Beautiful heatsink for the Raspberry Pi
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Web Page Navigation with a Rapoo mouse on Mac
Install Karabiner, enable the mouse device & import these rules: https://ke-complex-modifications.pqrs.org/#mouse_button
Migrating from SmartThings to Zigbee2MQTT with Home Assistant
Sadly, Samsung seem to be winding down their SmartThings Zigbee/ZWave home automation setup and it has always been quite painful using devices that weren’t officially supported. I’ve recently migrated my non-SmartThings native devices to Zigbee2MQTT, here’s how I did it: Purchase a SBC, in my case an OrangePi 4 running Armbian/Ubuntu – but a Raspberry …
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Memory Upgrades from Mr Memory
Very pleased with my recent order from Mr Memory. The DIMM they sent me didn’t work but the return & replacement process was free & efficient.
Split long output into 2 columns
With unsurprisingly, the UNIX “columns” command (will need to install autogen package). du -hc –max-depth=1 . | columns
Diff the output of 2 commands in bash
diff <(ls dir1/) <(ls dir2/)
Ceefax is back!
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Alpine Linux default gateway on different subnet
As Alpine Linux uses busybox for a lot of its system tools it won’t set up the necessary routing if you have a default gateway on a non-local subnet to the IP. You want /etc/network/interfaces to look something like this: auto lo iface lo inet loopback auto eth0 iface eth0 inet static address IP.ADDR.ADDR.ADDR netmask …
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Nostalgy for Thunderbird 78+
The best thunderbird extension is now working on current Thunderbird. Please donate to the author!
Testing Enterprise Infrastructure changes with brownouts
Decommissioning or migrating services in enterprise environments will frequently reveal previously unknown dependencies which result in changes getting rolled back, wasting a lot of time. To try and head these issues off you can test these changes with “brownouts”, shutting off the relevant infra temporarily (eg at a weekend) to expose any hidden dependencies. When …
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