I planned to get into model railroading for a while, and finally made the step 🤘

I ordered a PIKO Sm31 PKP, a fully assembled…

With GOG’s new policy to limit save games to 200 MB and delete files after August 31, 2024, I was looking for a tool to manage my save games. I came across…

Today when I wanted to update Matomo, I ran into the following error:

Update error: Incompatible archive: NoName (-17): Filename [matomo folder]/tmp/latest/piwik/[some html special char code] is already used by an existing directory…

froxlor is a server management/web hosting tool released under the GPLv2. It will allow you to manage (sub)domains, MySQL databases, email accounts and so on.…

There are several programs available that will help you to plan your railway model layout. One option is XTrackCAD, a layout builder licensed under the GNU GPLv2 that can be installed on Linux, Mac and Windows.

However, the Linux installation…

In the spirit of Dry January I’ve been trying quite some alcohol free beers. While some were quite good, an important ingredient is simply missing. You can taste the lack of alcohol.

Nevertheless, I was amazed with Nøgne Ø’s Svart/Hvit, an alcohol free Milk Stout. A bit…

A few weeks back I bought my first mushroom growing kit, and it’s quite amazing to see how they grow. I was especially surprised, how quick they grow—you can see the difference by the day.

Next thing I’ll try is to start from scratch to grow shiitakes without a starter set. I’m already excited about this!

My birthday present to myself this year was a CAMRA membership. The Campaign for Real Ale is a consumer organisation advocating “quality real ale, cider and perry and thriving pubs in every community…

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 beard grew a bit with this…

Update: Unfortunately, eudev has been removed from Gentoo because it isn’t maintained anymore. Switching to eudev is not possible anymore.

While…

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.

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Chest: 40%

Legs: 25%

Arms: 15%

Head: 10%

Feet: 5%

Hands: 5%

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