Did you test your gluetun setup manually and made sure it generally works (e.g. by setting up another container that is connected to gluetun, go into the shell and try to ping a public service, that you’re sure isn’t blocking requests from VPN users)?

If it does work and only qBittorrent can’t connect, it could be due to the trackers blocking VPN users. I’m not torrenting but I’ve read about that in the past.

I have a Garmin Fenix 7s. This watch also has torx screws on the back. I wear it day and night for 3-4 years now, even when working in the garden etc. and the screw heads are completely clean. So I don’t think it’s an issue.

If you get the Rambler, it has a flathead on the file and a philips on the combi tool thingy. This is the one I have on my keychain and it’s amazing. Of course it’s definitely not so robust as the 91mm models.

Yubikeys. I have 2 of them and both have the same entries in case one breaks.

Unfortunately no, the new installation on the phone will not sync any previous chats from a desktop client.

I can totally understand that. In case you still want to give it a chance, I can highly recommend EndeavorOS. It’s basically pre-styled, pure Arch. But it has a welcome dialog, where you have a warning banner at the top if you need to be careful regarding an update. This directly links you to their Gitlab and forum with the steps you’d need to take to not break anything. This saved me multiple times already and I never broke my system, despite not even reading the Arch RSS feed or changelogs.

Besides the EndeavorOS forum is waaaay friendlier compared to the Arch one.

You probably won’t gain much right now, but as the development on Organic Maps has stalled, you might encounter bugs not being fixed, no new features etc. If it stays like that, you’d probably want to switch at some point.

According to my wife, I do indeed have a decent amount of rope on my person. Though I don’t know how that has anything to do with entering the US, I’ll take the safe route and stay home.

First there is a fork of Organic Maps, which is called CoMaps. If I understood it correctly, the development on Organic Maps nearly halted for some reason regarding the company that owns it. CoMaps now wants to pick it up again.

Also for navigation I use Magic Earth. It uses OSM data but is not FOSS itself, which is unfortunate. But it offers traffic data which is crucial for good arrival time estimation or avoiding traffic jams.

I think it’s mostly a matter of taste. Iirc Darktable offers more advanced options in regards to developing RAW files compared to RawTherapee. I moved from Lightroom directly to Darktable and I’m very happy with it. But maybe just try both and see what feels better to you.

I need to look it up again, but I read about a study that showed that the results improve if you tell the AI that your job depends on it or similar drastic things. It’s kinda weird.

Thank you again for this great post!

I’m a little skeptical about Manjaro on the ZOTAC. I used it for quite some time on a PC but it was always just a matter of time until it broke due to version conflicts. Developers for AUR packagages assume that you’re using the main Arch repo. So when you use the Manjaro repo, which is always a few weeks behind the official Arch one, the AUR updates break pretty regularly. Though you probably don’t want to use the AUR on a handheld anyway.

I see your point, but we have Java backends and strings there are not null terminated. Also I’m very sure that those would never be the reason for our Postgres server to run out of storage so I don’t get it why not make it more user friendly. We’re not implenting an embedded system where every byte of storage counts.

It can also be just a randomly chosen limit. I work as a software engineer on a custom management software for a big client. For whatever reason until recently, the limit for email addresses in the master data was 50 character. Why? No clue but someone had decided that randomly in the past. Now it was increased to 100. Why again? According to RFC 5321 a limit of 254 would be the most sensible one. But the people who come up with those requirements just don’t care. They decided it to be 100 from now on for no apparent reason.

Then we have many input fields, that have a limit of 255 character. Why not 256? Why such a weird number in general? The people who use this software in production are most likely not the ones who usually think in powers of two. So why not make it 250 or 300 oder whatever?

Sometimes those limits are just arbitrary with no technical or logical reason to back them up. Which doesn’t make it less stupid mind you.

And if you need it in a browser, there is Collabora, which exists as a paid business version with support or a free non-support version, that can easily be deployed with Nextcloud. Another alternative would be CryptPad.

If you also need your mails in your browser, there are multiple providers like mailbox.org that offer mail encryption even through the online mail interface.

Thank you for your amazing posts! I really enjoy them!

I grew up with trackballs because my dad preferred them to the old mice with a ball underneath. So for office work I still use one too. But it’s still just a pointing device so I’d say it would be similar to learn using a split keyboard or a dvorak layout or something. You’d still press one key after antother.

The CharaChorder is so different in the way your “typing” multiple keys at once. I feel like it has such a steep learning curve because you have to not only learn another button layout but the whole way your thinking about typing and writing in general. I’m afraid I’d just get frustrated and never use it, even though I thinks it’s extremely cool.

Do you mean the CharaChorder? I thought about getting one in the past bit it looks like a super steep learn curve and I’m not sure if I’m willing to subject myself to it.

I never tried to win any argument. Hell I was not even aware that I’m participating in one. I just wanted to share the info, that even if the vendor is absolutely trustworthy and even if you validated the script by downloading and looking at it, there’s still another hole that’s not obvious to see.

Yes it’s unlikely, but again, I never said it were. There are also arguments you can run curl with, to tell it to do the download first and then push it through the pipe afterwards, though I don’t know them by heart now.

It won’t cost you anything to set those parameters, when you insist to use curl | bash, just in the off chance that someone’s trying to do what I mentioned.

But I’m also someone who usually validates their downloads with a checksum so maybe I’m just weird. Who knows.

Oh, you’re welcome, kind person :)