“Sometimes it is music that was made 5 minutes ago by somebody, and sometimes it is music that might have been made 500 years ago, but if just find it that day then it's new to you.”
I did something stupid again. I noticed it, when I received notifications from my Prometheus monitoring. The probe that sends HTTP requests to my Nextcloud server was failing. Strangely, no other probes were failing. No high load, no memory exhaustion, no filesystem running full. Manual testing confirmed that all my other web-apps worked as expected, …
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I’m running Ubuntu on my laptop, using the standard disk-encryption that the Ubuntu installer provides. (Well, the one it provided a couple of years back, when I last installed from scratch.) This setup uses cryptsetup with LUKS on the main partition. This in turn contains an LVM physical volume, which contains a volume group with …
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Since my old notebook computer recently gave up on me, I had to install a new one from scratch. I finally decided to give Ubuntu a go, after I had been using Debian (testing) for almost a decade. I must say that I’m really impressed with Ubuntu’s lean installation process, which handles diverse aspects like …
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One of the things I use my new phone most for, is listening to music. Unfortunately the Nexus One came with a set of regular earbuds, whereas I prefer canalphones. So I started to look for an alternative… Wireless Audio Basics The Nexus One has a regular 3.5mm TRRS headphone socket, so it should be …