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Pocketbook Era With Koreader
I’d been looking for a new e-reader to replace my Kindle Paperwhite for quite a while. The PocketBook Era with KOReader has turned out to be the perfect solution for me.
Because I didn’t have this …
h264, h265, and VC1 in Fedora >= 37
Mesa 22.2 made the support for hardware acclerated h264, h265, and VC1 optional due to patent claims. Fedora followed suit and is now distributing the version without hw acceleration support for those …
Extracting Messages from Signal Desktop
While Signal might be the best crypto messenger out there, it is terrible when it comes to simple convenience functions. Sometimes I want to export a chat to archive it or share it with someone who …
Reading Time & Word Count in Hugo
Many Hugo templates include reading time or word count as metadata of blog posts. I think that’s pretty handy, and I always enjoy a little heads up - especially on long blog posts where this …
Setting up IPv6 on a Web Server
This weekend, I finally came around to enabling IPv6 on my web server. In this post, I describe what I did to get everything up and running on a netcup vServer running CentOS 8, but this should be …
Solid Color Background in Gnome 3
Gnome is notorious for reducing user options in the GUI to a minimum. So if you want to use a solid color background instead of a wallpaper, your only option using the UI is to select an image of …
Installing Fedora 34 with an AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT
I had a little hickup when I installed Fedora 34 on a machine with an AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT graphics adapter: the boot process got stuck after mounting /tmp. I assume this was caused by KVM, because …
Windows 10 Installation: Missing Media Driver
I had a strange problem when I tried to install Windows 10 on a new machine yesterday:
I downloaded the Windows 10 ISO from the Microsoft website and used dd to create a bootable USB stick. I could …
Why React Seems to Scroll Just Not Far Enough
If your React app’s scrolling seems off, it might actually have nothing to do with scrolling.
Signal Updates Considered Harmful
I usually recommend Signal as a simple-to-use and secure form of communication. Signal is primarily known for its mobile app, but there is also a desktop application based on Electron.
The desktop app …
Migration to Hugo / Relaunch
This week, I changed my server OS from Debian to CentOS 7.
Since I don’t appreciate having all those Ruby dependencies on my clients, I changed my static site generator to Hugo.
I intend to …
The Tale of the Three Little Monitors and the Evil Lenovo Dock
TL’DR: I tried to attach three monitors to Lenovo’s Ultra Dock. At least at the moment, that only works if one of the monitors is attached to the analog VGA port because the Intel Graphics …