A sad downturn for my OnlyOffice setup

Today I needed to have a collaboration document feature available via a simple link, so anyone with it could edit it and add some thoughts into the document. With my NextCloud setup it should be no problem, I thought. In fact, it was not a problem at all, just create a document, …

Using electronic ID on Arch in Slovakia pt.2

A few days prior I have finally received my electronic ID or eID that can be used to streamline the communication with various official bureaus in the country. Since it is Java based, it has a support for multiple OSes by default, including Linux. Although, as I stated in the pre…

Confusion with dashes and underscores

This issue is very strange. I still did not comprehend what happened exactly, but my brain tells me that somehow the docker-compose project changed it's automatic instance name generation from using hyphens to dashes. I do not want to go and replicate the issue right now on the l…

Bluetooth mouse unresponsive after boot

I consider the trusty Logitech MX Master 3, the computer mouse I use to be a great addition to my toolset. Even though I try to use mouse as little as possible in times when keyboard is the main input source (when I am writing something), the mouse is still very important. Do not…

I have finally configured DMARC today

A time ago I got contacted by a white-hat hacker with an inquiry about the security of one of my emails. Specifically, that my DMARC record was not set up. I immediately contacted my email provider, since I did not know if the whole thing was even legit, but I did not get a very …

Solutions to caffeine starting at ranom

I have noticed that my caffeine-ng in the tray is seemingly enabling/activating at random, even though I had virtually nothing running and I had no apps listed explicitly in the Preferences dialog: After running caffeine from the command line, I could see the following: INFO:caf…

Using electronic ID on Arch in Slovakia

Some months ago I wrote an article about the smartcard and shown a possible way to initialize communication with it on Arch Linux and the notebook equipped with smartcard reader, in my case a trusty T470. The basis for making the smartcard reader work is to install the required p…