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 »
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 »
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 »
I usually have a few SMB shares from my NAS mounted on my Raspberry Pis. However, I rarely need to actually use them and scripts only need them once a day (backup). So I figured: Why let the OS bother with keeping those mounts active all day long when there’s a better way? Cue autofs.… Read More »
My private SSH key is ancient. And thus it still was in the “old” RSA format, recognisable by the header: This never was an issue. Everything works fine. Until now. While trying out GitFinder, it just didn’t want to accept my id_rsa file and always came back with “invalid format”. I’ve also made sure to… Read More »
After moving to a new place, I had to put my ADS-B handling Raspberry Pi 2B into a cupboard far from any network connection. So I’ve plugged in a cheap USB WiFi dongle and connected it to my WiFi. However, I don’t know whether it’s the dongle or something specific to the RasPi2’s USB implementation,… Read More »
There are two locations where you can define the button’s location: dconf and gconf. The dconf-method works for most of Gnome Shell and Unity. However, e.g. Chrome is using the “old” gconf-setting. dconf Install and run dconf-editor. Go to org → gnome → desktop → wm → preferences and find the setting button-layout. The default… Read More »
On my hp Spectre x360, the Ins key is only reachable via the Fn key as in Fn+PrtScr. So I wanted to swap both keys. System-wide – so not only in X (using xev). I finally found this which suggested the following procedure: