It's been a couple of years since I last had a go at getting hibernate / suspend to disk working on my Slackware system. Back then the problem seemed to be that the Nvidia drivers just didn't like hibernate. They didn't like sleep / suspend either, but that wasn't as bad. The idea was that when I pr...

When I bought my Ezviz doorbell a few years ago I expected it to play a notification on my Google Home Mini too, since it said compatible with Google Home. But it never worked, it would just tell me it found the device but I couldn't do anything with it. Now I finally bothered to find a way to rece...

I bought an ezviz DB1 camera a while ago, expecting to be able to set it up to play a notification on my Google Home mini when someone pressed the doorbell but it looks like the only way to get any notification is through ezviz's own app. The problem is that notification takes 30 seconds or more to...

I use the Openbox window manager with Xfce applications, and for some strange reason during 2023 the Xfce Terminal started opening behind other windows. It must be because of a change in Xfce, since Openbox hasn't been updated forever. The problem only happened if I already had a terminal open whi...

Sometimes I need to cross compile something on my PC to run on a Raspberry Pi. It's really handy that Go has cross compilation built in, it would be even better if I could remember the right environment variables to use whenever I needed to build stuff. It should be easy to remember them, they are....