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Yesterday after roughly eleven years (just checked the database entries) I ve decided to switch from Tiny Tiny RSS to FreshRSS. The transition was quite smooth, but I ll get to that in a bit. First let me point out the reasons for me wanting to switch. So, root cause: Supermassive asshole (works like a Continue reading "Good Bye Tiny Tiny RSS / TT-RSS"
I ve been watching the Wayland development from afar for a couple of years now, probably since 2014. But whenever I gave it a try, after less than 10 minutes something was so obviously broken that I immediately went back to X11. Until yesterday, when I decided to give it another try. The trigger was, that Continue reading "Wayland, finally."
Alright, it s the time of the year where I find time to tinker a little. This time I wanted to find out why changing the volume didn t feel linear for my beloved Teufel CONCEPT 8 2.1 sound system that s connected to my PC via USB. First of all I probably have to clarify what I Continue reading "Fix / workaround for non-linear volume control on Linux"
For a few years now, I ve used Dolphin / Konqueror / Krusader for transferring files to or from my home server via SFTP. However when there were larger amounts to be transferred, I opened the shell and used rsync. That s because I felt it was always somewhat slower with SFTP. I blamed it on the Continue reading "Fast SFTP transfers with KDE / kio-extras / Dolphin"
Quick post, mainly for my future self Today I had to reinstall Windows. Because that s what you apparently have to do with Windows, even if you barely ever use it. As always after a Windows installation, afterwards the machine directly booted into Windows. No sign of my usual grub boot menu. So I downloaded grml, Continue reading "Windows installation broke grub easy fix"
Before I can get into the actual topic, I have to give some background.TL;DR: I have some free electric power that I wanted to put to good use. You can skip to How to put the power to good use? Background: Fuel cell produces more power than we need at times We have a pretty Continue reading "Heating the room for Science"
Three weeks ago I ve decided to use InfluxDB for some Smart Home data. Here is a short article about my impressions. Getting it to run on my home server was pretty easy: Of course I first had to figure out these arguments, and how to get that config.yml, but it s all rather well-documented here. Once Continue reading "InfluxDB newcomer s impressions"
It s been a while that I ve been setting up a private computer. For a long time I only had my old laptop, where I had not much motivation to tinker and optimize. Now that I have my new desktop computer (yay!), I ve spent some time arranging the workspace / desktop. And of course I m using Continue reading "Getting FRITZ!Box upload/download rate nicely displayed in a KDE Plasma panel"
Somehow related to my previous post: As of currently i.e. September 2020 there is a weird bug in Ubuntu 20.04 s exfat support: When you mount an exfat file system (like the one on pretty much any MicroSD card that you would use in a GoPro), it will not only show all files as Continue reading "Ubuntu 20.04 messes up file modification dates on exfat file systems"
I have recently acquired a GoPro Hero 7 Black. After the first more-than-a-few-seconds recording session, I found out that it splits the recording into multiple .MP4 files, each ~4 GB in size. After some quick research on the net I found out that this is called chaptering , and that it cannot be turned off. There Continue reading "Script to merge GoPro videos on Linux / Mac OS X"