Ubuntu Touch? For those who may not remember, in around 2011, Canonical, the company behind the Ubuntu GNU/Linux operating system, wanted to expand their market, and among other things started…
Fixing a Contabo Deepseek server
You may have seen that Contabo are offering a one-click Deepseek server based on their VDS offering. These are semi-virtualised servers with dedicated processors and memory but shared storage, which…
Proxy Mailcow behind Nginx Proxy Manager the easy way
A quick one as no-one seems to have written it down properly.Mailcow (https://mailcow.email) is a dockerized mail system. By default it will run on port 80 and port 443 of…
Fixing a frozen screen caused by systemd 256
Systemd version 256 has been rolled out in several distributions recently, including Arch and Debian and variants. It adds a feature where user sessions are frozen when the system enters…
A fix for ‘cert is required but missing for this certificate’ in certbot
Yes, this is probably a bit search spammy (like search actually works any more), but it’s an interesting little fix and a view into how certbot works. Apart from when…
Adventures in BTRFS – Replacing an array
Preamble ramble There aren’t a lot of real world examples of using BTRFS around online. Some of the most useful advice I found was in r/BTRFS on Reddit but it’s…
Adding S3-compatible cloud storage to Pixelfed
Pixelfed is a federated photo sharing service that is an alternative to Instagram and uses ActivityPub to share posts across other services such as Mastodon, Pleroma and indeed WordPress. It…
Adding an IPv6 default route with network-scripts in an EL8 server at OVH
This is a bit of a niche one, not least because network-scripts is supposed to be on its way out as a configuration method, despite cPanel still not supporting NetworkManager…
Disabling a Wacom laptop touchscreen in an Arch Linux based OS (without disabling everything else)
My main laptop is a Lenovo X1 Yoga 2nd Gen running Manjaro KDE Plasma. Lovely machine and does what I want it to do. As a Yoga device, it has…
A touch of email scam forensics
I deal with a number of clients in the legal profession, and this morning one of them forwarded me an email which he thought was suspicious. It appeared to be…