Introduction Searching the internet has been both increasingly cumbersome and frightening due to privacy concerns with many of the major search engine providers (such as Google or Bing). Thankfully there are some other good options like Startpage, Qwant, and Mojeek. Some of them use results provided by the major providers like Google, and some of …
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Jul 03 2025
Dovecot 2.3 to 2.4 update problems
Dovecot, which is a secure IMAP server, released version 2.4.0 on 24 January 2025 and a minor revision of 2.4.1 on 28 March 2025. As such, I recently decided to update my instances from the 2.3 branch (version 2.3.21.1 to be exact) to this new 2.4 branch. Though major revision updates can often be problematic, …
Oct 09 2024
Gentoo Linux on the Framework 13 AMD 7840U with 2.8K display
Introduction Until recently, I had been using a very old Dell laptop for my personal needs. However, when the motherboard started failing I decided it was time to look into options for replacing the laptop. I looked through many, many options from the “mainstream” manufacturers (e.g. Dell, Lenovo, Acer) and some of the lesser-known manufacturers …
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