My CM3588 project — a 4-NVMe ARM64 home NAS on 10 W idle
FriendlyElec's CM3588 NAS Kit turns an RK3588 compute module into a 4-bay NVMe home NAS with 2.5 GbE. About 10 W idle. Debian on mainline kernel, ZFS on root, Samba, Tailscale.
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3Posts on X2Q tagged debian. Updated as new posts are published.
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Print to PDF on Linux — set up a system-wide PDF printer with cups-pdf (2026)
cups-pdf gives you a virtual printer that writes a PDF instead of printing to paper — available system-wide to every application, from the command line, and over the network from a headless box. Install it, restart CUPS, and your PDFs land in ~/PDF.
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sudo without a password on Ubuntu/Debian — safely (2026)
Passwordless sudo is convenient for automation and lab boxes — and a foot-gun if you do it carelessly. Here's the modern, safe way: a validated drop-in under /etc/sudoers.d, scoped as narrowly as you can get away with.