It took the coronavirus crisis, to finally put me in the mood of digitizing all …
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LineageOS on a Samsung Galaxy Tab S2 9.7 Wi-Fi (2016)
Steps to install LineageOS on a Samsung Galaxy S2 Tablet
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Try .NET (from your Browser)
Just the other day, I learnt that .NET can now run in a browser (which got me flashes of silver light… but this time, it’s something else): It’s some kind of a sandbox, that executes …
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Getting rid of all the bloatware – on a SONY Xperia X Compact.
In a recent release of the german c’t magazine, under “Schlanker Roboter” they described the process of getting rid of the many bloatware that comes along with Android Smartphones today. I went with the method using …
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Defecting from Samsung (Android) to an Apple iPhone
The longest time I have been a happy Samsung phone user, currently with the S4 mini, and liked the ability to flash custom ROM’s like CyanogenMod and it’s sucessor LineageOS. However, having a hard time …
Continue readingWordPress for Kids
How to simplify and secure a WordPress installation for kid’s use? This guide focuses on privacy, security and ease of use. Thus secure access is enforced, a login is required and some UI sugar will …
Continue readingPublishing a CSS User Style as Firefox Extension
To provide the FocusFinder User Style to Firefox users that do not have the Stylish or Stylus browser extension, I want to create a simple Firefox extension that just applies these CSS rules. How easy …
Continue readingAn embeddable single file QR code generator
As HTML/CSS/JavaScript exercise I created* a QR code generator, which is embeddable into any website. It’s even usable offline, because it’s just a single HTML file. Try it And here’s how you embed it, using …
Continue readingRunning NxFilter on a Synology DS115j NAS
To free up my other Raspberry Pi from being a DNS server and to use an already existing NAS on my local LAN, I decided to try to install NxFilter (my favourite DNS filtering solution) …
Continue readingThe web, with (your) Style
While the web (besides time machines) is styled much nicer than ever, this does not always mean, it’s your style, nor that user experience is much better for you. Two powerful tools, UserStyles and …
Continue readingInstalling the Samsung C480W printer on Ubuntu Linux
tl;dr; As Linux user, do yourself a favor and consider the Samsung C480W printer. Update: When scanning after Ubuntu upgrade does not work I wanted to get rid of my old HP PSC 1215 All-in-One …
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