So I tried to find a good how-to for integrating steam big picture into my mythbuntu based mythtv installation. It turns out the change is fairly trivial. All you have to do is add a button entry to /usr/share/mythtv/themes/defaultmenu/mainmenu.xml like the below diff.

I recently spent more time than was necessary trying to figure out the “snappy” way of enabling wifi on my Raspberry Pi 2. After reading through the documentation, I was expecting to find an elegant snap or framework. Instead, in recent images all that’s required is to add to the following to /etc/interfaces.d/wlan0.

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