I post here stuff about Free Software, as well as some of my personal thoughts.
Articles
Guides
- Jan 30 2023 - A beginner's guide to rsync
- Nov 29 2022 - Using multiple domains for Luke Smith's emailwiz
- Nov 10 2022 - Use a password manager! On the command line!
- Jun 08 2022 - Installing lineage OS 15.1 on Nokia 6 TA-1021 2017
- May 12 2022 - How to use matrix: for normies!
Posts and rants
- May 09 2023 - Complete server overhaul
- Mar 21 2023 - Introducing heresy-flasher script
- Jan 27 2023 - I've stopped using mobile phones in my life.
- Nov 12 2022 - I want GNU+Linux phones to happen and the only reason is rsync.
- Sep 06 2022 - Phone addicts are just utterly annoying
- May 05 2022 - Nvidia has liberated a part of their GPU drivers.
Sticky posts
📌 Check my fediverse!
Sep 7 2023Minor sticky posts are moved to my fediverse. I will continue to post here if i think its important enough for people to see.
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About me

I am a Free Software enthusiast, GNU+Linux enthusiast, and GNU+Linux systems administrator from the Czech Republic. I am an administrator of drgnz.club and other servers as well. In free time I also enjoy going to woods and geocaching. I am usually very busy with work, messing with computers or other things - I rarely ever consoom any kind of media, I sometimes watch YouTube through Invidious. With Waffelo we are building our own internet world which we have control over, and not some corporation, and we try to make this easy to do for other people as well. That's why drgnz.club exists.
Services I host and/or use
This is a list of all services I use. Most are self-hosted and run on my server (though some on my friend waffelo's domain). All of them are also 100% Free Software.
🌍Main Site | bidzan.net | That's what you see right now! |
⚡Matrix | @jakub:drgnz.club | My #2 choice when it comes to secure messaging |
jakub@bidzan.net | See also my GPG pubkey for encrypted messaging. | |
🦊Fediverse | @jakub@social.drgnz.club | A federated twitter-like social media service. |
🐦Cinny | chat.drgnz.club | A cozy web-based matrix client |
🫖Forgejo (git) | git.drgnz.club | Lightweight git frontend that doesn't suck |
📹PeerTube | video.drgnz.club | A Free Software, Federated video-sharing platform. |
Invidious | yt.drgnz.club | Lightweight frontend for YouTube. |
🔍Searx | searx.drgnz.club | High-quallity Meta-search engine. |
🇱Libreddit | lr.drgnz.club | Lightweight and BS-less reddit client. |
⛏️Minetest | mt.drgnz.club | Minetest server that everyone is welcome to join! |
Public keys for verification
GPG public key --------------------------------------------- pub rsa3072 2023-02-24 [SC] F67B F5CC A413 1304 EB84 58BD 366B DA26 4366 E815 uid [ultimate] Jakub Bidžan [jakub@bidzan.net] sub rsa3072 2023-02-24 [E] OMEMO XMPP device keys --------------------------------------------- Gajim (desktop): 0B50298B 653BFC98 AB7B7382 5A3AA079 4A6ACC80 ADD478BF 2DE6F8AD 942A324D Cheogram (mobile) 159B0888 56C3424E C63EE8E0 62637ABF 7836FD4F 76723943 4F37CD6C 7239C57E
Computers I use
Clevo N350DW This is a laptop that i managed to get for a fairly good price while it being in an okay state. It is a replacement for my ThinkPad X200 which was truly the best computer I ever used, but it lacked in performance for the things i wanted to do with it. This laptop supports a dock, has removable battery, relatively cheap replacement parts (excluding the screen), backlit keyboard and so on. It would almost be more thinkpad than a thinkpad itself, but it has a pretty "not great, not terrible" keyboard. Also no trackpoint which bugs the crap out of me, but what can you do. What this laptop is also unique in is that it has a desktop socketed processor. That is extremely rare in laptops so it immediately caught my attention. I am planning to put a lower-power-consumption intel xeon in it in the future, if possible.
[SYS]: Gentoo Linux [CPU]: Intel Core i5-6600T [RAM]: 16GB DDR4 [SSD]: 1024 GB SSD [HDD]: 2TB WD BLUE [SCR]: TN panel 1366x768 (upgradable)
ThinkPad X200 This ThinkPad used to be my daily driver and my #1 favorite computer. It runs 100% Free Software including the BIOS, it has phenomenal keyboard, has only trackpoint which I prefer, has tons of expansion and tons of ports. I replaced it with a more powerful clevo laptop nowdays. I still use it though.
[SYS]: Arch GNU+Linux [CPU]: Intel Core 2 Duo P8600 [RAM]: 8GB DDR3 [SSD]: 512 GB SSD [SCR]: TN panel 1280 x 800 [KEY]: Classic keyboard
Server This server is running on a custom computer that I've recieved for free and then gave a friend of mine. It has:[SYS]: Gentoo Linux [CPU]: AMD Ryzen 5 5600 [RAM]: 32GB DDR4 [HDD]: Samsung 970 EVO (2TB) [GPU]: None