10 years ago I bought a Dell XPS13 L322x ultrabook as a replacement for my white Macbook 2,1. This week I replaced the Dell with something newer: a Lenovo Thinkpad T14s Gen3 (AMD). Reasons to ...

For my offsite backup strategy I’m relying on rclone and restic. Rclone is being used to encrypt/copy backups taken by Proxmox Backup Server (which takes backups of the VM’s/Linux Containers runnin...

I have an Asus ZenScreen MB16AC which uses Displaylink as its display technology. On usb-c you can just plug this in and it’ll work, but on my ancient laptop I only have usb-a ports. The display do...

Mastodon comes with a default post size of 500 characters. This is not set in stone, and can be increased fairly easily (last tested on Mastodon 4.2.0): Edit live/app/javascript/mastodon/features/...

For legal reasons Fedora 37 decided to build Mesa without support for H.246, H.256 and VC1 VA-API codecs. (discussion thread) Luckely, installing a build that enables those is fairly easy: Ena...

To get flatpak’s to honor your systems dark mode and not show you horrible white menubars, you can use this little snipplet: First make sure that gtk-application-prefer-dark-theme is set to true i...

I’ve been meaning to test out Mastodon again for a while. It’s is best described as a federated version of the blue bird platform (Twitter), while not being Twitter. No ads, no algorithms. Since T...

For some obscure reason the Home Assistant folks decided to add fallback DNS functionality to the Homeassistant Supervisor. This meant that it would fall back to using Cloudflare’s DNS servers if/w...

An update on the My history in gadgets, the 2014, 2015, 2016, 2019, 2019 bis, 2020 and 2020 bis updates: Phone history Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra My partner took over the OnePlus Pro 8, and I...

In the past (before the introduction of the new design/engine/…), you were able to import Certificate Authority certificates without problems. The new version took that away, unfortunately. After ...