I have been using MikroTik (my-crow-tick or me-crow-teek), or however you want to pronounce it, for several years now and I just keep coming back to using it. MikroTik, for the uninitiated, can be quite a difficult system to learn and use. There are quite a bit of gotchas that can bite you along...

Even though this device is not meant to be running Linux, I'm going to be tough during this review.

Setup process

It's extremely easy. Enter in the script, read what its outputting, click a few keys, voila, you have a running Asahi Linux system that dual-boots with MacOS. Ok, its not as simple...

In my previous article of , I documented how I was using a Synology DS1520+ as my NAS. After fighting with it and the main array of weird issues Synology desires to implement, which I won't get into here, I have recently sold the setup and gone with a much more robust system, or systems, in my RV.

I came upon a very powerful and simple script when I was searching for a good way to automate the ZFS snapshots. I have found this to the best one so far in terms of how I can edit the script and tweak it for my use very easily. 

I know that other scripts and programs exist such as sanoid by Jim S...

As of 20220926, MakeMKV is broken on Arch Linux due to glib and various other files being updated in Arch but not in MakeMKV. To fix this issue which shows up as a "Fatal error", you must install downgrade from the AUR.

yay -S downgrade

Once that is complete you will need to downgrade a few fil...

For those of us who use rsnapshot, moving to another backup solution is really not a pleasant thought. Debian 11 Bullseye brought along new features, updated packages, and a new kernel. Unfortunately it also dropped support on some packages, namely rsnpashot. This was done, I'm sure with a purpose t...

After using i3-wm, formally known as i3-gaps, for several years on my personal workstation I have not really needed to use the i3lock features that often due to my workstation being in my office where no one else touches it. They wouldn't know how to use it in they did try and mess with my worksta...

After I recently setup rsnapshot as my backup solution, which can be found here https://blog.wretchednet.com/post/rsnapshot/ I started looking at options on how to remotely backup my workstation. I used Backblaze for a while but I wasn't too happy with their interface. I looked at getting another...

I wanted to show a little firewall rule that I setup that will allow an entity to attempt to login via SSH or Winbox and have them locked out for 21 days after so many attempts. You can tweak this to allow for more attempts and or have them locked out indefinably. This might be considered a tar pit...

Updating gitea is a simple as replacing the binary in /usr/local/bin/gitea.

0. Stop the gitea service

   $ sudo systemctl stop gitea

1. Move the current binary from gitea to gitea.old just in case things break.

   $ sudo mv /usr/local/bin/gitea /usr/local/bin/gitea.old

2. Use wget to...

I have basically gone this whole entire setup just to get synchronization on AntennaPod and my phone/devices. Is it worth it? Not really as you can do the same with exporting the backup the official AntennaPod to another phone or use an OPML file to do the same for other podcast clients, but its a f...

After much research and trial and error I have found the gpodder implementation to be very terrible. The only known way to get synchronzation across devices is to setup a nextcloud server and install the plugin/addin gpodder. The other ways that I have tested but could not get any to work due to bro...

I tried to use sed to rename filenames but found it rather cumbersome. sed is great when used to edit the content of a file which you can find some examples I created here, but I found this handy program that can do the same but for filenames instead.

Installed on my Arch, BTW, system I alr...

Editor's Note GrapheneOS has placed the Pixel 4 line in legacy extended support which is great news as I believe many people complained and or threw money at the GrapheneOS creators.

Unfortunately, my Pixel 4 XL that I have been using with GrapheneOS for around two years now is End-of-Lif...

Credit Where Credit Is Due

I used a lot of https://old.jamesthebard.net/archlinux-and-u2f-login/ config but then tweaked it and added a litle more explination as his entry was from 2017~.

Let's Start the Rant

I have always wanted a way to get away from always having to type in password to l...

Due to the higher complexities of running a modern website or blog securely or rather, for making it easier for people via CloudFlare and the like, I have found that when one of those main sites are down, again like CloudFlare, sites that rely on their DNS redirecting and whatnot, go down too. Many...

After hacking my Amazon Audible key which can be found in a previous post here: https://blog.wretchednet.com/post/hacking_aax/, I was on the hunt for an audiobook player that was OpenSource and simple to work with.

My search for anything on Android begins with F-Droid, an OpenSource app "store"...

I like to data hoard but I don't take it the extreme. I am able to prune things I really don't need. Living in an RV doesn't help with having excess. In fact part of the liberating thing of the RV life is to get rid of things that we don't really need. Believe me it was hard giving up on my networ...

EDITOR'S NOTE -- 08-07-2023 -- This article has been updated to fill in missing info and explain better some misunderstood concepts.

For those of us using SpaceX satellite internet, we have had a great means to have internet in virtually any location now, but it does come with some caveats....

Maybe its my fault but my latest hardware purchase a Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Extreme Gen4 has been nothing but issues for me. Lets start with the hardware. I thought purchasing a badass laptop with a 4K display, RTX 3070 mobile, a 16:10 aspect ratio, and all the other great aspects that a powerful lapt...