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10 unoffical NixOS packages worth checking out

NixOS already offers a lot of standard Linux packages in their stable repository. Some packages doesn’t get merged or haven’t been submitted yet, but I don’t want to miss them after switching from ArchLinux to NixOS. So I started to create my own selfhosted NUR repository which is equivalent to the ArchLinux User Repository (AUR). […]

Software

Auto authenticate to public wifis or test hotspots

This small Python script will automatically login to public hotspots or development networks. It monitors the iwd wireless lan network daemon and performs an authentication process as soon it is connected and a matching connection profile is present. Do not use this in production or against real public access points, since automatically logging in will […]

Software

Custom excerpts on the WordPress search page highlighting query keywords

In this post I’ll share a custom function for WordPress, which will tweak the text excerpts in the search result page to always show the part of the text which includes the search query. Usually Wordpess will only display the first words of the site or post in the search results page. This short excerpt […]

Hardware

Hardware fix for Dell “AC power adapter could not be determined”

My old but good Dell Latitude E6410 notebook stopped charging and working with the original Dell AC power adapter some months ago. It was working only sporadic but in most of the cases the blue led of the AC power adapter went off after plugging it in. I tried an other Dell power adapter but […]

Software

Cups AirPrint server with legacy printer driver support using Qemu

In this guide I’m going to explain how to setup a CUPS network printing server on an ARM-Linux which will still be able to use older or discontinued printer drivers, meant for other architectures, using Docker with Qemu platform emulation. Therefore we could use for example 32bit Linux printer drivers emulated inside the container on […]

Software

Host your own QuakeJS server on ArchLinux

Recently I discovered a very old project on Github which is somehow still actively maintained. It is a Javascript/WebGL port of the good old game Quake 3 Arena, called QuakeJS. This port in turn is based on the open-source, community game engine ioQuake. Even though there is a nice and working demo instance hosted on […]

Software

Linux with Wayland is now running on iPhone 7

Since the last post about running postmarketOS Linux on iPhone 7, I was finally able to mount and run larger and persistent system images from the iPhone system memory. Therefore I used the same technique Corellium was using in their Android build for the iPhone 7. Further, ephemeral write support for postmarketOS is achieved by […]

Software

Running postmarketOS on iPhone 7

Thanks to the developers of checkra1n and Corellium I was able to port PostmarketOS to the iPhone 7. Since I was only able to transfer small kernel images to the Phone, I only tested a very minimal PostmarketOS installation, but it is booting :) Image creation and flashing involves several steps. Lets start with preparing […]