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This small RISC-V homeserver can host almost anything 🚀

Getting NixOS running with various web services and features on this StarFive VisionFive 2 SBC took some years but finally it’s taking shape. If you’re reading this blog post, you reached our new tiny homeserver in the basement of our living community in Karlsruhe, Germany. It’s running behind a standard cable internet NAT and a […]

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Aus dem Archiv: Double rainbow power toilet flush

Ein cooler Hack von Schitzu und NeutrinoPower, der auf jeden Fall gegen Kalk im Sanitärbereich hilft! Damit diese Ingenieurleistung für die Nachwelt erhalten bleibt, haben wir hier die Videodokumentation von armageddon422 archiviert.

Software

Record radio stations usig NixOS and systemd-timers

Following snippet in this article will help you record your favorite radio shows using ffmpeg and systemd-timers. We schedule two different recordings, one at Sun *-*-* 21:59:00, meaning every Sunday at 10 PM and an other one at Mon..Fri 18:59:00 Europe/London, which means every weekday at 7 PM London time. The script automatically creates the […]

Software

Nix Flake development environment for WordPress

Following example provides a Nix Flake snippet which will spawn a virtual machine with WordPress running on NixOS locally. Custom plugin or theme sources can be mounted into the VM for development purpose. Let’s start with the Flake-file itself. It can be created inside your theme or plugin directory which you want to work on. […]

Software

Linux WSL2 printing server on Windows 10

Printing on Windows is sometimes troublesome. When it is not working, you won’t have any chance to fix it yourself, debug or configure it more in-depth. This guide will show you a workaround on how to use the Linux CUPS printing client and server on Windows 10 using WSL2. The CUPS printer will be then […]

Artwork

Drawing Faces 360 – like you mean it! Tutorial and Technical Breakdown

I’ve created a Tutorial on how to draw faces from different angles in Clip Studio Paint.So wether you are making illustrations with pen and paper or draw webtoons digitally this tutorial might be for you! Clip Studio Paint (hereinafter called CSP) is arguably the industry leading software for creating digital comics and illustrations. It’s featureset […]

Hardware

Replacing defective BGA-Chip with wires on Wacom Cintiq Companion 2 tablet

A PI-Crew member bought a used Wacom Cintiq Companion 2 in good condition for his 9 years old son who is really into arts. Everything was fine but after an upgrade to Windows 10 the screen showed some artefacts and eventually went completely dark. Soon after that he found out that a lot of people […]

Software

Nextcloud development environment on NixOS

Using nixos-shell it is easy to build and run a virtual machine from a Nix configuration file describing the system. I started using this tool to create clean and reproducible test environments for developing Nextcloud apps. The requirement for this setup was to automatically configure Nextcloud, additional apps and users for testing. The Nextcloud service […]