When dealing with virtual machines in LXD or any other QEMU-based environments manually mounting a VM’s disk image can allow you to inspect its contents and retrieve data. This article walks you through the process of mounting a VM disk image for troubleshooting and data recovery.

Sometimes, you may want to quickly grab all the links from a webpage without using third-party extensions. This guide will show you how to extract all links using only your browser.

In a typical home or office network, all devices use the DNS servers specified by the router. However, there are scenarios where specific devices need to use a different DNS server e.g. TV set-top boxes. This guide will show you how to configure OpenWrt to assign a custom DNS server to specific devices using the uci command-line tool.

Learn how to redirect all traffic destined for an internet host (e.g., 1.1.1.1) to another IP, a local machine—for fun and profit. This technique is useful for debugging, blocking specific requests or bypassing restrictions.

Splices may be configured as a simple splice, having one conductor joined to another conductor, or as a complex splice with one or more conductors joined to one or more other conductors. In this article learn how to splice wires up to NASA standards.

Do you have a perfectly good Debian install that suddenly won’t boot? Discover how to get it back up and running in just two simple steps.

WordPress is an incredible platform for building websites and online stores, and Automattic—along with its CEO, Matt Mullenweg—has made substantial contributions to the open-source ecosystem. However, an unfortunate series of events unfolded following Matt’s decision to target WP Engine. In this article, I share my perspective on the situation and explore what Matt could have done differently to benefit both Automattic and the WordPress community.

The windows setup program refuses to install Windows to external USB drives but that’s not a problem as there’s a way around it. It’s absolutely possible to run Windows from any modern external drive eg. windows installed on an USB SSD disk.

VLANs are an important part of any advanced network and while DD-WRT is capable of such setups it isn’t as easy and obvious as it should be. In this article I explain, in simple terms and with examples, how you may setup VLANs on a R7000 or any other DD-WRT router.

ESPHome provides built-in support for the BME680 sensor with a fully open-source implementation; however, it is not compatible with all the sensor’s features. The project also includes Bosch’s proprietary BSEC v1 and v2 software libraries that support different ESP boards. Learn how to set up and configure your sensors in this post with examples for the ESP32 S2 and C3 boards.