Linux

On the Hardware This post is originally wrote earlier this year, back then I bought an used HP EliteDesk 705 G4 Mini as a cheap NUC alternative. For its price and availability, I choose this model over Intel NUC but it turned out NUC may be the better option. It comes with a 4 core 8 thread CPU, Ryzen 5 2400GE with 35W TDP. If set it up as a Proxmox server with enough RAM, it can run about 2-3 VMs to run some light services. But now, my plan is to configure it as a remote portal with RustDesk client. ...

After months of disappearing, I’m able to come back blogging, with A LOTS of drafts. I’ll be updating more details about my current situation in a more dedicated post. But for now, let’s talk something technological interesting. Dell Optiplex 3050 Micro has been my ideal open source desktop PC for quite a while, probably since the first time when Libreboot added its support. Recently, I got the chance to have one of these as an upgrade from my older mini PC build. ...

This has been a problem for a while now. That green dot and popup notification persisted on my Mullvad browser makes me feel like using a bloatware than a FOSS. The right way to do this is either follow their upstream Tor browser update model—just force updating seamlessly without any user interaction. Or, like LibreWolf, manual update with the system package manager. This situation might be because of I’m using the portable version of Mullvad browser. If that’s the case, I shouldn’t blame it. ...

Background with Kicksecure Last year, I set up my Monero Wallet with Kicksecure and happy about it. This distro is really lightweight and easy to use. However, it failed completely after a recent upgrade, which was a major version leap from Debian 12 to 13. It lost drivers, desktop environment stopped working and probably much more which I couldn’t discover because I stacked at a login screen loop. After troubleshooting for a couple of hours, it turns out all lightdm related DEs are unusable and Gnome and KDE are working. ...

After almost two years later, the hardware of my Openmediavault NAS is going to be upgraded from Vostro to Precision. Which is a big leap, that I don’t have to do any hardware modification to use Xeon CPUs. Thanks for my friend’s donation. This junkstation comes with E3-1245, 16GB and 4 SATA HDD port. What I added is a ASMedia 106x SATA PCIE card for 2 more SATA HDD capacity (6 HDD in total), and a PCIe to NVMe adapter for accommodating a OS drive (128GB SSD). ...