How to set up Video/Voice calling with Matrix
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The Hardware Troubleshooting Grimoire: A Spellbook for Tech Sorcery
Hardware trouble can be difficult to troubleshoot. Components interact in ways that sometimes, a memory issue may look like a GPU issue, or a motherboard iss...
Watchy: Opensource/OpenHardware Watch â things to watch for
I compiled this document because I noticed thereâs quite a lot of quirks and not a lot of documentation to this honest great little hardware platform. There ...
How to set up a BcacheFS Filesystem, and what is it?
You mightâve heard of BcacheFS before, but you mightâve not been entirely sure what it is, and why it is suddenly showing up everywhere. Or, you might alread...
How to use AI and machine learning to accelerate tasks and safely get work done
Youâve likely seen the large influx of new AI/ML tools, but how do you use these effectively, and safely? This post hopes to help you understand the benefits...
Understanding Motor Oil Viscosity: A Dive into SAE Standards
(Just a disclaimer: This blog was generated by ChatGPT, after a lot of prompting and helping it say the right things.)
Managing and Merging Local Changes in Git: A Practical Guide
(Just a disclaimer: This blog was generated by ChatGPT, after a lot of prompting and helping it say the right things.)
How to unf*ck Mastodon
Hello! If you found this page for a reason, I feel sorry for you. Thereâs quite a lot of reasons and ways that Mastodon can break, so I figured Iâd start a l...
How to enable Streaming for your Mastodon server if you use JWilderâs Nginx Proxy
A guest blog written by ChatGPT! After it helped me figure out how to get the config of nginx-proxy fixed; apparently it knows about it so it could give me d...
How to use your Windows Hello IR Camera as PAM auth in Linux and KDE/Gnome with Howdy
I recently acquired a new HP Elitebook 835 G8, and it came with one of those Windows Hello infrared projector + sensors in the screen bezel that map your fac...
The Linux Sysadmin Compendium
This should hopefully grow with time.
Containers, Jails, and chroots; An introduction
You probably heard of one of these by now. Itâs a hard to avoid piece of jargon when you dabble even the tiniest amount in IT, and everyone seems to be reall...
SELinux; How it works and a cheat sheet
SELinux. Many probably heard of it, some may have ârun into itâ and disabled it, but few actually seem to take the effort to properly set it up.
How to set up a Mastodon server in Docker
With the sale of Twitter, a lot of people have been looking for alternatives and backup options. Due to humanity finally seeming to have gotten sick of the p...
Upgrading Postgres between major revisions, the easy way
When you look at the documentation for the pg_update command, you quickly realize that thereâs a lot more to it than just an in-place upgrade, especially if ...
Downgrading the kernel and fixing kernel modules after an incompatible new version in Fedora/Centos/RHEL
It happens quite often that a kernel module such as ZFS isnât quite up to speed with the latest Linux kernels, and a distro such as Fedora decides to go ahea...
Fun things to try with your Flipper Zero (and wifi devboard)
last update: 14-10-2022
The dragonhive/dergnz web stack
Setting up this website reminded me how happy I am with my current automation and web stack.
The Garden & Household Compendium
There are a lot of nifty tricks out there, so I started collecting them.