If you’re looking for a USB 4.0 Class 1 Bluetooth dongle that has Linux compatibility without needing proprietary firmware, the BT0015 by LogiLink is one option that works. I personally tested it with Trisquel Linux and Gentoo Linux without additional firmware, and can confirm that I’m able ...
This week I learned the hard way that you should always create a backup of the LUKS header on your encrypted drive(s). It got corrupted while rebuilding my RAID and unfortunately some issues arose. I lost access to several TB of data. Ouch.
I think I have some more grey hair now, but at least my unix ...
Update: Unfortunately, eudev has been removed from Gentoo because it isn’t maintained anymore. Switching to eudev is not possible anymore.
While eudev has been abandoned by the Gentoo maintainers in 2021, it has been picked up again by Alpine, Devuan and Gentoo contributors as an independent project. You can rather easily switch back to eudev, if you wish ...
The Fractal Design Define 7 XL is a great case for your homelab with its ability to store up to 18×3,5″ HDDs plus 5×2,5″ SSDs/HDDs.
If you’re looking for a film database that is free and open, the OFDb is something for you: a database of your favourite movies, published under the ODbL.
Now you can finally buy the Murena Fairphone 4—a de-googled phone with the most sustainable production line on the market.
If you’re looking for a printer that works with Linux, HP’s LaserJet Pro MFP M428fdn is a quite good option. Its driver is even open source as it doesn’t rely on the HPLIP Binary Plug-In, and available in many distro’s repositories—including Gentoo.
To install the printer under Gentoo, all I had to do was the following steps:
After an update of my packages, OpenVPN suddenly didn’t connect anymore and dropped an error:
invalid IP6 config received!Apparently this happens because “OpenVPN 2.5.0 started to pass incomplete IPv6 configurations when the server is not fully configured for IPv6 but has some IPv6 ...