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Fixing recipient_delimiter in postfix/dovecot/mariadb/ldap
01 Jun 2025 | Read more... | comments
For a long while now I used a throwaway email domain where literally AnyStupidCombo@throwaway.example.com would be delivered to my primary mailbox. That works very well for me personally, but it doesn’t scale to a mailserver of ~20 active users (ie: closest family). I never did get the + delimited version...
Using an Ergolutions / Tuya Desk controller with Home Assistant
15 Sep 2024 | Read more... | comments
A year or so ago I got one of my best additions to my Home Office: a convertible standing desk. I can raise it up to stand at it, or lower it down to sit, or have it somewhere in between so I can store my chair underneath the desk...
Connecting to LANCom VPN via NetworkManager / StrongSWAN
24 Jun 2024 | Read more... | comments
Recently my wife switched from Windows to Linux on her personal laptop. She also uses the device to connect to her employer’s VPN through a BYOD policy, so I wanted to setup the VPN connection, an excercise I expected to take all of two minutes. Ha-ha, right. Fair warning: I...
Periodic water / gas / utility consumption graphs
20 Jun 2024 | Read more... | comments
I’ve been searching for this for a long time, scouring the homeassistant forums, implementing workarounds, but nothing was really satisfying. Until I found https://www.home-assistant.io/dashboards/statistics-graph/ for HomeAssistant. This has finally enabled me to implement proper daily / weekly / monthly consumption graphs for my water and gas meters. It’s a dashboard...
Die versteckten Kosten des Bahnfahrens
12 Apr 2024 | Read more... | comments
Man bekommt ja oft gesagt, wie viel billiger Bahnfahren statt Autofahren sei, und bei kurzen Strecken stimme ich da auch unumwunden zu. Will man jetzt allerdings als vierkoepfige Familie Urlaub machen habe ich immer mehr Schwierigkeiten, meine Familie von der Bahn zu ueberzeugen: Im letzten Urlaub geriet ich damit bereits...