Posted on zo 05 maart 2023 in hosting
Last year I set up a Nextcloud instance for personal/family use. This was running as a VM on my HP Proliant server/Proxmox setup. An archive of about 80 GB of pictures and movies was quickly accumulated there.
With energy prices what they were at the time, I shut …
Posted on vr 03 maart 2023 in hardware
Ok so when I got my laptop it came with a leaflet stating that charging over USB-C was not possibly and should not be tried. So that was kind of a bummer, but I figured it would not cause me too much trouble.
Today I was browsing the Slimbook website …
Posted on vr 03 maart 2023 in software
So the audio quality I get from the internal microphone on my new Slimbook PROX is underwhelming when compared to the out the box experience on my Macbook Pro.
But surely I'm not the first one with this experience? Apparently not, because a quick search using Qwant revealed the NoiseTorch …
Posted on wo 01 maart 2023 in hardware
In my efforts to get the simplest solution to the problems encountered with the Slimbook, I switched to Zorin16 after a couple days to get newer libraries and a newer kernel. But soon enough I was fiddling with the inner workings of Linux on the Zorin install too. So getting …
Posted on di 14 februari 2023 in security
It took Apple forever to actually enable this. After trying it some time ago only to get the message 'not available in you region yet', I was able to enable Advanced Data Protection on my iCloud account tonight.
To get it to activate, I first assigned my wife as an …