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I don’t want to have my new Sonos One in my private LAN. Because Quest should also able to play music over the Sonos. So I place the Sonos in my IoT LAN. To make Sonos work across diffrent networks you need to do the following taks on your router. I use a simple Debian Linux system as my Router. With this I am very flexible in my setup. Here I will show the steps I did to make my Sonos working across VLANs. [Read More]

As I described in my Blog Post earlier. I make my websites with Hugo a static website generator written in go. I the last post I write how to deploy the website manually to S3. In this post I will show you how to build the site every time you push something to the repository and push it automatically to S3. I use Travis Ci to do the automted build and upload to S3. [Read More]

I have two method to lock my screen. One is to close just the cover from my T480. And the second is to just press and hotkey. i3lock I use the i3 own screenlocker tool i3lock. It is really soild and only do the needful. Nothing more no bloat. There the basic i3lock command I use: i3lock -i ~/.config/i3/lock.png -f -i give the picture shown from i3lock -f show the number of failed attempts Lock i3 with hotkey I simply bind the lock function to F12. [Read More]

I want to configure my new Bose QuietComfort 35 II to use them as bluetooth headphones on my Linux laptop. Bluetooth On my debian buster laptop I had no problem to pair the the QC35 II with the laptop. I just us the default blueman configuration. Pulseaudio To switch the sound after connect directly to the bluetooth headphones. I just placed one line in in the pulseaudio configuration. load-module module-switch-on-connect Headset I don’t really get the QC35 II satisfactorily working for me. [Read More]

I will just explain how my laptop startup look like. One boot process from grub to login. I use Laptop only for me so I don’t have to take care for multiuser. I try no make the boot process as minimal as possible. And require as well user interaction as possible. Grub First of all I will use grub as my bootloader to load Linux itself. I setup the grub timeout to 0 get get a faster boot time. [Read More]