Ubuntu 22.04 on the HP Victus

New day, new gear. This post is about Ubuntu on the HP Victus 16-e0033nv and continues the long list of Ubuntu on laptops: Acer Nitro 5, HP ProBook, Asus VivoBook, Lenovo Thinkpad and probably others I'm forgetting about right now. The laptop comes with Windows 11 which I used mainly for a BIOS update. The … Continue reading Ubuntu 22.04 on the HP Victus →

English Windows keyboard with German umlauts

I frequently write in multiple languages and switching keyboards is cumbersome, especially when the written languages differ only by a few characters. With regard to German, I'd like a US Windows keyboard layout with German umlauts that are a bit easier accessible than the 3-stroke combination of the US international layout (which has combinations like … Continue reading English Windows keyboard with German umlauts →

Convert HTTP response body to status code with HAproxy

I'm using HAproxy to load-balance HTTP between two backend nodes. HAproxy is pretty smart about doing this, backing off failing nodes, retrying failed requests on healthy nodes etc. Recently I got a rather strange request: if a node responds with HTTP 200 (which in HTTP-terms means everything's peachy) and a particular payload, that should be … Continue reading Convert HTTP response body to status code with HAproxy →