Around April 2023, I decided to look for a new Linux Desktop Environment for my personal void linux. So I tried these distros:
I have been programming for about 40 years. Going through a lot of different languages and programming paradims.
Lately most of my programming is done in:
So lately, after hitting some bugs in a recent update of the MATE desktop …
A few months ago I extensibly modify picowiki and creeated NanoWiki.
After using NanoWiki for a few months, the code became somewhat of an spaghetti mess. This has to do that picowiki was designed as a single file, single class application with Plugin extension. Since every change went to a …
For windows, you can use WinPython. I prefer to use this instead of …
The idea here is that we use a Desktop PC for developing/debugging Raspberry Pi set-ups using qemu for emulating Rasperrby Pi.
qemu currently supports the following configurations:
For a while I was using TabletClock with old tablets. But this has not been updated in a while. I was thinking of writing my own version until I found WallPanel.
Essentially it is purposely built web-browser with special features which makes it possible to use it to replaces TabletClock …
For years I have been using VNC for my remote desktop needs. This works usually well enough. The features that I like are:
On the …
I wrote a small tool to access QNAP snapshots from the Linux command line.
Pre-requistes:
/share/netcfg containing the file:read-only with root-squash.This is a quick recipe to run Docker on void:
sudo xbps-install -Syusudo xbps-install -S dockerdocker --versionsudo ln -s /etc/sv/containerd /var/servicesudo ln -s /etc/sv/docker …I finished migrating my VeraEdge to Home Assistant. I think after using it for some time, I find Home Assistant far superior to the VeraEdge in every way.
So, I took the time to mostly standardise my sensors which make things simpler to manage/mantain.
As such, essentially I am …
This integration is to control RFXtrx devices. I am using to control Somfy blinds and KlikAanKlikUit remotes.
RFXCOM RFXtrxSerialRFXtrx433XL - RFXtrx433XL, s/n: * - RFXCOMRemember to configure the RFXCOM unit before using it with Home Assistant as Home Assistant integration has …
To set-up a reverse proxy I took the following steps:
At the time of this writing I can't really confirm if the reverse proxy configuration for home assistant is working as I can't tell what IP …
This recipe is to check the tags defined for a specific Docker image in docker.hub.
The basic API is at https://registry.hub.docker.com/v2
So the format is as follows:
https://registry.hub.docker.com/v2/repositories/{namespace}/{image}/tags/
Where:
This recipe is my version of providing a "large clock" face in the home assistant dashboard.
Enable serving local static files:
www in your config directory.http://homeassistant.local:8123/local/.Place the HTML with your clock in a …
This recipe is to authenticate users using a web server providing Basic HTTP authentication for it users.
This is useful if you want to consolidate users/passwords in a single system. So instead of managing users on Home Assistant you can have all users managed from a central location.
It …
I am busy moving away from my VeraEdge installation to a Home Assistant running on a Raspberry Pi 4. This is because it looks like the maker of the VeraEdge was bought and it is slowly being phased out.
For this I am using the following parts:
The point of this recipe is to create a encrypted file sytem so that when the disc is disposed, it does not need to be securely erased. This is particularly important for SSD devices since because of block remapping (for wear levelling) data can't be overwritten consistently.
The idea is …
The point of this article is to document I workaround that I came up with to handle a HDMI KVM switch.
What happens is that if my Linux PC is turned on while the KVM switch is selecting the other PC, it fails to initialize the display, so when you …
This is intended as a quick reference and showcase. For more complete info, see John Gruber's original spec and the Github-flavored Markdown info page.
Source:
# H1
## H2
### H3
#### H4
##### H5
###### H6
Alternatively, for H1 and H2, an underline-ish style:
Alt-H1
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Alt-H2
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Output:
Alternatively …