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 [...]
You might have encountered websites with a pretty onion address that contains a human-readable prefix. I will show you how to get a custom onion address, using your GPU! Whats an onion address? An onion address can only be reached through Tor. It's like a domain name but which ends [...]
I created a Docker image with a build script, ready to use! Pulling my image My Docker image is public on Docker Hub and thus can be pulled easily with the following command (for 1.17): docker pull sindastra/spigotmc-build If you want to build older versions of Spigot (1.11.2 - 1.16.5) [...]
Today I will show you a free plugin that will boost your WordPress page speed, and also show you how to set it up! Autoptimize to optimize WordPress page speed In your WordPress Dashboard left panel click on Plugins and then at the top "Add New" and search for Autoptimize [...]
An SPF record is basically a DNS record of the TXT type, which contains information about who may send email from your domain. It is used to avoid spoofing and spam. So how does it work? Basically, when a (decent) email server receives an email that is supposedly originating from [...]
By default, Docker uses 172.17.0.0/16 for its default docker0 interface, which can be problematic if your network or a network you want to reach is on the same subnet as Docker. I will show you how to change Docker's network in a jiffy! Requirements Available subnet to assign to DockerPermission [...]