A mixed blog mostly about Linux

• 4.3.2026 24.4.2020 sailfish os, ungoogle

  Sailfish OS - Command Line Interface & Customisation

  Introduction to Sailfish OS.Edits to already existing files in system directories could be overwritten by updates. Right now this is only the case for the pulseaudio tweaks below. To …
• 27.2.2026 sailfish os, android

  Firewall for SFOS AppSupport Applications

  Android’s security model uses one user ID for each application. This makes it easy to create iptable rules to block network access of some apps.However, I prefer a …
• 27.2.2026 sailfish os, systemd, linux

  Hosts-based Ad Blocking on Sailfish OS

  To be found here (it’s high time I moved this to its own repository).PrimerAfter installation the script runs immediately, and then updates every week (configurable).
• 27.2.2026 2022-05-01 sailfish os, systemd, ssh, security, linux

  Making sshd more secure on Sailfish OS

  This article deals with making SSH access more secure on your SFOS phone, after initial SSH setup.Please read the chapter SSH on SFOS first.All Linux users & admins highly …
• 26.2.2026 sailfish os, linux, media

  Sailfish OS - Install yt-dlp

  This article has a parent article. It contains some preliminaries to the topics here. Also this article might be helpful.yt-dlp1 is an extremely vesatile utility that can download …
• 19.2.2026 linux, debian

  Initramfs: mount encrypted partitions non-interactively

  During installation of Debian stable I opted to encrypt everything.This includes GRUB asking for a password to unlock itself & the / partition during early boot.Then I get asked again …
• 30.8.2025 2020-12-16 dreams

  Dreams

  I dreamt that a woman with a child brought me to Libya in her small rickety car. It is unclear if she did it on purpose, i.e. abducted me …
• 1.7.2025 sailfish os

  Sailfish OS - Back Up & Restore Home Folder

  I broke my phone again. Damn slippery things. The screen is completely broken. Fortunately, I did a full backup of the complete /home partition the same day, and I had …
• 30.6.2025 sailfish os, linux

  Add shell customisations for all users

  To add shell customisations for all users, add a file to /etc/profile.d - I named it zzz.sh in the hope it will be sourced last and override some …
• 30.6.2025 linux, sailfish os

  Sudo on Sailfish OS

  Use devel-su one last time for the following steps:And add the line[If you prefer to use nano for editing, set the EDITOR environment variable accordingly.]