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Murena Fairphone 4 finally available

Now you can finally buy the Murena Fairphone 4—a de-googled phone with the most sustainable production line on the market.

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Installing the HP LaserJet Pro MFP M428fdn printer on Gentoo

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:

  1. Make sure you have ...
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NetworkManager-openvpn: invalid IP6 config received!

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 ...

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Gentoo: get pretty VLC subtitles

While the subtitles of the VLC player on Gentoo looked rather ugly, they looked nice on Windows—to a point it really bothered me. After some online searching, I came across a forum post that helped me to resolve it rather easily:

  1. In VLC, go to Tools → Preferences
  2. Bottom left under Show settings select All
  3. Find Subtitles / OSD → Text renderer
  4. Under Font (on the very top), you ...

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Bibimbap

A nice recipe for the Korean dish Bibimbap. Besides being delicious, it takes me back to my time spent in Asia 🌏. If you’re a vegetarian, simply leave out the meat and enjoy the veggies.

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Vertical Forest, Milan

I recently stumbled upon the “Vertical Forest” (ital. Bosco Verticale) in Milan, two award-winning skyscrapers. Don’t they look cool?

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Covid-19 statistics for South Africa

A very useful overview for tracking Coronavirus cases in South Africa.

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The filming location database is online!

After many hours of work, the filming location database is finally online. It’s an open and free database of filming locations: the data is licensed under the ODbL.

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OpenStreetMap/iD/Esri

OpenStreetMap: Updated Esri World Imagery in Pretoria

Exciting news for mappers in Pretoria (as myself): the Esri World Imagery was recently updated to a much sharper, more detailed version. This makes mapping way more pleasant and reliable. Awesome!