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Notes on Tang, Clevis, Dracut and networking on boot.
The fix might be easier than you think!
Sometimes your smart switch can't be replaced. Here's a trick to cope with it: repeat the action!
Here is a protip for Plone theme customizers.
Turns out it's not that simple — but there's always a way.
Recent releases of either Qubes OS or Fedora have changed something that makes LibreOffice run dog-slow. Here's how to restore its former speed.
Have you ever wondered "did I shut off the gas on my grill" when you left home? Now you can find out, wherever you are!
While Home Assistant does not currently support range objects, you can definitely do this using built-in functionality.
Do one thing when a condition becomes true. Do another thing when all conditions become false.
Today you'll learn how to have Home Assistant assist you during steak cooking, oven use, pot roast preparation, and anything that requires you getting the temperature just right.
Free software users and privacy advocates have questions. This post has been at least partially confirmed, and will be continue updated as time goes by.
How to control your home or office lights based on doors, presence and motion.
Time savings from automation aren't the only motive to automate. In other words: Randall Munroe might not be totally correct after all.
In an urban environment, you may not always have a choice of placement for your A/C unit. But human ingenuity can be very fun — and Home Assistant certainly helps with that ingenuity.
A step-by-step guide to configuring Hue wall switch modes with only free software. Bonus: how to enable the second switch.
It's actually fairly straightforward with a simple tool called tshark.
Under Linux, some USB devices are flakier than we'd like to admit — especially in a Raspberry Pi.
Albeit this tip is only for X11 users — not necessarily Wayland users — it's nonetheless surprisingly easy.
A practical solution to share folders between Qubes OS qubes.
It's very easy to split your DVDs title by title (e.g. one video file per episode) on Linux.
Some smb.conf parameters cause default POSIX ACL masks to be incorrectly calculated.
Sometimes you need a specific qube to start up, or start one of its applications up, with a specific environment variable set to a specific value. This guide helps you accomplish that.
The problem may be in your browser. Here's the fix.
Matrix goes to great lengths to keep your conversations private. Here is a primer on how that works.
Here is a summary of what knowledgeable people do in order to browse the Web while minimizing data leakage and cross-site correlation / tracking.
The answer will highly depend on your use case.
This is a known Matrix bug, and there is a workaround for it.
A quick primer into how to get the testing environment of most common Plone add-ons going.
