To prevent accidental overwriting of files during synchronization - especially between multiple users and clients - Nextcloud relies on File Locking. This function is implemented at application level and therefore has no special requirements for the file system used. However, with large amounts of data and network …

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gnome-text-editor, the default editor of the GNOME desktop, usually remembers recently opened documents and reopens them on startup after a crash. This is particularly impractical if the crash is caused by opening a file that is too large (e.g. 20 MB JSON dump) or unsupported (e.g. binary file): Unfortunately, the …

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I have owned a foldable King Smith WalkingPad R1 Pro treadmill for the home office for some time now. This is controlled with a remote control via BLE (Bluetooth Low Energy). Unfortunately, this seems to consume quite a lot of power - at least the CR2032 battery in my treadmill always runs out after a short time. Since …

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When deploying a new AlmaLinux 9.3 VM under QEMU/KVM, I encountered the following error during the first boot: Unfortunately, the error message is not very informative. After I had ruled out a bug in the golden image I was using (manual deployments work), I came across a valuable hint in the Proxmox forum: EL9 requires …

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IEEE 802.1X is a standard for authentication and authorisation of devices in networks. Thus, physical LAN ports, VLANs or WLANs can only connect to the network after successful authentication, for example via RADIUS. Communication can be encrypted via TLS or PPP-EAP-TLS, for example. If this network configuration is to …

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Although there are now fewer and fewer reasons to use Windows for classic application programs, the Redmond operating system is unfortunately still needed, especially for supposed "enterprise software". The installation of the operating system is quickly done thanks to virt-install or virt-manager. For screen …

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The biggest highlight of the recently released FRITZ!OS version 7.50 is the added WireGuard support. Compared to the previous IPSec standard, which can still be used, VPN connections can be set up significantly easier on different platforms. It also offers stronger cryptographic algorithms and better performance …

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Since 2018, there has been a very elegant and lean container runtime, Podman, as an alternative to Docker. Podman offers a smaller attack surface due to omitted background services and is also often pre-installed on Red Hat-like operating systems. With a few tricks, existing docker-compose configurations can still be …

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When using ESPHome or esptool.py under Pop!_OS 22.04 I recently encountered the problem that development boards (ESP8266, ESP32) could not be flashed: 1$ esphome upload hurrdurr.yml 2INFO Reading configuration hurrdurr.yml... 3esptool.py v3.3.1 4Serial port /dev/ttyUSB0 5Connecting.... 6Chip is ESP8266EX 7Features: …

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One of the most important Git best practices is to write commits as atomic as possible - that is, to submit as few changes as possible, but as many as necessary. The advantage is obvious: commits can be reverted individually using git revert. If you mix bug fixes and new features wildly in one commit, you will undo …

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