The previous article was about downloading Debian images and packing the entire repository into those. Now, I’ll show you how to configure apt to use ISO images as repositories.

A few notes about what ISO images Debian offers and how to download them. I’ll also provide some useful tips on how to use Jigdo to archive the complete Debian repository into ISO images.

Linux has made significant strides, and in 2023, it’s better than ever. However, there are still individuals perpetuating a delusion: that desktop Linux is as user-friendly and productive as its mainstream counterparts. After a few discussions on Lemmy, I believe it’s important to provide a clear review of where Linux falls short as a daily driver for average users.

In this article I’ll show you how to properly setup SmartDNS in DD-WRT. You’ll get advanced DNS caching, faster DNS using multiple resolvers and most importantly encrypted DNS with DoT (DNS over TLS) and DoH (DNS over HTTPS).

BMP280 is a digital temperate and pressure sensor manufactured by Bosch Sensortec. At the end of this post you’ll be able to read values from it in Python.

In this guide you’ll find out how to read and write values to your NanoPi M4 or M4V2 digital pins also known as GPIO. This low level interface allows you to control digital electronic circuits directly from Linux.

DD-WRT’s WebUI includes an “Automatic Drive Mount” feature that works just fine until you’ve multiple USB drives. It seems that when the router reboots USB drives get mounted in different/unpredictable paths. At the end of this article you’ll be able to have predictable USB mount points.

I was looking for a cheap machine to run backups and weird experimental stuff and then I remember I had an old MacBook 3,1 from 2007 (Core 2 Duo 2.2 Ghz) in a shelve. In this post I’ll dig deep into useful tricks for anyone looking to use this laptop (or similar) as cli-only Debian server for fun and profit.

NanoPi NEO 2 is a very cheap (15$) and very good single board computer featuring a 64 bit quad-core ARM CPU. The only drawback one might found is the CPU locked between 816 MHz and 1 GHz. Today I’ll teach your how to safely overclock your NEO 2.

So you got an amazing ARM SBC with the RK3399 CPU (NanoPi M4 / RockPro64 / Rock Pi 4B), so much power into such small form factor. Now you are trying Apache or other network intensive tasks and your network seems to crash randomly after a while or whenever it is under load? Learn what the cause of this common and how to fix it.