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Reading a non fiction book gives an opportunity to dive deeper into one persons thoughts. While it might be truth that many books are overly long and practically could have been summarized into single blog post without loosing the point (who knows, maybe authors are getting payed by amount of pages, not the quality) - there are still books worth reading. On the examples are “Thinking, fast and slow”. This is the book that is very other quoted by other authors and never gets old (not yet at least). ...

KDE is very feature-rich desktop environment for Linux. However it lacks some of the very essential features for some users like automatic dark mode switch (it’s not present on GNOME either but easily installable with gnome extension) or automatic brightness control for notebooks that have ambient light sensor. So - there are couple of way to enable automatic dark mode on KDE, but non of them is straight forward: GUI versions Yin-Yang can be installed via Flatpak, but it needs to be pulled manually from git and compiled manually. ...

Truenas 25.04 CE used for this guide TrueNas philosophy is “1 device - 1 assignment”. So by doing this we are going off-piste and who knows what could happen. Please proceed only if You have backup of Your data and You know what You are doing. Identify the SSD with the command lsblk For instance: NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS sda 8:0 0 10.9T 0 disk └─sda1 8:1 0 10.9T 0 part sdb 8:16 0 3.6T 0 disk └─sdb1 8:17 0 3.6T 0 part sdc 8:32 0 3.6T 0 disk └─sdc1 8:33 0 3.6T 0 part sdd 8:48 0 3.6T 0 disk └─sdd1 8:49 0 3.6T 0 part nvme1n1 259:0 0 119.2G 0 disk ├─nvme1n1p1 259:1 0 1M 0 part ├─nvme1n1p2 259:2 0 512M 0 part └─nvme1n1p3 259:3 0 118.7G 0 part nvme0n1 259:4 0 953.9G 0 disk └─nvme0n1p1 259:5 0 951.9G 0 part nvme2n1 259:6 0 238.5G 0 disk we’ll take the example with nvme2n1 and we’ll use the parted command for it: ...

Mikrotik produces powerful equipment for advanced users with affordable prices. It’s similar to Linux in a way - you can modify almost anything, but don’t expect it’s going to work good out of a box. When I’ve bought MikroTik hAP ax³ I was disappointed with low performance and lack of band steering (devices were stuck on 2.4 Ghz if got connected to it). After quite some sleepless evenings I got it working in a good way, so clients have decent speed, connect to 802.11ax and use widest band width (there were problems with intel AX210, that some devices would not connect to 802.11ax but use 802.11n, some would use only 40mhz instead of 80mhz, and some would ignore 5Ghz completely). ...

In order to start loving Debian - we need to try out other Linux distributions and see how easily things may break after system upgrade. While Debian is super stable - it could have a problem with newer hardware - older kernel versions might not simply support it. There is relatively stable way of installing newer kernel while still maintaining Debian golden stability. This approach is called backports. Here can be found official Debian article: Installing a Package from Backports ...