June 28, 2023 @ 11:52
Here is just a quick one, I want to share.
On my Debian desktop systems (and ubuntu ones before), I install firefox these days from flatpak. The reason for this is obvious, the freshness of the packages I get compared to the ones from debian, which ship always firefox’ ESR version (what would work for most, but I prefer an up-to-date browser
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On XFCE and Gnome you can set the default applications, but that is sometimes not enough. Setting the default value for the x-www-browser link, is necessary so all X-applications use the correct browser for links.
With the update-alternatives command we can change those links. Let’s do this for the firefox flatpak example:
In short this command would do the trick
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June 25, 2023 @ 21:35
Seit nun etwas mehr als einer Woche läuft meine Seite / Blog mit FlatPress.
Vor allem das es sich um ein flat-file CMS handelt, gefiel mir besonders als auch der sonst allgemein recht schlanke Aufbau der Software.
Für mich als “Nicht-Programmierer” ist es mir mit meinen bescheidenen PHP-Kenntnissen dennoch möglich hier und da Anpassungen vorzunehmen, oder gar ein kleines Plugin zurecht zu basteln (syntaxhighlighter-ng).
Auch das Theming gefällt mir sehr, was anscheinend auch an das von Wordpress angelehnt ist. Auch hier konnte ich recht gut selbst Hand anlegen und habe mir das snail-Theme an meine Bedürfnisse angepasst. Mittlerweile ist daraus auch ein eigenes Theme geworden, namens Rainbow
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June 15, 2023 @ 22:46
After a long, long and more unmotivated search for a good blogging system, I was happy to find FlatPress.
FlatPress is a flat-file blogging system, with some quality of life features I am familiar with from Wordpress. I played around a bit with Textpattern, but haven’t got warm with it. Things like Pelican were also interesting, but I am still a fan of logging somewhere in and begin writing.
I was happy, that FlatPress still has an active community developing it, also there were some nice themes.
For my blog, I picked the snail theme and adjusted it to my needs and fixed few little bugs. The result is called “snail-orange” and you can find it here: https://git.la10cy.net/DeltaLima/flatpress-theme-snail-orange, checkout the branch deltalima-blog for the version of it, I use on this blog which is even more modified.
A little special thing about this blog is, that it runs from my home network completely powered by my off-grid solar system. I will try to include some stats here about the system (a little android-tv armbox with armbian on it) and the solar system. Also for the case of an outage I plan to setup a fallback server in the datacenter.
That’s for it for the first blog post. I am not sure which language I will prefer in future posts, I guess I will write sometimes in english and sometimes in german, depending on how I feel
