fernvenue's Blog

In the blink of an eye, I have been a Cloudflare user for nearly ten years, long enough to watch both the company and its stock price grow dramatically.

Recently, I just moved all my games to a dedicated gaming OS, this keeps my daily OS focused on work, and lets me really sink into my games.

In the blink of an eye, April has passed, yet I still haven’t gotten around to writing.

Yea yea I know, so many people on Hacker News have so many different opinions about AI Coding.

Today, this machine is quite an old model, HPE’s ProLiant DL388p Gen8, which has been in service for ten years.

Recently, I got in touch with a Dell RTX 4070 graphics card, which was taken from another workstation of ours.

Recently, I returned to my parents’ house for the Eid al-Adha, and then I had to go on a business trip, so I could only bring my MacBook Air.

When it comes to gaming on Linux, many many many people’s understanding stil remains in the Jurassic era.

I’ve been using Rime on Debian for a long time and have gotten used to it.

Playing around with OpenWrt often involves multiple outbounds, maybe multiple ISPs or VPN outbounds like WireGuard.

I just got the latest Macbook Air M4.

Long ago, during the time of creation, I confidently waved my hand and allocated a 1GB ESP partition and a 1GB boot partition, thinking to myself with a confident smile that this would surely be more than enough for the foreseeable future.

R2S is an affordable and easy-to-use hardware, perfect for running lightweight services as a mini server at home.

In many frontend project builds, we often see static resources like CSS and JS named with hashes or timestamps.

I’ve been meaning to write this article for a while.

Enabling SMB on Debian is very straightforward and convenient, and I haven’t encountered any issues over the years.

A few days ago, I set up the ThinkCentre in a house thousands of kilometers away.

This article is essentially a replication of the previous Configure Fcitx 5 and Rime on Debian post on iOS.

Lately, I’ve often forgotten to mute the sound before locking the screen, and once I’m lying down, I can still hear message notifications going off.

A few days ago, I added a Bluetooth module to the workstation in the office.

Hosting our code on external services like GitHub is undoubtedly convenient.

Actually, in the modern internet, NAT is often unnecessary in many places.

Compared to GitLab, Gitea is a more lightweight and convenient choice for small teams and personal use.

My dislike for OpenWrt is well known among many people around me.

Due to the official R2S firmware’s kernel missing the xfrm module, my IPSec couldn’t run, so I switched to Armbian.

Once upon a time, I learned a little bit about Git signatures.

After taking a big step into HTTPS Only, I have gotten used to pairing with HTTPS for best practices, regardless of the environment.

When dealing with various repositories and branches, it is sometimes inevitable that we make mistakes.

The issue began with my ZFS storage pool on a new device consuming terabytes of space after each snapshot.

It’s my personal habit to use dark mode wherever I go.

Lately, I’ve been discussing my audio setup on Debian with more people.

Since I have a device with dual 4090 GPUs that has been collecting dust for a while, I decided to use it for running Whisper to process some audio data.

In a previous article on Nix packages and Systemd Service, I briefly introduced the method of installing applications using Nix and configuring systemd services on Debian.

As a high-performance and easy-to-use L3 tunnel, WireGuard has many advantages that can’t be replaced.

I switched from IBus to Fcitx 5 a while ago.

In the previous article introducing Gravity, a delay-based full mesh SD-WAN solution on IPSec was discussed.

Nowadays, nixpkgs has become the most up-to-date and largest repository for software packages.

By default, Proxmox uses a static address and has SLAAC disabled.

I have been using KeePassXC as my password manager for a long time, and I have been pleased with its support for using YubiKey to unlock the KeePassXC database.

Sometimes we need applications bind on lower ports, but on Linux, only privileged applications can do that, so what if we wanna make a normal application or service bind on lower port?

We all know that Android is actually based on Linux, theoretically, Linux should be able to run Android applications natively without virtualization.

Some people always say that Cloud Drive providers don’t have a native Linux client, but actually, we have a simpler way to use these Cloud Drives: mount them as local disks on Linux using RClone.

SD-WAN is a timeless topic.

Recently, I used yt-dlp to download some Members-Only videos from YouTube, considering the future use of these videos, I also hope that they are compatible and user-friendly.

Finally, Raspberry Pi OS with Bookworm has been released.

I’m used to using encrypted DNS with DoH or DoT almost everywhere, so it is no exception on the server.

Like the previous article introducing Nginx, this is also an old article that I have archived.

I still remember the first time I learned about COW (Copy On Write) file systems, and I couldn’t help but marvel at the ability to take snapshots of data.

In the previous article, we explored the best practices of Nginx in various reverse proxy application scenarios.

This is actually a part of an old archived article.