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How To: Remove Adobe DRM from ebooks — again

You might recall that I've written about this before, this is round two, as you will. I was once again in need of removing DRM from my ebooks as the previous method I had stopped working. More specifi...

How To, Privacy

How To: Download 'The Chosen' from the Official Website

If you're like me, you may want to (re)watch the series "The Chosen", a show about the life of Jesus. If you're like me, you want to watch this on your TV but the official app is terrible. And if you'...

How To

Setting up my Printer/Scanner in Fedora

Printers are devices straight from hell. Just stating a fact. Despite this unfortunate fact I can't live without one. Digitization is woefully behind in the country I live in so there's no way around...

Linux, Fedora, How To

How To: Deploy Services with TLS Certificates in a Tailscale network

Perhaps you've been in this situation before. You have a home server which hosts an bunch of stuff. Possibly in VMs, containers, what have you. You want a way to address these servers from elsewhere s...

How To, Linux

How To: Run shell scripts containing relative paths from anywhere

Have you ever had the problem that you want to run a script but because it handles relative paths it depends on the directory it's called from? Well, today I learned about a shell function that helps...

How To, Linux, Development

How To: Fix duplicated characters (and other artifacts) in your shell

A few days ago I started noticing strange behaviour of my shell. When typing commands or working with pasted ones, especially with tab completion, duplicated characters started showing up at the begin...

How To, Linux, Technology

How To: Play Zelda - Majora's Mask (and Ocarina of Time) with 4K Textures on the Steam Deck

I recently decided to revisit the childhood memory of mine that is "Zelda - Majora's Mask" on my Steam Deck. I've never owned a Nintendo console and was only ever able to play at a friend's place or w...

How To, Gaming

How To: Choose a specific WiFi radio band on Linux

Sometimes I don't work from home but at my family's or a friend's place. Turns out the router at one of these places is terrible and can't reliably provide WiFi for my laptop sitting some 4 meters awa...

How To, Linux, Technology

How To: Run Freelancer on Linux

Here's another piece of gaming nostalgia: Freelancer. It's celebrating its 20th birthday this year which seems like a good opportunity to me to get it up and running again. Prerequisites Although this...

How To, Gaming, Linux

How To: Create a Digital Frame with MagicMirror

I've wanted a digital frame at home for a while now. I'm notoriously bad at organizing pictures, even worse at sorting, printing, arranging or displaying them. So when I found out that digital frames...

How To, Personal, Software, Privacy, Self-hosting