Supporting English beer culture
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.” As a beer ...
Note to self: always create a LUKS header backup
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 ...
Gentoo: Migrate from systemd-utils[udev] to eudev
Update: Unfortunately, eudev has been removed from Gentoo because it isn’t maintained anymore. Switching to eudev is not possible anymore.
While eudev has been abandoned by the Gentoo maintainers in 2021, it has been picked up again by Alpine, Devuan and Gentoo contributors as an independent project. You can rather easily switch back to eudev, if you wish ...
Fractal Design Define 7 XL accessory comatibility
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.
- Tempered Glass Side Panel Dark Tinted TG (FD-A-SIDE-002)
- Flex B-20 (FD-A-FLX1-001)
- Flex VRC-25 (FD-ACC-FLEX-VRC-25-BK)
- Hard Drive Cage Kit (FD-A-CAGE-001)
- Universal Multibracket (FD-A-BRKT-003)
- HDD Tray kit (FD-A-TRAY-001 / FD-A ...
Open Film Database (OFDb)
If you’re looking for a film database that is free and open, the OFDb is something for you: a database of your favourite movies, published under the ODbL.
Dark Age of Camelot: armor hit chance
Dark Age of Camelot Shadowblade resources
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.
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:
- Make sure you have ...
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 ...