The struggle is real: for day-to-day work, leveraing several web applications such as messenger or customized booking systems is necessary. After a short time you will mostly have a flood of browser tabs and lose track.

Using nativefier it is possible to package websites into desktop applications.

Some websites and …

When using Ansible under WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) recently, I stumbled upon the following error:

1Failed to create temporary directory.
2In some cases, you may have been able to authenticate and did not have permissions on the target directory. Consider changing the remote tmp path in ansible.cfg to a path …

Recently I stumbled upon the following error when registering a new openSUSE system in Uyuni:

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In the last part of this series, we enabled the voice assistant to read temperature sensors and checking the weather over the internet. In this article, we will ensure entainment by implementing a DIY internet radio and an API for bad jokes.

Radio streams under Linux

A commonly used function of commercial voice …

Sometimes Spacewalk still suggests updates and errata for a system even though they have already been installed. Especially for bigger system landscapes this is confusing as planning maintenance using the web interface is hard in this way.

1# zypper update scout
2Refreshing service 'spacewalk'.
3Loading …

There are plenty of radiators and fans for the small single-board computer - but how big is the impact of using cooling? Don't get me wrong - having a cooling system is always better than having no cooling at all. But I was curious about the exact difference with the current top model (RPi 4B, 4 GB).

First of all it is …

In the last part of this series we linked Rhasspy and Node-RED to teach the assistant its first function: reading the current date and time. In this part we will focus on measuring temperature via the internet and DIY temperature guards based on ESP32 and MQTT.

DIY temperature guard

Temperature sensors are cheap and …

If you forget the root password (or a user password) of your WSL installation (Windows Subsystem for Linux), using the registry might help you. Because WSL is rather a lightweight kernel expansion than a full-featured VM, the typical live-CD trick (mounting the filesystem and running chroot) won't help.

Below the path …

In the last part of this series we checked-out and installed software for building our own voice assistant without leverage cloud resources. In this article we will focus on linking both Rhasspy and Node-RED. At the end, the assistant will learn it's first function.

Desired state

As we already know from the last …