A coredump is something the kernel initiates when an application crashes/segfaults. Nowadays it usually passes that task on to systemd. This takes time, storage and CPU. I'm not a system developer. I have no idea what to do with a coredump. I don't need it. There's also some threads online suggestin...

There are some apps in Openrepos which do not seem to work anymore for SFOS 4.x. But you don't really need an app, all you need is a systemd timer & service and a simplistic shell script. Gain command line access to your phone and become root. > cd /etc/systemd/system > nano hosts.timer ho...

Assuming Remote connection is enabled in Settings -> Developer tools, and works. Recent versions of Sailfish OS (currently 4.4.0.58) use a socket that listens on port 22, and start sshd (to be precise, a per-connection sshd@.service) whenever someone knocks. Pretty neat, probably saves some res...

journalctl -b | grep watchdog; sudo dmesg | grep watchdog Both commands return something like NMI watchdog: Enabled. Permanently consumes one hw-PMU counter. I have no use for this watchdog on a desktop computer. This link already contains all the information required to disable it, but here's the m...

And enable it when required. Also see this related article. Premise & problem I have a USB hard drive used only for weekly automated backups. It is always connected to the same port and never gets removed. At all other times I want this drive to be unmounted, off, invisible, powered down. I wa...