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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.

If you want to play modern Minecraft ModPacks on CurseForge in Java on Linux, the Twitch Launcher for Windows is not very helpful.

But since the project artifacts are available for public download and the data format is pretty straightforward, it was not a big deal to script a download of all files. I have chosen an Ansible Playbook for this task.

I have already quite a zoo of Single-Board Computers running Debian derivates, but the latest pet Raspberry Pi Zero W was the first missing standard ethernet.