Tag: arch

How not to securely erase a NVME drive

I got a replacement for my Samsung MZVLW256HEHP-000L7 NVMe 256GB M.2 PCI Express X4 SSD, known also simply as Samsung PM961. It is an OEM part. After replacing it with the new one, Samsung 980 1TB, I put the old one on sale. This was my daily driver, so I did not want any meaning…

Tips for a rootless Docker on Arch with Ansible

There are a few pitfalls worth noting when using Ansible when the remote is an Arch machine. I know, a weird combination. It looks more and more like basically no-one uses Arch remote with Ansible. But hey, I like it, so learning (and documenting) a thing or two along the way mig…

Rootless Docker on Arch

Currently, using a rootless Docker on Arch can reasonable be divided into two approaches: stability and performance. With the stability, the choice is a LTS kernel and a fuse-overlayfs storage driver, while under performance a latest stable kernel is used alongside the latest wid…

OpenPGP Smartcard KDF issue: Bad PIN

Both YubiKey and GnuPG are able to do many things. The difference one might point out is, that GnuPG probably does neither of them particularly well, resembling a Swiss army knife. No matter how well either of the tools handles tasks it is able to perform, both tools had became a…

Installing caffe SSD on Arch

Exploring artificial intelligence possibilities in late 2021 led me through multiple hoops already. There are things that work already, there are things that can be optimized for a better performance and then there are things that do not appear to work at all. One of such things …