Mastodawn

Hello, Fediverse!

Sharing my new blog post: my wife wanted to print, and somehow that became a 3-day trip through Android printer discovery, mDNS/DNS-SD, IPPS, CUPS, Avahi, OpenWrt, VLANs, and ath10k firmware.

It was honestly a lot of fun.

https://tech-takumi.github.io/posts/my-wife-wanted-to-print/

#openwrt #nixos #android #print #homelab #mdns #cups

So, my wife wanted to print...

Before this, the only reliable way to print at home was for me to upload PDFs over SFTP to my CUPS server and print them from there. This worked great, assuming you were me. My wife, quite reasonably, wanted to print like a normal person. From her device, over Wi-Fi. Without opening a ticket with the household infrastructure department. And, also quite reasonably, she has observed before that I make everything complex.

Tech Takumi

rcouto 4d ago

Natalie 4d ago

#NixOS ISOs are pretty big.. do they need to be?

https://natkr.com/2026-06-19-nixos-but-smol/

#nix

I can haz smoller NixOS ISOs? | natkr's ramblings

In which I painstakingly remove functionality from a Linux live image. Like a normal person.

rcouto Apr 19

Eric Alper Apr 19

rcouto Apr 18

Incident Creator ❎Apr 18

rcouto Apr 10

Coreforge Mar 28

Finally tried to hook up an AM4 chipset to a raspberry pi (someone suggested this on the pi-pci repository a few years ago), and it turns out it mostly just works.

rcouto Apr 1

Torsten Grote Mar 19

Google has news on what you will need to do for still being able to sideload apps:

* enable developer options
* confirm that you are not tricked
* restart phone and re-authenticate
* wait one day
* confirm with biometrics that you know what you are doing
* decide if you only want unrestricted installs for 1 week or forever
* confirm that you accept the risks
* enjoy the few apps that still have developers motivated to develop for a user-base willing to put up with this

https://goo.gle/advance-flow

rcouto Feb 4

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pandoc Feb 4

“pandoc for the people”, the pandoc wasm web-app, is now available at https://pandoc.org/app/
It allows to run any kind of document conversion that pandoc supports in the browser. The documents never leave the computer, thus ensuring *full privacy*.
Conversions to pdf are done via Typst.

#pandoc #wasm #typst