After moving my HP Color LaserJet Pro MFP M477fdw from my Huawei S6720-32C-PWH-SI to a Ubiquiti Unifi Switch Flex running OpenWrt master, I noticed the printer randomly coming out of standby. Looking at the OpenWrt log, I noticed the DSA interface connected to the printer to be flapping.

Like many other people, I too started experiencing crashes since upgrading Thunderbird from 102 to 115. On my workstation and M2 MacBook Air, these crashes have become less frequent. However, on my old XPS13, which I'm still using because the Asahi kernel does not support DP-ALT mode on the M2 MacBook Air yet, Thunderbird would crash every time I tried to go to my companies' mailbox. Extremely annoying, and as it doesn't seem to produce core dumps, probably hard to debug.

Yesterday I picked up the Banana Pi BPI-F3 I ordered 2 weeks ago. It is joining the small army of RISC-V devices I already own:

• Espressif ESP32-C3 (20x)
• Espressif ESP32-C6 (20x)
• SiFive HiFive Unmatched
• StarFive VisionFive 2

After giving the Armbian Noble image a quick try and being unimpressed, I decided to try installing Gentoo on it. I'll be documenting the process here. The first step: compile U-Boot.

After 14 years of using Drupal for my blog, I said goodbye to Drupal. This has been long overdue.

I guess better late than never...

So we've got a failover IP, and a nice trick to be able to get the same WAN IP on both our routers. If you do stateless packet filtering, this is actually enough, and your redundant setup is already finished. However, if you do stateful packet filtering, the moment the failover IP moves to the backup router, your connection will be dropped because it doesn't have any knowledge about it in its connection tracking table.