Aigars Mahinovs
Taking a good group photo consists of multiple aspects: hardware scouting organization preparation execution processing publishing I can say with confidence that nearly everything here comes from having failed to do these things right at least once, even on the latest attempts, so this is an...
Aigars Mahinovs
A question came up in private conversations, but the answer IMHO is useful generally, so this is a repost. The question was generally on the topic of divercity and outreach - if it does really help underpriviledged people to give them some handout and hope that that somehow turns them into...
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Two years of midsize electric sedan experience This February (2026) marks a full 10 years since I started working for BMW, and a key employment bonus is the ability to drive a company car on special two-year leasing terms. Just before the new year 2026 started, I said goodbye to my latest company...
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Snapshot mirroring in Debian (and Ubuntu) The use of snapshots has been routine in both Debian and Ubuntu for several years now—or more than 15 years for Debian, to be precise. Snapshots have become not only very reliable, but also an increasingly important part of the Debian package archive. This...
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Debconf 25 photos Debconf 25 came to the end in Brest, France this year a couple weeks ago. This has been a very different and unusually interesting Debconf. For me it was for two, related reasons: for one the conference was close enough in Western Europe that I could simply drive there with a car...
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Debconf 24 is coming to a close in Busan, South Korea this year. I thought that last year in India was hot. This year somehow managed to beat that. With 35C and high humidity the 55 km that I managed to walk between the two conference buildings have really put the pressure on. Thankfully the air...
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At the end of the last part of this, we got a Home Assistant OS installation that contains in itself a Firefly III instance and that contains all the current financial information. They are communicating and calculating predictions for me. The only part that I was not 100% happy with was...
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At the end of the last part of this, we got a Home Assistant OS installation that contains in itself a Firefly III instance and that contains all the current financial information. Now I will try to connect the two. While it could be nice to create a fully-featured integration for Firefly III to...
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So now that I have something that looks very much like a budgeting setup going, I am going to .. delete it! Why? Well, at the end of the last part of this, the Firefly III instance was running on a tiny Debian server in a Docker container right next to another Docker container that is running the...
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A week ago I started to migrate my financial planning from a closed source system to a new system based on an open source, self-hosted solution. Main candidate is Firefly III - a relatively simple financial planner with a rather rich feature set and a solid user base and developer support....