RRD migration to different architecture
I have this old machine with an Atom CPU where I installed Debian in 2011 and it’s been running ever since (I just upgrade it to the next major version every two years). One time, I had to replace failing …
Llama.cpp on Fedora 40 with cuda support
Not long ago, I bought a laptop with Nvidia card. Partially because I wanted to check out some newer, fancy games (but in reality, when I do have some free time finally, I usually end up playing DOS games anyway). …
Baikal as calendar server
Calendar and Tasks Like a lot of people, I’ve been more or less stuck with some parts of the Google ecosystem ever since the Gmail Beta times (an era when Gmail was truly an exciting turn of events as opposed …
Doom 2
About once in a year, usually during the Xmas break, there comes this time to dust off an old classic – Doom 2. To me, this is the paragon of all FPS games, mostly because by the time my parents …
Dovecot backups with doveadm
As everything is a file in the linux world, migrating or backing up email boxes can be as simple as moving those files around in one way or another. But if you’re using the Dovecot/Postfix combination to handle your email, …
Apache and GeoIP2 module
Often, the Internet can seem like the wild wild west (or the wild wild east, depends on where you are located), and you can be fairly certain that any public facing service will draw some amount of brute force attacks …
Observium alerts not working
I’ve been running an instance of Observium for a couple of years now. I had set it up for the VPS which I’m running this blog on or for my home NAS, it’s really nice to be able to see …
Early RHEL 9/CentOS 9 Stream
Even if it’s still in pre-Beta, it has been publicly known that RHEL 9.0 development is well under way for some time now. But that’s not all there is to it – not only is this information public, the development …
Gnome 3 and ‘switch to workspace 5 and above’ shortcut
As far as desktop environments go, I somehow got stuck in the Gnome 2 days, and when Gnome 3 became a thing, I simply carried on with its fork, Mate. Partially because I was used to it, but more importantly, …
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SoundWire: Android as a remote speaker
I was having issues with my desktop PC and connection of Bluetooth headphones via a generic dongle. This was probably caused by poor driver support of those Bluetooth dongles in Linux, I tried two of them but the result was …