If you've been following me for a while, you know that I have a weakness for efficiency applied to everyday life. Some time ago I already told you about Boomaga, that amazing open source software that serves as “virtual printer” and allows you to do spectacular things, come unire più documenti in Read more
Premise: I don't have it against Chinese sellers. I've bought quite a few things on AliExpress over the years and, in most cases, everything went well. Questa storia però mi ha fatto riflettere su cosa succede quando un prodotto acquistato dall’altra parte del mondo si guasta davvero. Tutto inizia il Read more
Let's tell the truth: Native Linux commands are cornerstones of computing, but many of them were designed between the 70s and 90s, when the monitors barely showed 80 green text characters on black background. Today, se lanciate un comando per vedere lo spazio dei dischi Read more
You've just finished installing your shiny new Linux distribution on your PC. Everything is in its place, the system is responsive, but as soon as you open the terminal you are faced with the same old-fashioned screen: white text on black background, a minimal prompt (often a simple user@hostname:~$) and the Read more
Have you ever had to set up a local DNS server (come AdGuard Home o Pi-hole) to clean your network of ads and trackers, see everything work wonderfully and then, after a few days, suddenly find yourself without internet? Maybe some devices navigate, others show the classic warning “Connected network, internet Read more
I recently bought myself a telephone: the new Google Pixel 10 Pro. Slit, configuro, I transfer data from my old and trusty Huawei P30 Pro e… the time comes to connect it to your home Wi-Fi. I have a network managed by a FRITZ!Box 7530 AX (principal) and Read more
One day you wake up, you look at an old device that has been sitting in a drawer for many years – in my case an IP camera with a glorious but stubborn HiSilicon hi3510 chip – and you decide that the time has come to do things right. You tell yourself: “No more proprietary clouds, Read more
We have reached the last chapter of our Btrfs trilogy. After securing your data and scheduling backups, today we talk about how to optimize every single byte on the disk. If you think that space is a finite resource, Btrfs will change your mind thanks to transparent compression and Read more
In the previous post we saw how to make our system resilient “on site” using RAID and snapshot. But if the PC explodes or the server is stolen, local snapshots are useless. Today we make the leap in quality: Let's learn how to use Btrfs Send and Receive. Forget rsync e Read more
If you run a Linux server or workstation, the file system is not just a place where “park” file, but your first line of defense against data corruption. Today we talk about Btrfs, un file system copy-on-write (CoW) which offers native tools to manage integrity and redundancy. Read more