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I’ve been weighing whether to move away from Fastmail, for reasons that are more about jurisdiction than the service itself. The short version: I’m staying put for now, keeping my eyes open for how things evolve. If I ever do decide to move, it should be painless - one of the beautiful things about having your own domain linked to an email provider that uses open standards is that it’s easy to ...
I’ve been searching for an email client. Well, more than an email client - a piece of software (or interconnected pieces) that can handle email, calendaring and contacts - often referred to as a Personal Information Manager (or PIM). Either natively on Linux, or as a web client. The main reason for this search is that I’m considering moving away from my current mail hoster, Fastmail. Not becau...
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Ikea Starkvind and Home Assistant We recently bought an Ikea Starkvind Air Purifier, which supports Zigbee. I wanted to find out what I could do with it from within Home Assistant, possibly automating when it runs and when not. I also wanted to add some UI elements, like the mushroom fan card or the air purifier card, both of which rely on there being a fan entity. Zigbee integration with deC...
My static blog to-do list kept growing, so I decided to do something about it. I’ve switched from Minimal Mistakes to Chirpy as a theme, because it offers built-in dark/light theme support and has share-to-Mastodon functionality. At the same time I’ve done some spring cleaning in my posts - moved some really old stuff off to the side. In the end it was more work than I had anticipated: Re...
I’m one of the (main) sysadmins of a forum running phpBB. It also uses Plausible, a self-hosted web analytics tool, so we have some grasp where our users come from. My main focus is dealing with the underlying virtual hardware and OS - the forum software is updated by someone else, and Plausible was installed and then promptly forgotten about 3 years ago by yet another person. While doing som...
When we moved to our new home, we looked for a new place to exercise. While we had been spoiled with a gym at the end of our old street, our new location required a half-hour commute, which quickly turned working out into a chore. Instead, we opted to build a “home gym-ish”. We purchased an elliptical trainer and a Concept2 RowErg which were regularly used, and some weights. While working out ...
For $reasons there was a Citrix Workspace installation on my partner’s computer. This installation hadn’t been used in forever, and I did not manage to get rid of it either (uninstalling would fail, upgrading would fail). Citrix publishes a Citrix Cleanup tool, which for some obscure reason they’ve decided to put behind a login-wall. Only if your company has an account with Citrix you can obta...
I recently activated IPv6 on my Netcup VPS, and in the process of setting it up on all my LXCs I noticed that for “reasons” the IPv6 default route would vanish after starting Docker (switching it all over to Podman is on my TODO list), effectively breaking the IPv6 connectivity on this LXC. After some digging this seems to be a security thing: docker will enable forwarding on (eg.) eth0, but s...
In my original deployment of Proxmox on my VPS I only enabled IPv4, and I was using socat to forward traffic from the IPv6 address of the host to the internal IPv4 addresses of the containers. Not ideal, since this masks the external IP addresses, and also creates some latency and additional CPU load when processing IPv6. Forwarding traffic with socat With socat I had a systemd service file p...
