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How to find and buy a dumb TV
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🗓 2025-07-05
⏱ 6 minutes reading timeHow to find and buy a dumb TV What I call a dumb TV is a television without any internet capabilities, so that any tracking of you and your watching behavior is impossible. In this article, I will sum up my experience with finding and buying one. My use-case is very traditional: input of digital, terrestrial channels via DVB-T2, alternatively via sattelite (DVB-S2/S2x) or cable (DVB-C2), use a classical DVD player, optionally, a small PC connected to access some media through Kodi. Read More...
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Printing Trouble with Linux Mint 21 Cinnamon to a Cups Server in the Local Network
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🗓 2025-01-26
⏱ 3 minutes reading timeSummary: Likely, a bug in mdns somewhere in the setup of mint/cups breaks local printing to a remote cups server on the local network. My Setup: To prevent misunderstandings, let me first explain my setup, since this fix only applies to such a setup: multiple devices (e.g. desktop, laptops, smartphones) within a local network all using a remote printer within the local network the printer (HP LaserJet 1320) is connected to a Raspberry 1B (512 MB RAM) with a usb cable. Read More...