Munin-tweaks

Small recipes to tweak munin configurations. Overriding critical and warning levels In the node configuration enter: plugin.field_name.critical value plugin.field_name.warning value The plugin name can be found by clicking in the graph with the value ...

Desktop Environments 2023

Around April 2023, I decided to look for a new Linux Desktop Environment for my personal void linux. So I tried these distros: lxqt: This is the one I eventually chose to switch to. I liked it that it was very small and light, and very modular, almost like a kit that you assemble yourself. Because I have thinking for some time that I would like to make my ...

NacoWiki

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 single class this quickly became difficult to manage. Additionally, I realized that "NanoWiki" was not a very good name as this ...

Home Assistant Wall Panel

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. Essentially, I could replace TabletClock with a web-page showing the time and a weather ...

RDP vs VNC

For years I have been using VNC for my remote desktop needs. This works usually well enough. The features that I like are: Basic set-up is easy Desktop sessions are persistent Can be used to view an actual X11.org desktop. ...

Docker on Void

This is a quick recipe to run Docker on void: Make sure your system is up-to-date: sudo xbps-install -Syu ...

Home Assistant sensors

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 only using 4 types of sensors: ...

Looking up docker image tags

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: ...

Home Assistant Large Clock

This recipe is my version of providing a "large clock" face in the home assistant dashboard. Enable serving local static files: Create directory www in your config directory. Restart home assistant. ...

Nanowiki

NanoWiki is a Wiki implementation based on picowiki. I have been using SimpleNote for a number of years. It works pretty well but somehow I was looking for: Ability to include and render nice asciiart pictures Organizes articles in a folder structure. ...