Something that always bothered me on DeviantArt was the missing feature to just download a gallery (for example your favourites folder) to your hard drive.

While ScalaCheck is a powerful library that comes with quite some generators already, you need to write your own for your custom types.

After upgrading some workstations from 14.

I even cannot remember why I started using the ssh daemon from ports (openssh-portable) but it might have been some feature I needed at that time.

If you upgrade your FreeBSD installation you should also upgrade your bootloader (bootcode) too.

Recently I got inspired to try out the December Adventure and so here we are.

It has been nearly two years now since I switched from Sylpheed to aerc as my daily driver for email.

While Sylpheed still is an awesome email client my switch was triggered by more heavy usage of a laptop than before and the discovery of usability problems I thought long solved like:

• very high resolution but applications either zoomed / scaled which results in less space than needed
• unwieldy mouse handling (touch pads suck)
• after disabling application zooming fonts and icons were barely readable

The default expectation of the wonderful aerc email client is the usage of abook as address book. Also most people seem to use calcurse for calendars. However what if we want to switch?

Some of us prefer to use console (text terminal) tools for productivity and that is just fine. In this tutorial we’ll explore how to synchronise address books and calendars via the DAV protocols for the khard address book and the khal calendar.

The trouble started when emails were coming in claiming first “Fail” and later “DegradedArray” events of a software raid running on a Debian Linux server. Looking into logs revealed an SSD (NVMe) died but let us look at it step by step.

Because setting an environment variable via a shell init file doesn’t seem to be en vouge in modern linux distributions we need to find other ways. To spare you breaking precious hardware in the process here is the solution:

You can define “.conf” files within the directory ~/.config/environment.d/ that may contain one variable definition per line and out of these the startup environment for your window manager will be constructed.