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 ...

After an update of my packages, OpenVPN suddenly didn’t connect anymore and dropped an error:

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 ...

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 ...

• Dark Age of Camelot Class Library: Shaman
• reddit: Shaman Leveling Guide
• Phoenix forums: Shaman RA's
• Sothi's Dark age of Camelot Page: Schamanen (Shaman) Guide von Gninakk (Avalon) (german)
• Tault Unleashed: Cave Shaman guide
• The FreddyHouse Forums: shaman spec
• Uthgard forums
  • Compiling Cave Shaman AOE Spots
  • Newb here - Cave Shaman
  • Shaman specs!

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.

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!

Giving presents to someone who cares about Soft- and Hardware Freedom is difficult (I know my wife struggles). The Free Software Foundation’s Ethical Tech Giving Guide can help you to find the perfect gift.

It’s official: the coming State of the Map is set in Cape Town!

Updating LineageOS 16.0 on your Sony Xperia XA2 can result in no network, bluetooth and Wi-Fi. It’s a common problem, but there is a solution: update the firmware, but to an older version than 50.2.A.0.*. After that, updating to newer LineageOS versions won’t be a problem anymore. Here’s a step-by-step guide how it worked for me.

Note: If you make a ...

Vorbis nominal bitrate at quality levels for 44.1 kHz stereo input. The new libvorbis v1.2 usually compresses better than these values (effective bitrate may vary).