Problem: Windows automatically goes to dark or light mode, no matter what is set in the system settings. Even worse: when you change the mode in the system settings, windows switches back after a few seconds.
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Stuff that was hard to find & fix
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How to get RSS feeds for Releases / Tags on GitHub
With growing amount of running selfhosted services, it becomes a bit tedious to keep track of new software releases.
Luckily, GitHub offers RSS Streams for Releases and Tags (and some more). By adding those streams to the RSS reader, I see it in my RSS feeds when I have to take action.
The relevant URLs follow those are:
https://github.com/:owner/:repo/releases.atom https://github.com/:user/:repo/tags.atomSome more feeds are
https://github.com/:owner/:repo/commits.atom https://github.com/:user.private.atom?token=:secret https://github.com/:user.atomFound via RSS feeds for your Github releases, tags and activity | by Ronalds Vilcins | Medium
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Farewell to my 11.5-Year-Old RaspberryPi Weather Station
Eleven and a half years ago, I built my first RaspberryPi weather station using sensors from Tinkerforge. Today, I shut it down for good. Not because it failed — but because its job is done. It’s been replaced by a Netatmo setup, and unfortunately, I don’t need it anymore. But admitting that a project’s lifespan is over always takes some effort — well, to me at least.
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How to get the ‘<‘, ‘>’ and ‘|’ keys on a Dell Latitude 5300
Since a while I am using a refurbed Dell Latitude 5300. I’m pretty happy with it. Just recently I was doing some stuff via SSH on my RaspberryPIs when I noticed that the Dell’s keyboard does not contain the ‘<‘ key. Not a big deal usually – just Linux Shell working is quite uncool without the ‘>’ and the pipe ‘|’ characters.
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How to solve weird Docker Errors on Ubuntu
After being so happy about all the services that I brought up last weekend, I forgot to do one thing: rebooting. Today I rebooted for some reason and the containers didn’t came up again.
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How to Use a Lenovo ThinkCentre M910q as a Powerful Home Server
As an IT enthusiast, I’ve long been (and still are!) a fan of the #RaspberryPi mini computers. My main Pi already runs multiple services like #PiHole, #Navidrome and #Jellyfin – which often pushes it near its limits. Well, recently I found myself wanting to add even more services to my local network. Unfortunately, my NAS can’t host Docker containers, so expanding compute power became necessary.
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How to batch migrate Repos from Bitbucket to Codeberg
When I was browsing through my code archive, I noticed that I was missing some projects and wondered where I had left them after my recent re-install. Just then I noticed that I still had some private repos at Bitbucket. As I just needed a place to back up the code, I decided that I could move it to Codeberg.
Codeberg describes itself as “[…] a non-profit, community-led effort that provides Git hosting and other services for free and open source projects.”. Codeberg e.V. itself is a registered non-profit association based in Berlin, Germany.
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How to check the Email Security Level of your Provider
If you’ve ever wondered which security protocols your email-provider supports, there is an easy way that I found via Mastodon:
The European Commision provides My Email Communications Security Assessment (MECSA) (https://mecsa.jrc.ec.europa.eu/) with which you can quickly check, which of the protocols your provider supports (StartTLS, x509 Ceerts, SPF, DKIM, DMARC, DANE, DNSSEC).
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How to delete all content from LinkedIn
As I’ve written earlier, I’m going more and more away from LinkedIn (like here and here). During my #unplugTrump activity, I decided that I want to go a step further and remove all my content (posts, answers, likes) from LinkedIn. On Mastodon, I have auto-delete activated already for various reasons. Now I wanted to clean up LinkedIn, too!
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How to set up Navidrome for MP3 Streaming on a RaspberryPi
Recently I noticed that I hardly ever listen my MP3 music collection – mainly because I don’t like my music players (both on mobile and on the desktop). So, let’s look for a nicer player!
I had only two constraints: 1) it should be able to use the files from OneDrive/NAS and 2) it should be able to cache them (in case of no connectivity). And as I went through the candidates, I stumbled across Navidrome:
Navidrome allows you to enjoy your music collection from anywhere, by making it available through a modern Web UI and through a wide range of third-party compatible mobile apps, for both iOS and Android devices.
Navidrome also supports Playlists and Internet-Radio! Nice. So why not let it run on a RaspberryPi at home and make it available through my VPN? But would I have enough RAM left? I just tried!
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