Around April 2023, I decided to look for a new Linux Desktop Environment for my personal void linux. So I tried these distros:
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:
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:
So I was looking for a Wiki package …
As part of my small project of movng my Z-Wave Hub to a Raspberry PI, I got an X728 kit. This has:
The case has holes for wall-mounting.
The Geekworm X728 kit is …
Currently I am using docker containers to deploy applications. A number of those containers make use of supervisord for managing processes. While supervisord itself comes with a UI, it is unhandy for me because each container is its own supervisord instance.
So I was interested in some software that would …
Flatpak is a utility for software deployment and package management for Linux. It is advertised as offering a sandbox environment in which users can run application software in isolation from the rest of the system. Flatpak was developed as part of the freedesktop.org project and was originally called xdg-app …
Finally got fedup with github pages and its jekyll static site generator. Essentially things would break without any particular reason and there would be nearly no way to tell what went wrong. I addition, it was not easy to test changes before making them public.
So I switched to pelican …
My ISP provider is KPN. They recently enabled IPv6 in my street. I was using before a IPv6 Tunnel Broker, starting with SixXS and after they went out, with Hurricane Electric. So naturally, I decided to switch to KPN's native IPv6 service.
They provide a /64 prefix, which is reasonable …
These tips are for void linux as that is the distro I am using nowadays.
dconf write /org/mate/desktop/background/picture-filename "'PATH-TO-JPEG'"xbindkeysHere we explain how to use XScreenSaver EXCELLENT screensaver hack collection with the MATE screensaver applet.
xscreensaver and mate-screensaver/usr/libexec/xscreensaver: contains the screensaver hacks executables/usr/libexec/mate-screensaver : contains the mate-screensaver executables/usr/share/applications/screensavers : containes the …I am running void-linux at home with musl as the standard
C library.
While most things work well, there is a number of programs that
do not and must be using glibc counterparts.
To enable this I followed this guide here: Live switching Void Linux from glibc to musl.
To …
I made the switch to void linux. Except for compatibility
issues around glibc, it works quite well. Most compatibility
I have worked around with a combination of Flatpaks, chroots and
namespaces.
The high lights of void linux:
systemd …Need to create diagrams, flowcharts, circuits, or other kinds of entity-relationship models? Microsoft Visio is without a doubt the best software for that, but that doesn't mean it's the best choice for you.
Visio may be the industry standard in the corporate world, but it comes with a huge drawback …
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During my last vacation I wanted to move how we manage our personal finances away from the ad-hoc spreadsheet that we had been using for the past few years. I envisioned something server side, so I wouldn't need to add software on my wife's computer. And initial quick run through …
So I finally tried my hand at 3D printing. Obviously I did not buy at 3D printer. These are either quite expensive or you need to assemble them yourself, which I don't think is in my capacity level.
To get started, you first need a 3D model to print. There …
This is a service that let's you get SSL certificates for HTTPS. These certificates are trusted by major browsers. See Let's Encrypt This is a barebones howto to get SSL certificates:
git clone https://github.com/letsencrypt/letsencrypt
cd letsencrypt
This contains the client software for let's encrypt.
./letsencrypt-auto certonly …Software package download proxy
rpmgot is a simple/lightweight software package download proxy. It was designed to run on an OpenWRT router with some USB storage. So it is fully implemented as an ash script.
The basic idea has been implemented multiple times. For example refer to this article on …
This is something I found:
Essentially it requires pairing a Raspberry Pi with a NTPI Raspberry Pi GPS addon board
On the software side of things you need rpi_gpio_ntp
A good tutorial on creating a low cost surveillance camera using the raspberry Pi camera module and one of thos fake surveillance camera things.
Instructables has a good tutorial on creating a low cost surveillance camera.
Essentially makes use of a Pi, the Camera module and fitted into one of …