Somewhere between the last few weeks and my home server's upgrade to Debian Buster (pre-release), hdparm stopped putting the disks into standby. I had hdparm configured to put the server's disks to sleep after 10 minutes (which in hdparm speak translates to spindown_time 120). That used to work fine, until …
This is a quick summary on how to compile an existing LineageOS tree on Linux. LineageOS is one of the bigger Android distributions out there, so I'll provide instructions based on their tree, although most projects handle a very similar workflow, often being based on AOSP. LineageOS offers multiple features …
Read MoreLike a lot of stuff on the internet, this website is running off a VPS. Back in the days, when VPS'es weren't as ubiquitous and cheap, I used to have one with Linode, untill I took it offline because I really wasn't using it. Then, a few years later, I …
Read MoreMy brother decided he wanted a multi-room audio set-up in his new house, but also wanted to be able to play separate streams in each room. Things had to be done on a budget, so a Sonos set-up or something similar with a beefy receiver with multiple zone support was …
Read MoreThe PC Engines APU2 is an embedded system based on AMD's Jaguar family of processors. Many people prefer to run pfSense on it, but since the rest of my hardware is already on LEDE, it's easier for me to stick with that; the APU2 will manage a network running other …
Read MoreI recently purchased a Dell DA200 USB-C adapter to have Ethernet without needing to sacrifice one of the two regular USB 3 ports. Debian Testing picks it up just fine, according to dmesg:
[ 2.167530] usb 4-1.4: new SuperSpeed USB device number 3 using xhci_hcd
[ 2.184448] usb 4-1 …Let's Encrypt is a wonderful initiative providing free short-term certificates to anyone. The EFF kindly provides us with a Certbot, which quickly and easily installs and renews Let's Encrypt certificates. However, it does not support Lighttpd out of the box. Lighttpd wants your private key and domain certificate bundled together …
Read MoreOpenWrt/LEDE rely on the UCI framework for configuring the devices they run on. All common services (DNS, DHCP, firewall, dynamic DNS, ...) are configured through UCI, with the human-readable results being saved into configuration files in /etc/config. However, that's just for the user's convenience; UCI itself is a command …
The default images the Beagleboard project provides come with a preconfigured usb0 interface. I had been unable to replicate that with Debian's multiplatform armmp kernel, which is why I started building my own kernels. I recently found out that all one needs, however, is the g_ether module loaded (it doesn't …
Just wanted to drop a quick line on the young LibreELEC project, a fork of OpenELEC. It's still in its infancy, but it aims to address a few issues that the latter has been coping with. Quite a few developers joined already, and they intend to be open and transparent …
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