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.

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.

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.

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.