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Dymo Labelwriter PnP silenty failing when using labelle

Posted on zo 26 oktober 2025 in 2025

Just a couple of weeks ago I tried using my Dymo Labelwriter PnP with labelle, but it seemed to have stopped working. As I was using the device with another Linux distribution in the past, I kinda assumed a software problem.

Labelle, previously known as dymoprint, is a very nice …


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#RunBSD on a twelve year old Macbook Pro

Posted on za 25 oktober 2025 in runbsd

To run things in parallel for my RunBSD project, I needed some extra devices. Going onto Marktplaats/Ebay is easy enough, but I want to avoid adding more devices to my stock.

MBP Cheetah running OpenBSD 7.8

To have somewhat of a 'server system' at home in the RunBSD VLAN, I considered using a leftover …


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Planning to RunBSD

Posted on di 21 oktober 2025 in runbsd

After my interest in OpenBSD was renewed a couple of years ago, the idea was to replace existing things with OpenBSD things here and there. So in my homelab both the ingress and egress web proxies #RUNBSD. And there is ofcourse virtual server Petpuffy, serving a couple of websites using …


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Running home assistant for our scout centre

Posted on wo 15 oktober 2025 in 2025

The scout centre I volunteer for wants to get beter insight in their power usage. As I had a Raspberry Pi 4 in storage for a new project, this seemed the perfect way to repurpose it.

Home assistant screenshot

At home I run the home assistent OS on a Pi and the Pi …


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Laptop draait nu Debian13 als Desktop OS

Posted on zo 05 oktober 2025 in 2025

De laatste keer dat ik Debian als desktop installeerde, was Debian 12 nog de stable release. Dus bij het opnieuw inrichten van mijn Dell XPS 9550 als Debian gebaseerde desktop waren er wat kleine zaken die ik bij moest werken in het ansible playbook wat ik daar normaliter bij gebruik …


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