/ Recent content on Hugo en-us Sun, 22 Mar 2026 20:02:04 -0700 /posts/2026/theme-update/ Sun, 22 Mar 2026 20:02:04 -0700 /posts/2026/theme-update/ It has been a while since I actually worked on the website. I decided to update the ’terminal’ theme to the latest version and of course, a bunch of tings broke. Mainly because I changed files within the theme folder instead of overwriting the files. I spent a good amount of time today to figure out what changes I had made and then move them to the correct folders outside of the theme folder. /posts/2026/canada-paper-work-rant/ Sun, 15 Mar 2026 14:12:09 -0700 /posts/2026/canada-paper-work-rant/ Every time I have to do any kind of filing, I just get frustrated. I never liked doing paper work. Let’s face it, nobody does unless you are a psycho. I am kidding of course. Anyways. Back to my rant. First of all, why is there Letter an Legal? Have one format. I either have a folder that can take Legal or one that can take Letter. Either way, one doesn’t fit the other. /posts/2025/why-steamos-is-important/ Tue, 07 Jan 2025 21:44:25 -0800 /posts/2025/why-steamos-is-important/ Most probably have heard by now that the Lenovo Legion Go S with SteamOS got announced. Looking at the reactions, I can see two fractions: This is the year of the Linux Desktop It’s not that big of a deal. It’s easy to install Linux. I wanted to address both of those. Let’s start with: This is the year of the Linux Desktop I doubt it. Mostly because SteamOS isn’t a desktop OS, but a console OS. /posts/2024/hp-smart-app-on-android/ Thu, 19 Dec 2024 19:21:11 -0800 /posts/2024/hp-smart-app-on-android/ This one is more a ramble in hopes to remind me what to do if this happens again … or find the answer when I google for it and find me own page. I got my new Pixel 9 Pro and installed all my apps again. I don’t transfer because I use this to also get rid of apps that I actually do not use. Anyways, one of the apps I installed was the HP Smart app for my HP printer (I know, I know. /posts/2024/disable-all-heads-up-notifications-on-android/ Sun, 01 Dec 2024 11:04:57 -0800 /posts/2024/disable-all-heads-up-notifications-on-android/ Every time I get a new Android phone, I disable all the heads up notifications. I find them very irritating. You can disable them per app notification but that takes forever. I don’t want any. Unfortunately, there is no way in the settings to disable them system wide. At least not that I know of. Install adb First step is to install adb on your computer. Yes, you need a computer to do this. /posts/2024/trip-to-vancouver/ Wed, 06 Nov 2024 15:52:03 -0800 /posts/2024/trip-to-vancouver/ I had to go to Vancouver to get my passport renewed. I took the day off, because I had an early appointment and then just spent the rest of the morning, walking around and taking some pictures. /posts/2024/switch-from-kinesis-freestyle2-to-freestyle-pro/ Sat, 28 Sep 2024 12:47:03 -0700 /posts/2024/switch-from-kinesis-freestyle2-to-freestyle-pro/ About a month after getting the Freestyle 2, I started to have issues. At first I only noticed it with the arrow keys. Occasionally an additional key press was registered. I noticed it especially with the back arrow. Occasionally it would also type a slash. Then came the really bad day. Every time I pressed zero, it also send a HOME. I tried various things. Unplugging. Different USB port. Nothing helped. /posts/2024/kinesis-freestyle-2/ Fri, 09 Aug 2024 07:27:49 -0700 /posts/2024/kinesis-freestyle-2/ Split keyboards I have been eyeing split keyboards for a while and finally decided to get one. My main two reasons were: more comfortable typing get better at typing I can already confirm that both things turned out to be true. The position of the two sides just allows me to perfectly rest my hands. The angle is just perfect and I can adjust it easily in case I move around. /posts/2024/create-backup-of-galaxy-watch-5/ Fri, 07 Jun 2024 16:14:09 -0700 /posts/2024/create-backup-of-galaxy-watch-5/ I got an alert on my phone that my watch hasn’t been backed up in a while. To check: Open Galaxy wearables app Watch Settings Accounts and backup Sure enough, it said my last backup was about 2 months ago. Now comes the kicker: No way to manually do one or any message why it didn’t do a backup. I had to google around and found a solution. Not a good one. /posts/2024/birthday-trip/ Tue, 21 May 2024 18:25:54 -0700 /posts/2024/birthday-trip/ We went to Pender Island for my birthday. First day was a big stressful. We headed out early, to hopefully make it onto an early ferry. We couldn’t get a reservation to Pender Island. Unfortunately, we didn’t make it on because there were just too many waiting. We got onto the next one to Swartz Bay. There, we had to leave the ferry termainal, turn around and then drive back in. /posts/2024/configure-bridge-for-kvm-on-debian-bookworm/ Sun, 28 Jan 2024 15:52:14 -0800 /posts/2024/configure-bridge-for-kvm-on-debian-bookworm/ This is mainly for myself to remember how I did it. Might be helpful for others as well. Install bridge-utils The bridge-utils are needed to configure a bridge. apt install bridge-utils Configure the bridge interface with DHCP Check with the following command which interface your physical interface is ip -f inet a s Mine is enp1s0 Create the file /etc/network/interfaces.d/br0. I prefer using DHCP over a static configuration. It allows me to configure everything on my DHCP server. /posts/2024/i-use-arch-linux-btw/ Wed, 03 Jan 2024 13:20:40 -0800 /posts/2024/i-use-arch-linux-btw/ Yes, I am now one of THEM. As stated in my last post, I got a new laptop last year. I wanted to go with Debian, but because the hardware is very new, I had to go with something more … current. My old laptop ran Manjaro, and I was quite happy with it. However, I wanted to go with a base distribution. Nothing that uses another distribution as it’s base. /posts/2023/reduce-cpu-frequency-when-laptop-lid-is-closed/ Mon, 11 Dec 2023 19:33:27 -0800 /posts/2023/reduce-cpu-frequency-when-laptop-lid-is-closed/ I got a new Alienware M16 laptop. One thing that I had done on my old laptop was, that I had it automatically lower the CPU frequency when I closed the lid on my laptop. I don’t want it to go to sleep but also don’t need it to run full blast. Yes, the CPU governor should lower the frequency on it’s own, but this way I just force it to the lowest frequency. /posts/2023/starting-with-nextcloud/ Wed, 06 Dec 2023 16:57:31 -0800 /posts/2023/starting-with-nextcloud/ Starting with NextCloud I finally got myself a MiniPC. Installed Linux on it and then NextCloud AIO. It was a bit of a hassle to get the port forwarding as I wanted it. AIO is also a bit finicky if you give it some incorrect information. It doesn’t complain until you try to get everything setup and it simply doesn’t work. After the first few hurdles, I started tinkering with my shiny new NextCloud instance. /posts/2023/visit-from-germany---part-1/ Mon, 04 Sep 2023 22:15:12 -0700 /posts/2023/visit-from-germany---part-1/ My mom and sister came again for a visit this year. This time they flew into Seattle. I went there to pick them up. Day 1 The vacation already started with some excitement. As you can see, there is no luggage. It didn’t make it to Seattle. This isn’t the first time they are flying, which meant they were prepared. The had some essentials in their carry. We headed to the hotel and afterwards down to the wharf. /posts/2023/openvpn-on-android-with-tasker/ Sat, 29 Jul 2023 20:18:53 -0700 /posts/2023/openvpn-on-android-with-tasker/ I got myself a pfsense firewall and dedicated access points for my home network. I might do a seperate post about all that, but for now, only one thing is important. I configured OpenVPN on it to allow me to connect to my home network while on the go. I immediately wanted my phone to automatically connect with OpenVPN. I am not going through the detail on how to configure OpenVPN Connect. /posts/2023/birthday-weekend/ Sun, 21 May 2023 19:00:00 -0700 /posts/2023/birthday-weekend/ Birthday weekend This year was a special birthday. J took me to Whistler for my birthday. Four days away. We had a lot of fun. The hotel room had a private hot tub. It was necessary after all the walking we did. It was really nice. On the way to Whistler I learned a lesson. If Google Maps tries to constantly get you off the highway, then check your route options. /posts/2023/goodbye-wordpress/ Mon, 13 Feb 2023 15:14:11 -0800 /posts/2023/goodbye-wordpress/ Today is the day I deleted my old page. New beginnings. This means I now committed 100% to hugo. I have to say that I prefer the simplicity of it. That it is just static web pages. I also like that it is just plain files on my side. Makes it so much easier to move things around, find things and edit them. I don’t have to deal with a database or whatever limited things the software offers me. /posts/2023/change-game-executable-in-steam-linux-steamdeck/ Sun, 29 Jan 2023 10:43:08 -0800 /posts/2023/change-game-executable-in-steam-linux-steamdeck/ Warning: Changing the executable could get you banned in online games. There are many reasons why you would want to change the executable that is used to launch a game under Steam. You might want to use a different launcher. Specifically for MODs you might want to launch an alternate launcher or you need a pateched executable. Warning: Be carefuly with any executable you download. If you do not trust the source, don’t use it. /posts/2022/why-i-use-vim/ Mon, 26 Dec 2022 14:01:46 -0800 /posts/2022/why-i-use-vim/ I’ve been watching a few of those videos that talk about vim vs other editors for programming. I thought I throw my two cents in and explain, why I use vim. Not just for editing configuration files, but also programming and pretty much anything else. I even write this post with vim. I say that right away, I don’t think that the other ones are bad, they are just not right for me. /posts/2022/steamdeck/ Fri, 16 Dec 2022 20:11:15 -0800 /posts/2022/steamdeck/ I got my steam deck in July and have been playing a lot with it. Well, maybe not a lot compared to others, but certainly a lot from my point of view. I also bought more games in the last six months than every before in my life. I guess that is a win for valve and the steam deck. Looking back, the steam deck certainly isn’t a perfect device. It would be nice if the screen was slightly bigger. /posts/2022/imagepost/ Fri, 02 Dec 2022 23:28:00 -0800 /posts/2022/imagepost/ This post is mainly to test how to store my images relative to a post. Makes it easier to have them organized. I took this picture on the fathers day carshow 2022. /posts/2022/firstpage/ Fri, 02 Dec 2022 22:05:10 -0800 /posts/2022/firstpage/ I had played around with hugo for a while. Tried it, stopped, tried it, stopped. Today I thought enough is enough. I might as well commit to it, So there it is. My new page in Hugo. I decided to use the “Terminal” theme. It just fits my background the best. Good, old Unix terminal. /about/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /about/ Hi. Call me Andy. I work in IT since 1998. I love being in nature. I love taking pictures when I am out in nature. One of my other passions is cooking. I am also a OpenSource and Linux enthusiast. /markdown/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /markdown/ My Markdown cheat sheet These are the markdowns that I use. They work with my theme and extensions that I installed. Headlines # H1 ## H2 ### H3 #### H4 ##### H5 ###### H6 Formating Personally, I like using _ for italic, but left the * examples in case I accidentally do it and don’t know what’s going on. _Italic_ *Italic* **Bold** ***Bold and Italic*** _**Bold and Italic**_ Embedded images If the link to the image begins with a / then the image has to be in the static directory. /myconfig/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /myconfig/ What is this about? I decided to switch from WordPress to Hugo. I always wanted to go back to a more static web page. For many reasons. The biggest one is that I don’t want to constantly update the software on my blog. I don’t want to be easily exposed to security bugs. Now that I switched I thought I should probably document somewhere, what I did and what kind of customizations I did for myself.