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The NanoPi R3S by FriendlyElec is a small and affordable single-board computer with two NICs, making it suitable for use as a router on your desk. It is available for about 35 CHF on AliExpress. You c...

Since I was a child, small computers fascinated me. I remember playing with my dads Psion Revo. It fascinated me how much you could do with such a small device. A whole ecosystem of apps to explore, a...

Long time no see, huh? Let’s try to bring this habit back. Recently I started using the Fish shell again. Fish is greeting you every time you open a new instance. To disable this you can set the var...

Another month went by. Here are my gems of the month. Compressing PDFs isn’t a simple task, because it’s a complex format with different medias embedded. Ghostscript is a powerful tool to manipulate P...

We are already at the end of January. Time flies. Here are my gems of the month. Recently I wanted to use a GPG key to sign my git commits. I didn’t know the steps from the top of my head so I want to...

Hopefully I get back to the habit after a trip to Asia. Archlinux package manager Pacman stores a list of mirrors from which the packages are loaded. This list is located in . is a tool to manage t...

One step closer to building a habit out of this. These are my findings in October 24”. Not long ago I’ve bought a Logitech MX Mechanical Mini. Typing feels good on it and it is quiet for being a mecha...

This article is a collection of gems I encountered during September 24”. Hopefully a series or habit will develop out of this. I’ve found useful in combination with to style elements when an input...

The University of Zurich uses Ivantis Pulse Secure in combination with Microsoft Single Sign On (SSO) as their VPN technology. I want to explain here how to connect this VPN when using Arch Linux. For...

helps to make system images like ISO bootable from a USB drive. Once you have Ventoy installed on a USB drive, it is as simple as copying ISO files to the mounted USB drive and you are ready to go. T...