By now I have 2 of those Ugreen M.2 NVMe USB 3.2 SSD enclosures. One of them is attached to my DELL monitor which is attached to my MacBook Pro M1 for TimeMachine backups and just works™ for almost 4 months now. I’ve recently bought a second one (and also the same SSD as in… Read More »
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 »
If you want your Docker container to use data from a network share, people tend to mount the share to a directory outside of Docker and then point the Docker volume to that mounted path. However, Docker-Compose also supports mounting volumes and brings some advantages. E.g. for a SMB/CIFS share, the relevant parts in your… Read More »
A while ago, I’ve upgraded from fail2ban to CrowdSec. Similar to fail2ban, it analyses various logfiles to detect malicious acts and actors. But CrowdSec also pulls lists of malicious actors that other users have detected – and blocks them before they even get a chance to try their luck. (Which means it also reports incidents… Read More »
A while ago, I’ve bought the ISDT C4 EVO USB-C-powered battery charger to replace my MAHA C9000 (of which there seems to be a new “Pro” model available). The ISDT charger gets regular firmware updates which add new features and optimises the charging modes for different battery chemistries. Up until firmware 1.0.44, everything worked fine.… Read More »
I’ve recently acquired an old HP EliteBook Revolve 810 G3 and wanted to reset that to the factory state. Luckily, this already supports HP’s Cloud Recovery feature where you can download the recovery image from the Internet and write it to a USB drive. There’s even a choice between Windows 7 and Windows 10. However,… Read More »
After adding a new penguin to my zoo and moving around a few services, I had the need to re-route HTTPS traffic to a different host for doing all the SSL handling (which would then send a request back – but via HTTP on a different port). The simplest way to do this is to… Read More »
To quickly setup an FTP server or SMB share using a Docker container instead of fiddling with the system daemons, I’ve found these: FTP For bringing up an FTP server, I’ve found Gareth Flower’s vsftpd container: Here, it’s important to also map ports 40000 – 40009 for PASV FTP to work. The container automatically creates… Read More »
Several years ago, I had a Garmin Fenix 5 Plus watch for a while. I’ve turned that into a D2 Delta watch to unlock all possible features. During that time, I also switched from my beloved BlackBerry KEY2 Android phone to an iPhone. And as a former fan of Google Health, I liked the way… Read More »
I’m a data hoarder. And as such I still have email conversations going back to 2003. To not clog up my provider’s disk space and, because I don’t want to donate all these old conversations to Google, I’ve setup my own email archive using dovecot. Early versions ran natively on one of my Raspberry Pis,… Read More »