Thoughs and things
SnappyMail is a successor of RainLoop and most importantly, SnappyMail is maintained. When I was trying to login to the SnappyMail admin portal via /?admin URL, I couldn t remember the password and the password manager does not have the record either. It is time to reset the password. It is pretty easy. Login to your Continue reading "Reset SnappyMail admin portal password"
Lenovo Y510p has been out for more than 7 years, to this date I am still using it as my go-to workstation. The specification is quite old and I have upgraded and replaced everything that I could, except the wireless card, due to the infamous BIOS whitelisting. Thanks to techinferno, there are people sharing the Continue reading "Lenovo Y510p BIOS flash to remove wifi card whitelist"
The Legion 5 Gen 6 AMD Ryzen with NVIDIA graphics (15ACH6H, model 82JU00APUS) is what I have on my hand. The Linux system I use is Manjaro due to its simplicity. I ve experienced a very common backlight issue, Fn key won t adjust the backlight at all, it s always on 100% brightness. I use discrete / Continue reading "Lenovo Legion 5 Gen 6 AMD with nvidia backlight issue under Manjaro"
Now Manjaro is my major operating system for my desktop, I am joining the Arch team! With so many documentations available online it s been a really good ride to customize my OS to my taste. Today I am gonna talk about my use for taking a screenshot, cropping it and copy it to the clipboard. Continue reading "Screenshot crop to clipboard under Linux"
Just when I was thinking of what gift to buy for myself for the Christmas holiday, I came to an Indiegogo crowd funding project: Minisforum X35G. And I suddenly realized that I need to use a mini PC to replace my 5-year-old Lenovo Y50P laptop running as my side router. I have the following reasons Continue reading "Purchased a Minisforum X35G"
Recently I leased a server with 2 IPs, x.x.x.x and y.y.y.y from a VPS company. Their first IP is the primary one and is connected to my VM, the secondary IP y.y.y.y is there for me to use, but have not connected yet. Given the following status quo: The primary x.x.x.x is a great IP Continue reading "Make virtual ethernet the default"
Linux kernel is able to control every tiny bit of the hardware it operates. This time I am going to max out my server s CPU performance by tuning the CPU to the performance mode. I have been renting a dedicated server for a long time, on the server I have been hosting a few virtual Continue reading "Put CPU under Performance mode in Linux"
As I mentioned before, I am a heavy terminal user, including viewing and replying emails with it. Mutt is my email client. Once you have setup your 2 factor authentication with Google, you won t be able to access your Gmail using IMAP with your password, you ll have to generate a specific password for the so Continue reading "mutt integration with Gmail using OAuth"
After CVE-2019-11477 and a few other CVEs broke out, Linux kernel released 5.1.11 to address the vulnerabilities. My VM host machine is constantly running on the latest kernel (provided by ELRepo). When I reboot into the new kernel and want to start one of my KVM boxes, this error appears: Host CPU does not provide Continue reading "Resolve virsh start a domain (VM) failed problem"
Recently I was playing around with GitLab LFS setup, although the documentation on GitLab website has most of the technical background however there are a few details and examples missing. I ll complement some of them here. The official documentation is located here: https://docs.gitlab.com/ce/workflow/lfs/lfs_administration.html My setup is: Omnibus GitLab + Google Cloud Storage (GCS) bucket.…