Articles by Mate Lakat

  2. Install error when updating kernel

    So I wanted to update my machine. Issued the usual:

    [matelakat@homer ~]$ sudo pacman -Syu
:: Synchronizing package databases...
 core                                                                                  116.6 KiB   997 KiB/s 00:00 [####################################################################] 100%
 extra                                                                                   7.5 MiB  38.2 MiB/s 00:00 [####################################################################] 100%
:: Starting full system upgrade...
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...

Packages …

  3. Home Server from a laptop - homer

    I recently acquired a Lenovo L470 laptop for cheap, and I will be using it as a hypervisor to run my home automation VM on it.

    Basically the benefit is that it consumes low power, has a built-in UPS, a built-in keyboard and screen.

    First, I create a USB drive …

  4. Sous Vide Pork Shoulder Chops

    I am cooking pork shoulder the second time. Previously I cooked it in one piece then chilled and cut it to slices, based on this video. He said

    • Use collar cut
    • 0.5% salt per mass
    • 16...48 hours
    • 60 degrees celsius

    Now wife brought me some chops, quite thin …

  5. Zigbee to MQTT evaluation - Step 2

    My attempt to actually control anything with my setup. Actually a lamp. So what I had is exactly this lamp: SmartWise Lamp and the seller was claiming that it is compatible with zigbee2mqtt.

    So I enabled my z2m to allow parties to join by setting permit_join to true.

    Then turned …

  6. First Post Using Pelican

    This is my attempt of an Article with Pelican. You can call it a blog. Basically, I had to configure pelican as follows:

    ARTICLE_PATHS = ('articles',)

    Then created a file under content/articles/first-post.md with the content:

    Title: First Post
Date: 2024-11-01

... What you read went here

    And that is …

  7. Virsh not listing me domains

    I used this: virsh list and then virsh list --all, but none of the vms defined in my virt-manager are visible.

    When running it with sudo it worked, but who wants to do that?

    Then I found this link that solved my pain. Making a note here for myself as …