In case you want to use extensions like pass-otp or pass-import with “the standard unix password manager” NixOS is using a special package specification.

Installing the packages separately will raise no error, but pass import will not provide the expected feature, instead it tries to lookup a password entry for import.

The well-known kernel options i915.enable_dc=0 and intel_idle.max_cstate=1 are still helpful with my latest installation of NixOS 24.5 on this device.

You can normally query a Windows OEM Product Key bound to your hardware in a Linux shell quite easily:

Don’t miss to add kernel options i915.enable_dc=0 and intel_idle.max_cstate=1, if you want to run a modern arch linux on your Dell Latitude 7490.

If you want to start with Kubernetes on your workstation or even want to test with small clusters, I really recommend to take a look at Rancher’s k3s.

I want to introduce a little command fu for reporting broken symlinks on the shell, because I found several variations while searching in the net, that were not very satisfying.

In the former post Ansible meets CurseForge on Linux I described the installation and updates of Minecraft ModPacks with Ansible for Linux users.

Now it’s team to mention MultiMC for a more user-friendly solution also ready for Linux.

Just before X-mas I migrated this site to https://b2g.h11e.de/.

While evaluation a new setup for a mail service including SMTP, IMAP, Web GUI, AntiSpam etc. someone kindly recommended mailcow-dockerized.

Recent versions of the Docker CLI support the prune option in different flavors to keep the system clean.

If your disk capacity is exceeded by Docker’s data folder (e.g. /var/lib/docker) it’s time to cleanup at least the images and this is much more comfortable than usage of filters and pipelines in the past.

But I also want to bring some risks into focus.