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By default, Gentoo’s emerge downloads and saves a lot of distfiles. And by a lot I mean … A LOT!And they are not removed automatically when the emerge process has finished successfully. Over time this will accumulate quite a collection of files in /vat/cache/distfiles that are no longer needed and just collecting dust there. Not… Read more
From time to time, you need to update your docker containers. And when built with docker-compose I have a little update-script for you. Nothing incredibly magical here, just a script that runs through the update commands and restarts the container afterwards. However, I assume your docker container is defined through a docker-compose.yaml file and built… Read more
Well, I have to admit, the title is a bit clickbait. You don’t build your own search engine per se, instead, you use an already-built open-source solution. All you need is your own server, VPS, Raspberry Pi or whatever you have. Heck, you can even run this locally on your Linux machine. Reasons for hosting… Read more
A Pastebin is a quick and handy way to share logs, debug output, etc. They are usually used in support situations. There are quite several public Pastebin services out there, with the most known being pastebin.com. But they all have one issue, privacy. You have to trust the hoster with your data. And logs can… Read more
Lego is a Let’s Encrypt client written in Go, hence the name. It serves as an alternative to Let’s Encrypt’s own client certbot which can be found in many Linux distribution repositories to install. It is relatively simple to handle and manages SSL certificates just fine, as long as the domain is publically reachable, meaning… Read more
For someone who works a lot with Git repositories, it is interesting to see some basic information in the console while working on the repo. Stuff like which branch or tag is currently active. Sure, there are commands to show that kind of information, but after a while, it becomes tedious to have to put… Read more
Keeping your kernel up to date on Gentoo can be a bit daunting, especially when you are running the “keyworded” kernel, meaning not the stable version, but the “always latest” version by keyword ~amd64. There’s a new version almost every week and updating it manually can be quite annoying over time. At least it felt… Read more
One of the challenges when installing a new Gentoo Linux is getting the correct compiler and CPU flags for your /etc/portage/make.conf file. Maybe not only while installing the system, but also when optimising things, it is nice to set the correct flags here. I’m not going into a long and drawn-out explanation of why it… Read more
There are times when you want to mount a remote network location into your local file system. Especially when you have a NAS or cloud storage with a provider who provides CIFS or NFS access to it. One way would be to add some lines to your /etc/fstab file to mount them every time your… Read more