Murena Fairphone 4 finally available
Now you can finally buy the Murena Fairphone 4—a de-googled phone with the most sustainable production line on the market.
Installing the HP LaserJet Pro MFP M428fdn printer on Gentoo
If you’re looking for a printer that works with Linux, HP’s LaserJet Pro MFP M428fdn is a quite good option. Its driver is even open source as it doesn’t rely on the HPLIP Binary Plug-In, and available in many distro’s repositories—including Gentoo.
To install the printer under Gentoo, all I had to do was the following steps:
- Make sure you have ...
NetworkManager-openvpn: invalid IP6 config received!
After an update of my packages, OpenVPN suddenly didn’t connect anymore and dropped an error:
invalid IP6 config received!
Apparently this happens because “OpenVPN 2.5.0 started to pass incomplete IPv6 configurations when the server is not fully configured for IPv6 but has some IPv6 ...
Gentoo: get pretty VLC subtitles
While the subtitles of the VLC player on Gentoo looked rather ugly, they looked nice on Windows—to a point it really bothered me. After some online searching, I came across a forum post that helped me to resolve it rather easily:
- In VLC, go to Tools → Preferences
- Bottom left under Show settings select All
- Find Subtitles / OSD → Text renderer
Under Font (on the very top), you ...
Dark Age of Camelot Shaman resources
The filming location database is online!
After many hours of work, the filming location database is finally online. It’s an open and free database of filming locations: the data is licensed under the ODbL.
OpenStreetMap: Updated Esri World Imagery in Pretoria
Exciting news for mappers in Pretoria (as myself): the Esri World Imagery was recently updated to a much sharper, more detailed version. This makes mapping way more pleasant and reliable. Awesome!
Ethical Tech Giving Guide
Giving presents to someone who cares about Soft- and Hardware Freedom is difficult (I know my wife struggles). The Free Software Foundation’s Ethical Tech Giving Guide can help you to find the perfect gift.
Logo of the OpenStreetMap project. Ken Vermette, OSM/CC BY-SA 2.0
State of the Map 2020 in Cape Town
It’s official: the coming State of the Map is set in Cape Town!