UK Extended keyboard layout in macOS

While Windows comes with the UK Extended keyboard layout and only needs a very simple adjustment to add the German ß letter, macOS doesn’t seem to have the layout at all. Sure, there are Apple’s ideas of the “perfect” British keyboard layout, namely “British” and “British – PC”. But neither one matches the actual UK… Read More »

Traefik with CrowdSec

In the Traefik static configuration (usually traefik.yml), add this to load the CrowdSec plugin: (The name for the plugin is defined here as crowdsec-bouncer-traefik-plugin.) Then, in your dynamic configuration, add this (I’ve used a separate file dynamic_conf/050-plugin-crowdsec-bouncer.yml): (The name for this new middleware defined here is crowdsec-bouncer. It uses the crowdsec-bouncer-traefik-plugin defined in the previous step. Make sure these names match.)… Read More »

Realtek RTL9210 and TRIM

I’ve recently started buying M.2 drives instead of traditional 2.5” SSDs. For USB enclosures I went with a UGREEN M.2 NVMe USB3.2 Gen2 enclosure that comes with all the bells and whistles. They have a Realtek RTL9210 chip which does support the “discard” or TRIM operation to mark unused space on the SSD. However, some… Read More »