Apple's Airplay is a really great thing. You simply select the existing Airplay-enabled speakers (in my case Sonos) in the Mac/iPhone and the party starts. In the background, the Bonjour service is responsible for this smooth process. Under Linux there is avahi for this. After looking at th...

Today I had a few problems again with brew, which is getting on in years. So I looked for an alternative for brew and came across nixos. At first I didn't realize how nixos could help me here. But a quick look at the documentation and I realized what nix is capable of.

🤷 Why would one want to have

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Temperature monitoring always plays an important role in IT. There are various very expensive solutions for this purpose. In this article, I will show you an inexpensive alternative.

Normally we use a Raspberry Pi for such things, but here is a solution that also works well with existing Windo...

Today one of my colleagues triggered a Windows 11 feature update on a VM. The result was a Windows 11 VM that would no longer start. The error is actually a well-known problem inaccessible bootdeviceand has often fixed with the following instructions https://nerdschalk.com/stop-code-inaccessible-...

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Today I finally found the time to fight my audio interface device names, which in my opinion are broken.

The current situation is quite annoying because the names are too long. Furthermore there are devices listed that I don't use at all (Displayport/ HDMI Audio) see for yourself:

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