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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

Published: February 18, 2024

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

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macOS - External Keyboard keys are swapped (solved)

Sometimes macOS could be painful..

Published: December 30, 2023

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: macOS default…

  • Keyboard

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[Tutorial]: Wifi with OpenWrt

Banana Pi R3 as Wifi Access-Point

Published: October 24, 2023

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 Dec740…

  • OpenWrt
  • Wifi
  • OpenSource

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Keyboard Guide

The question of compromise (IMHO)

Published: June 12, 2020

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 + M…

  • Keyboard

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PowerShell Config for Developers

PowerLine, Suggestions and more

Published: March 19, 2020

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 for…

  • windows
  • powershell
  • shell
  • terminal

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Tilix and Zsh on Windows 10

Windows Subsystem for Linux

Published: February 01, 2020

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 it…

  • windows
  • wsl
  • zsh
  • terminal
  • shell

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First CursorBeat . . first lines

Blog is online.

Published: December 01, 2019

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, to…

  • deployment
  • blog
  • website

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