tldr xargs: Execute a command with piped arguments coming from another command, a file, etc. The input is treated as a single block of text and split into separate pieces on spaces, tabs, newlines and end-of-file. For the examples we’re going to use the seq command: # Print 3 numbers seq 3 # 1 # 2 # 3 # xorgs wil print the numbers "inline" seq 3 | xargs # 1 2 3 # -n will use a max number of arguments per command line seq 3 | xargs -n 2 # 1 2 # 3 # -I is used to replace {} with the argument from the previous command seq 3 | xargs -I {} echo 'number {} printed' # number 1 printed # number 2 printed # number 3 printed # Create 1, 2, 3 folders seq 3 | xargs mkdir # Remove 1, 2, 3 folders seq 3 | xargs rm -rf

The Xbacklight no output have properties message can happen if your hardware has poor support or it can’t be detected properly by the xbacklight utility. This might be fixed by using an xbacklight wrapper called acpilight. acpilight can also be used to control the display and keyboard backlight on modern laptops. First, install the acpilight package: sudo pacman -Syu acpilight Add a udev rule to give access to users in the video group, this is needed because users don’t have permissions to alter sys files by default: ...