update: 2022: ah oh: Pine community in Pain? https://blog.brixit.nl/why-i-left-pine64/ “In February 2021, PINE64 announced the end of the community editions. At this moment, PINE64’s focus shifted from supporting a diverse ecosystem of distributions and software projects around the PinePhone to […]
Motorola, Apple, Samsung, and now even Fairphone 4: NO 3.5mm headphone jack!!! For the audio junkies among us, this is a no go. Was so looking forward to the Fairphone, but will probably use a phone with audio jack as […]
inkscape is a genious vector drawing program it is a bit complex though and takes time getting used to hostnamectl; # tested on Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster) Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-18-amd64 Architecture: x86-64 Inkscape 0.92.4 (5da689c313, 2019-01-14) install the […]
mplayer is still a great program 🙂 that let’s you play streams and files on command line (per default it has no gui) creditz: http://sheet.shiar.nl/mplayer # install it su – root apt update apt install mplayer ffmpeg Ctrl+D # log […]
update: 2022-12 wow 3 and 4nm is very very small “TSMC recently announced that it is upping its U.S. investment in Arizona to US$40 billion (NT$1.23 trillion) and will manufacture 4nm and 3nm chips there. The 4nm chips are expected […]
team, team, team team… In Germany, everyone is his/her own team, there are only one-man, one-woman teams. teams not necessarily help each other the best “help” you can get from another “team” is “it is somewhere in the (incomplete, outdated, […]
the positive vision (always start with something positive) if big data about every keystroke every step we make (the police: every step you make) algorithms determine how mankind will live and thus: technology is “neutral” until it is used for […]
remember that discussion about ever changing non-standard ways of defining network interfaces and ip addresses under /etc/network… well guess what, canonical just came up with a completely new config file format X-D (guess, everything is a yaml.yml now) hostnamectl; # […]
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:92.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/92.0 Hello Dear Mozilla / Dear Firefox management & DevTeam, using this rss app to stay up to date with various open source related blogs & sites., what cought the user’s eye […]
update: Starlink reduced price to 80EUR! 😀 PLUS: THE HARDWARE IS FOR FREE! (the very good hardware alone is worth ~2000USD!) Thanks Elon! 😀 Support SpaceX: mankind’s only hope to ever reach Mars! order Starlink now! intro: would the user […]
update: 2021-08 from the TL-WA901ND menu: “Bridge with AP – In Bridge with AP mode, this device can be used to combine multiple local networks in distant hard-to-wire distant together to the same one via wireless connections. While bridging with […]
prologue: (u can skip it) SmartPhones try to spy and collect data, that why SmartPhone games and weather-apps are usually free. Because the user pays with user data. What even fuels the paranoia are stories like these: in 2011 Rothschild […]
“thin provisioning” means “virtually” allocate more harddisk space, than the harddisk (physically) has, then grow the virtual harddisk file according to it’s needs (store more files = size of harddisk.img grows dynamically) # debian 10; # tested via bash terminal: […]
“Basically, rust-gdb is a wrapper that loads external Python pretty-printing scripts into GDB. This is useful (and somewhat necessary) when debugging more complex Rust programs because it significantly improves the display of Rust data types.” (src) what the developer has […]
app only? no browser support? not exactly click here: any tag topic can be seen in browser via: https://social.librem.one/tags/librem5 so it seeeems like these service are aimed at selling and be used mostly by app with the pretty expensive Librem […]
in short: humans per default, without an education might just be “better” apes. Some parts of mankind behave very primitive and clearly show no signs of higher intelligence or education. The troubles start, when the tools become more and more […]
the catch: when there is no audio jack inserted -> it will register as “audio output device” (usb-soundcard) by GNU Linux Debian X-D making file access impossible solution: attach a audio-jack cable: then it will show up and mount like […]
update: join me @ online-coworking-space.com https://play.workadventu.re/@/online/coworking/space.com first of: the online conferecing as RPG game format is really fun and innovative idea to make online events more fun! 🙂 (it is accompanied by live streams via vimeo or youtube) Corona will […]
every user want’s a fast & responsive internet. BIND and DNS – the Phonebook of the internet – Berkeley Internet Name Domain – how to benchmark dns servers (find fastest) – LibreDNS There is nothing more anoying than slow loading […]
CentOS 7 (maintained until 2024) is hailed a rock-solid GNU Linux Open Source (?) server OS, hardened by many idelaistic developers & RedHat technicians. …and indeed it performed well on it’s xfs filesystem (thanks all involved also thanks to RedHat […]
Yes! RSS (“Really Simple Syndication“) FEEDs are still a very practical thing to follow certain websites & blogs & news outlets & aggregators & stay current on those platforms. Instead of letting big media outlets shovel news indiscriminately down the […]
Apple wants to become the new Google: BigBadBoldBigDataMothership why more developers should chose GPL to publish programs: as a once proud Apple user… (yes GNU Linux Debian 10 actually runs pretty well on the Intel-Macbook-Pros) yes they are beautiful spies… […]
long story… good alternative? https://minidvblinux.de/ having had various frustrating experiences with the topic: TV + PC (even tried a cheap DreamBox 520 HD from eBay… which are probably good devices, but this one turned out to be faulty/unstable) now… in […]
the story goes like this. multiple files were zipped under Windows 7 (Pro German/DE) and unzipped under GNU Linux Debian 10. The problem is: that the special chars of the filenames are all reported as “invalid encoding” (within the MATE […]
I once asked Rupert Murdoch why he was so opposed to the European Union. ‘That’s easy,’ he replied. ‘When I go into Downing Street they do what I say; when I go to Brussels they take no notice.’ https://www.indy100.com/people/this-terrifying-rupert-murdoch-quote-is-possibly-the-best-reason-to-stay-in-the-eu-yet-7291931 src […]
can it run GNU Linux Debian 10 (64Bit)? yes it can! what used to be aWindows XP box is now running very latest FREE version Debian, thus allowing to run latest Firefox and latest Thunderbird 🙂 (to stay up to […]
UPDATE: 2022-11 RENAULT HAT UNS DIE BATTERIE GESCHENKT!! 😀 DANKE RENAULT! DANKE! THANKS! MERCI! GRACIAS! 😀 LED in PKW ab Werk = ALLES OK LED NACHRÜSTUNG = NICHT OK … Elon Musk kritisiert VÖLLIG ZU RECHT, die DEN DEUTSCHEN BÜROKRATIE […]
computers are no way perfect: the rise of the machines: who is scared of killer robots? who is scared of doctors, judges and police blindly trusting in AI and computer output? “we are driving in (heavy) rain right now with […]
roof dish and fast sat internet for 100 Bucks a month, (500 Bucks for hardware) nice… but will there be phones that can operate with the StarLink satellites? YES! check this out: “A new SpaceX filing outlines plans for Starlink […]
self made Flat Roof mount: 25kg Steel Plate hope it will survive the next storm… (maybe need to place additional weight on it) How to get StarLink Support: only via the iOS and Android App update: now starlink support is […]