René's old blog
Whatever I feel like posting, whenever
This site goes back some twenty-five years, so it is bound to be full of stale links and irrelevant information. It is, at best, updated irregularly.
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I’ve installed Debian testing (Trixie) on a StarLite tablet from Starlaps Systems, and everything just worked.
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Changing owner of a calendar in Nextcloud
How to move a Nextcloud calendar from one user to another.
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A WordPress-Nextcloud writing workflow
My writing workflow is half WordPress, half Nextcloud, half Markdown, half HTML.
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Paste with two-finger tap in Wayland [solved]
Wayland once didn’t have the option to paste using a two-finger tap, but it does now, albeit a bit hidden.
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Post length with ActivityPub
The ActivtyPub plugin is great, but too often sends way too long posts to the Fediverse
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OpenWrt and DMZ
The steps needed to create a basic DMZ on an OpenWrt router.
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synogear install
The command “synogear install” will install a hidden DiagnosticTools package on a Synology NAS.
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Hyphens and dashes in WordPress
One or more hyphens in WordPress can produce a single hyphen (-), an en dash (–) or an em dash (—), but it’s not entirely straightforward.
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De-googling
I have tried for ages to de-google. Not just from Google itself, but all the big ones — Google, Apple, Meta, Amazon. However, de-googling is not easy.
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ActitivityPub and DDOS
Sharing your WordPress posts through ActivityPub has a price – your web server needs to be configured properly
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Synology DS720+ and NVME drives – followup
A while ago I managed to use the NVME drives on a Synology DS720+ NAS as drives, which has worked fine — until today.