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- by Adrian Grimm.

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[Tutorial]: Maximizing Control Over Your Internet Connection

Part-1: A Guide to Custom Hardware and Configuration

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In Germany, fast and high-quality internet is still rare due to lacking infrastructure. As a private customer, it's challenging to get a full internet connection with fixed IPv4 and IPv6 addresses, as well as reverse DNS PTR records. While only a few providers like Vodafone offer such things, other…

  • Fiber Internet
  • Networking
  • OPNsense
  • Hardware
Approx. 7 minutes to complete

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macOS - External Keyboard keys are swapped (solved)

Sometimes macOS could be painful..

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Issue My case: < and ^ keys are swapped < Key (right of SHIFT) ^ Key (left of 1) This is because macOS set the wrong keyboard type (ISO, ANSI, JIS, ..) even if the config wizard shows the right result. On QMK based keyboards: KC_NUBS ISO: < > ANSI: Non-US \ and | KC_GRV ISO: ^ ° ANSI…

  • Keyboard
1 minute read

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[Tutorial]: Wifi with OpenWrt

Banana Pi R3 as Wifi Access-Point

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I have used DD-WRT in the past with Linksys devices and found it very good. So far I have used a Synology router as an access point - but I thought the next wifi solution should be based on open source software. This idea was mainly inspired by the positive experience of using OPNSense with Dec74…

  • OpenWrt
  • Wifi
  • OpenSource
Approx. 7 minutes to complete

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Keyboard Guide

The question of compromise (IMHO)

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I type ~40-70h on different Keyboards every week and in the last years I had used over 25 different ones. I also assembled my own Keyboards. In this post I want to share my favorits for each situation and some tipps. My Keyboard recommendations 1. „HomeOffice“: Filco Majestouch Convertible 2 TKL…

  • Keyboard
4 minute read

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PowerShell Config for Developers

PowerLine, Suggestions and more

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As a Developer in the Microsoft Tech-Stack you may like to work with a powerful shell. On Windows there is the PowerShell 7 - but like nearly every other shell, the base config is not as usefull for development tasks as it could be. This post gives some ideas of how the UI/UX could get improved…

  • windows
  • powershell
  • shell
  • terminal
1 minute read

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Tilix and Zsh on Windows 10

Windows Subsystem for Linux

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I like all major Operating-Systems for different reasons and tasks. But for me there is only one perfect shell: "Zsh". The Z-shell is for me the right mix of a stable, extendable, modern and universal shell. On MacOS it's already the new default shell and on Linux it's easy to install. On Windows…

  • windows
  • wsl
  • zsh
  • terminal
  • shell
3 minute read

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First CursorBeat . . first lines

Blog is online.

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The cursor beats and running letters mark down the line in the text.app for this static.site powerd Blog. In the first steps everything here will be about Apps/Tools, Software-Development, DevOps and some storys worth to be told around those topics. I try to keep everything as short as possible…

  • deployment
  • blog
  • website
1 minute read

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