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The Tor Browser for Linux comes as compressed tarball (.tar.xz) which you extract somewhere, however it does not add itself to the start menu. I'll show you how to add it yourself! So let's say you just downloaded tor-browser-linux64-9.0.10_en-US.tar.xz and extracted the folder tor-browser_en-US somewhere (I recommend to extract it [...]
The Nextcloud client does add itself to autostart on Linux, however I don't see a tray icon by default. I'll show you how to fix it. After the installation, Nextcloud creates a bad entry to the "autostart", which needs to be replaced with the correct entry as follows: Go to [...]
Sometimes you have to SSH into different devices with the same IP address, for example when you flash routers with OpenWrt and want to do initial configuration. One annoyance with that is fingerprint checking, as the fingerprint will be different for every new device but the IP will stay the [...]
A theoretical setup where the encryption key is in the initramfs. You are encouraged to put /boot on a separate USB stick, or if you know what you're doing, make sure you're using classic HDDs, where you can safely erase the key on decommission.
In a recent blog post I had to recover a deleted file from a public git repository to share with you. Today I will show you how it's done. In this particular case, I needed a file with old UDEV rules. I knew the name and location of the file [...]
You can find out really easily with one simple command: systemd-analyze Which will output something like: Startup finished in 9.708s (firmware) + 3.692s (loader) + 46.909s (kernel) + 13.614s (userspace) = 1min 13.924s graphical.target reached after 12.063s in userspace So as you can see, my laptop takes ages to boot. [...]
Not all my FIDO U2F keys (for e.g. Yubikey) were working under Linux and as it turns out, I had to add UDEV rules. I'll show you how. First, which rules you have to use depend on your UDEV version. You can check your version with: sudo udevadm --version All [...]
You might want to have your own /etc/resolv.conf but it keeps getting overwritten or lost. I have the solution! On systems like Ubuntu 18.04, by default the file /etc/resolv.conf is controlled by systemd-resolved. Usually it fetches the DNS servers and domain name (search domain) from DHCP and writes it to [...]
You might be using block lists by hosts-file.net but you shouldn't! One of the default block lists that used to be included with Pi-hole was https://hosts-file.net/ad_servers.txt but this is not maintained anymore, which is why it's got excluded from the defaults. But that doesn't mean it will get automatically removed [...]
You might want to check what packages you installed on OpenWrt, for example when wanting to build a custom image based on your installation or to restore the packages after an upgrade. I found a neat little script that lets you do just that! The script I found on a [...]