Random tech topics I find interesting to share
I’ve been using Home Assistant for a while now. It is not ideal, but it does work and you can pretty much make it do anything you need for your home automation. My HA runs on a Raspberry Pi4, and I use a CC2531 ZigBee USB dongle to communicate with the Ikea and Philips lights,…
Pi-hole is the best way to get rid of all the ads on all of your devices on your local network. You set it up as your DNS server and it blackholes all the requests for ad servers. No more ads on your network!
I got quite the surprise today while opening a file for editing using vim. fx@teikapi2:~ sudo vim /etc/hosts Segmentation fault Say what? Vim, segfaulting? Okay. There was an automatic apt-get upgrade on this machine today, so that is the explanation. Still quite weird and most definitely not expected. Quick backtrace under gdb showed: #0 _dl_lookup_symbol_x…