After watching Wolfgang’s review of the S920 , I went for chasing one and found a refurbished Fujitsu FUTRO S930 for 54€. I bought it with a few extra electronics parts and tested it with a few FOSS operating systems I know.Continue reading...
Some time ago, I adopted VictoriaMetrics as a replacement for Prometheus; which was already replacing InfluxDB. And recently, I realized that GoToSocial was exposing metrics in Prometheus format . So I decided to build a Grafana dashboard to keep an eye on my GtS instance.Continue reading...
Since I started using other Desktop OS than OpenBSD, I’m obsessed with limiting filesystem resources access from applications; especially Web browsers. This already applied to FreeBSD Web browsers here and there . This now has to be applied to Linux.Continue reading...
When it comes to rendering graphical representation of all the metrics I gather, I generally use RRDtool . Yes, I’m that old ;-) But I also have a Grafana instance from which I render stuff that can’t be done using RRDgraph. But, so far, I couldn’t generate a static PNG file from a panel to insert in a static web page.
But this was until I found the Grafana Image Rendered plug-in.Continue reading...
As I was testing OpenBSD on my refurbished ThinkPad T480s, I noticed that the fan kept blowing even though the laptop was IDLE. Given that I am a vigilant reader of misc@ , I already knew a few ThinkPads had been reported to be sluggish because of some BIOS settings regarding Thunderbolt.Continue reading...