Linux

I’m a big fan of text expanders, espanso being my favorite one. As Xorg is no longer maintained, I recently switched to Wayland and the Gnome desktop environment. Unfortunately, I found out that Wayland support is experimental. This means espanso has to be installed from source. I browsed some forums and saw that installing espanso on Wayland is tricky. After some tinkering, I managed to get espanso running on my system: Void Linux x86_64 6.12.30_1 Gnome 47.4 on Wayland Install rustup Install rust via rustup. ...

I often work from WeWork, which is a public co-working space with a shared WIFI-network. Securing my connection For security and privacy reasons, I therefore work behind a VPN. I purchased an AirPVN subscription and configured it as an OpenVPN connection in NetworkManager1: NetworkManager’s terminal user interface nmtui This way, even if I’m working from Prague, my location will always be shown as Belgium2. This was important because my current enterprise client’s IT-security team kept receiving alarms that my location was changing all over Europe. ...