Helios64 reloaded: Armbian Trixie w/ stock Samba & Radicale – Back in 2022 I wrote up my Openmediavault & Nextcloud on Armbian Server Helios64 setup. Omarchy 4 on 12" MacBook8,1 – Episode three of my ongoing love affair w/ the MacBook Retina, 12-inch, Early 2015: after elementary OS 6 “Odin” (2021) and Clear Linux (2022), the fanless wonder now runs Omarchy 4—Arch + Hyprland, … Gemini Generated Image crumpy dev donauwörth sunset by maptoposter How to mount an ext4 Linux USB drive on macOS in 2024 – How hard can it be, right? Dreaming of container focused macOS on ARM workstation – This post is about me dreaming of setting up a container focused development workstation on macOS ARM. Dreaming of Project Bluefin (Fedora Silverblue) on Lenovo ThinkPad X13s Gen 1 – Honestly, immediately from the first day of installing and using Project Bluefin on my Khadas Mind —my daily driver— I’m dreaming of having the same Linux experience as well as Developer Experience … OpenBSD on Lenovo ThinkPad X270 – Again, not a tutorial but rather some personal notes for future self consumption. Raspberry Pi OS on MNT Reform with CM4 Adapter (RCM4) – Rather immediately when made available via MNT Shop I ordered the MNT Reform CM4 Processor Module Adapter. OpenBSD on Protonet Maya – Photo src ref: Protonet Press Materials. Linux on Khadas Mind – I backed the Kickstarter for Khadas Mind: Your Next-Gen Modular Workstation and today (2023-11-11) recieved the Khadas Mind Premium. Stressberry the Argon POLY+ Raspberry Pi 4 Vented Case with PWM 30mm Fan with and without thermal pad – In the process of evaluating case options for the upgrade of a “Poor Man’s Raspberry Pi NAS” from a Raspberry Pi 3 Model B Rev 1.2 to a Raspberry Pi 4 Model B Rev 1.5 I stressberry-tested the Argon … Linux on ThinkPad X13s Gen 1 – This is to document my ordeal #EmbraceTheSuck journey and work-in-progress of daily driving a Lenovo ThinkPad X13s Gen 1. iPad & Debian Regolith Desktop on Shells.com – Create a Shell Plus (2vCPU, 4 GB RAM) Shell w/ Debian Bullseye GNOME. Clear Linux on 12" MacBook8,1 – Update 2026‑10‑26: Clear Linux is history. Openmediavault & Nextcloud on Armbian Server Helios64 – Update 2026‑10‑26: this setup is history. Portable & versatile Raspberry Pi 4 development server setup – The general idea for an Raspberry Pi based portable development setup is not new. Modding my ZT 0230+0235 with Micarta Scales from RGT – No doubt, I was really—like REALLY—excited when my prefered knife online shop Altonaer Silber Werkstatt anounced that they are stocking micarta scales from Ripps Garage Tech (RGT) for the Zero … Introducing Trimir Journal—Your personal activity "Tricorder" for elementary OS – Designed and built for personal text journaling and activity tracking on elementary OS. elementary OS 6 Odin Cheat Sheet – Some useful commands that I cannot or do not want to remember or that I use regularly: elementary OS 6 "Odin" on 12" MacBook8,1 – I first tried various early access builds as well as the Betas (1 and 2) in demo mode (a.k.a live)—see screenshot above. TIL rmw—Remove to Waste – I’ve learned about a nice litle cli utitliy: rmw MNT Reform open source laptop—DIY Edition – I’ve losely followed the project over the years and ultimately backed the crowdfunding campaign on Crowd Supply back in May 2020 and received my DIY Kit in March 2021. Patching httpd(8)—working with OpenBSD src – Though clearly NOT recommended, I went w/ patching httpd(8) on OpenBSD (UPDATES 7.0-stable and 7.1-stable) 7.7-stable (not -current) as recommended by httpd-plus. Kirby and httpd(8) on OpenBSD—also static site generation – I’ve briefly mentioned the tech stack that I’m using for this website. Enjoying a CMS—Kirby Edition – I’m now using Kirby as the content management system for this website. Website Tech—2021 Edition – I use Kirby, a file-based content management system written in PHP, to edit the content of the 2021 “edition” of my website. OpenBSD on Dell Latitude X1 – Even though I’m far from switching to *bsd as my daily driver I’m eager to have a OpenBSD laptop around. Datacake LoRaWAN Integration – Just today, I’ve stumbled on Datacake (SaaS). My Clear Linux* Setup – Update 2026‑10‑26: Clear Linux is history. Sxmo—Simple and Suckless X Mobile Pinephone UI – Just yesterday I stumbled on the Hacker News post about Sxmo: Simple X Mobile – A Pinephone UI that is simple and suckless. xsv—a fast CSV cli toolkit written in Rust – In recent years I’ve become an avid user of csvkit, a suite of command-line tools for converting to and working with CSV—which for me has become the king of tabular file formats. Delta Chat—Chat over e-mail – The team of the open source messenger application Delta Chat just recently released their iOS client… ZenJournal—simple and efficient journaling – Finally, a fast, simple (a.k.a. OpenSnitch application firewall for Linux – I’ve installed OpenSnitch, a GNU/ Linux port of the rather well known macOS application Little Snitch… Tailscale—Mesh VPN – I’m quite exited by the idea as well as the team behind Tailscale: a mesh VPN—claiming and aiming for “Private networks made easy [finally]"…