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Disabling Home Assistant fallback DNS

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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/when the DNS servers you regularly use weren’t responding or acting weird. That was done with good intent, but it is a breach of privacy, trust and giving up a part of local control - something Home As...

My history in gadgets - update 2022

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An update on the My history in gadgets, the 2014, 2015, 2016, 2019, 2019 bis, 2020 and 2020 bis updates:

Adding en_BE locale to Linux

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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..