Mastodon comes with a default post size of 500 characters. This is not set in stone, and can be increased fairly easily (last tested on Mastodon 4.2.0): Edit live/app/javascript/mastodon/features/...

For legal reasons Fedora 37 decided to build Mesa without support for H.246, H.256 and VC1 VA-API codecs. (discussion thread) Luckely, installing a build that enables those is fairly easy: Ena...

To get flatpak’s to honor your systems dark mode and not show you horrible white menubars, you can use this little snipplet: First make sure that gtk-application-prefer-dark-theme is set to true i...

I’ve been meaning to test out Mastodon again for a while. It’s is best described as a federated version of the blue bird platform (Twitter), while not being Twitter. No ads, no algorithms. Since T...

For some obscure reason the Home Assistant folks decided to add fallback DNS functionality to the Homeassistant Supervisor. This meant that it would fall back to using Cloudflare’s DNS servers if/w...

An update on the My history in gadgets, the 2014, 2015, 2016, 2019, 2019 bis, 2020 and 2020 bis updates: Phone history Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra My partner took over the OnePlus Pro 8, and I...

In the past (before the introduction of the new design/engine/…), you were able to import Certificate Authority certificates without problems. The new version took that away, unfortunately. After ...

I finally (shame on me) cycled all my SSH keys to use passphrases. One thing I massively dislike is having to enter my passphrase when using them. ssh-agent to the rescue! What does ssh-agent do? ...

I live in Belgium, but I prefer english as my default locale. Using the en_US or en_GB locale brings problems of it’s own - not having the right system (metric) or wrong start of week day.. A whil...

One of the devices in the house has a micro-HDMI connecter which is used from time to time with our TV. Unfortunately Linux (pulseaudio) doesn’t switch automatically to the right audio, keeping the...