Alpine Linux 3.23.0

By chimo on Dec. 4, 2025 (updated on Dec. 4, 2025)

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I’ve upgraded a bunch of Incus containers and my main machine and everything seems to be working so far.

The v3.23 Alpine Linux image for Incus isn’t yet available, but my trusty shuibar should notify me whenever that’s available so I can rebuild my custom base images.

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Offloading iOS apps

Going on vacation? Have an iPhone? There’s no need to delete Slack, or your favorite on-call app. Simply offload noisy apps. Why is this better than uninstalling them? Because it’s much easier to restore them once you are back. You do so with a single tap in eac…

via ¬ just serendipity 🍀 December 6, 2025

Migrating Our Music from Subsonic to Gonic

We have almost always self-hosted our music collection and, for a little over a decade now, have been streaming music from a self-hosted instance of Subsonic. However, that install is now positively ancient: the most recent release of Subsonic was cut in …

via www.bentasker.co.uk December 5, 2025

Adding a button to Home Assistant to run a shell command

Now that I have fixed my garage door controller, I wanted to see if I could use it from within Home Assistant, primarily so that I can then have a widget on my phone screen. In this case, the shell command is a simple curl invocation to a remote machine. (I…

via Neil's blog December 4, 2025