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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...

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...

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...

Today I wanted to upload the SCP Foundation files to my reMarkable for an upcoming vacation. Unfortunately, accessing the web interface of the device at http://10.11.99.1/ was more than problematic to the point of breaking repeatedly, if it was accessible using stupid ass NetworkManager and Firefox relying on its broken...

Last year I added a magnetic field sensor to my gas meter to monitor gas consumption. The sensor closes when it detects a change in the surrounding magnetic field, and the spinning disc in my gas meter is magnetic at the “0” position, so I know the amount of gas...