Robin Gierse
Checkmk Consultant

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Today I learned

Prune unused Flatpak runtimes

1 min read
Today I learned: How to prune unused Flatpak runtimes. I realized after running and upgrading my system for some time, that the flatpak directory seem...
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Today I learned

How to fix a failed `systemd-networkd-wait-online` service in a Debian 12 LXC container

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After upgrading a few of my LXC containers to Debian 12, I noticed, that the systemd-networkd-wait-online failed with the error message: systemd-netwo...
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Rant

Linux Distributors favoring Flatpak and Snap over native Packages

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I am not sure who started this trend, but I am very sure, how I feel about it: Not great! I have seen both Ubuntu and Fedora do it and maybe other dis...
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Today I learned

Create TAR Archive with only Directory Contents

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Today I learned: How to create a TAR archive of only the contents of a directory, without the directory or the path itself. And this stackoverflow ans...
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Fine-tune Tracker3 on Laptops

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Today I learned: How to fine-tune Tracker3 on Laptops. From the project's page: Tracker is an efficient search engine and distributed database for des...
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Today I learned

Topgrade

2 min read
Today I learned: About Topgrade. I actually have been using it for roughly a year now, and it gets better and better. What does it do? Quite frankly,...
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