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New Raspberry Pi setup - Part III (DAV)

gerrit@funzt.one (gerrit) — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 18:26:19 +0100

CardDAV, CalDAV and WebDAV

In part III of this series (s. part I and part II) I’m going to highlight how I installed a Cal-/CardDAV and WebDAV server on my Pi. This will require valid certificates again (s. here for help).

Please note: this setup is for internal use only - do not expose it to the internet!

Arch Linux + systemd-boot + LUKS + btrfs

gerrit@funzt.one (gerrit) — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 14:34:14 +0100

After switching from Windows to CachyOS on my gaming laptop and seeing how easy it would be to activate secure boot with systemd-boot as boot manager, I decided to re-install Arch Linux on my main computer and give it a new disk layout.

Switched to Hugo

gerrit@funzt.one (gerrit) — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 18:53:23 +0100

New theme, new site generator: I switched from Jekyll to Hugo. There is still some stuff I need to figure out, but overall the transfer was not very complicated. Jekyll worked fine, but I found it always a little difficult to handle all those ruby dependencies, whereas Hugo is just a binary and installed quite easily. Also, finding a theme which does not load tons of stuff from CDNs was easier with Hugo. Anyway, there’s still some parts I’d like to tweak, but for now it seems fine. :-)

New Raspberry Pi setup - Part II (Pi-hole)

gerrit@funzt.one (gerrit) — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 19:29:53 +0100

Install Pi-hole

In part I of this series I described how I installed Raspberry Pi OS. Now that we got the basics configured, let’s start installing Pi-Hole. I basically followed Mike Kutz’ blog, see here and here.

New Raspberry Pi setup - Part I (OS installation)

gerrit@funzt.one (gerrit) — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 15:32:08 +0200

When trying to avoid “big tech” self hosting is a great way to achieve this. Since I first started out with my Raspberry Pi running Pi-hole I’ve added quite a lot of services - and it still performs very well. So I thought I’d write an updated series of how the Pi is set up, starting with the new OS. I’ll then add one post for each service I’ve got running. I’ll reference my old posts in case there are any.

New TLD

gerrit@funzt.one (gerrit) — Sat, 09 Aug 2025 14:08:00 +0200

Just FYI: So I moved this blog to a new TLD. Formerly funzt.info, now: https://funzt.one (this TLD is just less expensive…). Also, this blog is now hosted via GitLab pages, which makes updating easier.

Arch Linux with LUKS + LVM

gerrit@funzt.one (gerrit) — Sun, 23 Mar 2025 09:41:17 +0100

When I saw that Arch Linux was actually providing a guided installer again, I was up for the challenge. Having used Arch Linux a couple of years ago very happily I wanted to give it a try again. I would have done earlier, but the manual installation process is quite time consuming and I was too lazy to go through with it. As it turned out, the installer failed on me and my setup, so I did go through installing Arch Linux the “hard way” ;-)

Add DAV server to Raspberry Pi

gerrit@funzt.one (gerrit) — Sun, 14 Jul 2024 13:21:01 +0200

After installing Pi-hole and Vaultwarden (and even a MiniDLNA server) on my Raspberry Pi there were still plenty of resources left. So I decided to add a DAV server to the setup. Until then I was syncing my addressbook and calendar with my email account on Posteo, which I only kept for the DAV capabilities.

Add Vaultwarden to Pi-hole

gerrit@funzt.one (gerrit) — Sun, 23 Jun 2024 17:06:49 +0200

If followed my last post about setting up Pi-hole on a Raspberry Pi, you will probably have a Raspberry Pi running all the time leaving still some resources unused. Why not add something useful? Like a password manager?

Setting up Pi-hole on a Raspberry Pi

gerrit@funzt.one (gerrit) — Mon, 20 May 2024 09:36:48 +0200

As ads and tracking can be considered a huge privacy and security concern I finally decided to setup a Pi-hole in my private network. So far, I was relying on browser add-ons (like uBlock Origin, NoScript) and Mullvad DNS, but that of course did not cover all my network devices.

Debian 12 and HiRes audio

gerrit@funzt.one (gerrit) — Thu, 28 Dec 2023 18:30:27 +0100

Besides the small file size I never was a fan of MP3 audio files. MP3s are fine when listening to them via bluetooth earphones on your phone, but even tracks encoded with maximal quality sound bad when listening to them via a good headphone. So, I started very early ditching MP3s in favour of flac to archive my CDs in order to maintain the original CD quality (HiFi). Today you can even have “better-than-CD” sound quality, usually referred to as “HiRes”. Let me state that I don’t know if my hardware equipment or my old ears are capable of getting the difference between “CD quality” and “HiRes”. Nevertheless, I’d like to think so and give it a try anyway. :-)

New phone - new OS

gerrit@funzt.one (gerrit) — Sat, 14 Oct 2023 16:41:43 +0200

Google’s support for my current Pixel phone will end in a couple of weeks and though CalyxOS will probably still release updates for quite a while, it will not receive full security updates anymore. Thus I opted for a new Pixel 7a. It’s a nice phone, not too expensive, about the size of my old Pixel 4a(5G) and will be supported by Google until May 2028. Of course, I wanted to replace Google’s version of Android with a privacy respecting custom ROM again.

LUKS2 + YubiKey Bio

gerrit@funzt.one (gerrit) — Sun, 16 Jul 2023 08:17:49 +0200

UPDATED Oct. 2024: added extra instructions for Debian

Recently I got myself a YubiKey Bio which I wanted to replace the YubiKey 5 with in terms of unlocking my LUKS2 encrypted drive(s). In this setup you can then simply use your fingerprint to unlock the drive, which I consider more secure than entering a PIN. I’m not sure if it’s a good idea to add multiple FIDO2 keys to systemd’s cryptsetup - I read about some issues - so I removed the YubiKey 5 first.

Installing Nextcloud All-in-One docker image in rootless mode

gerrit@funzt.one (gerrit) — Sun, 04 Jun 2023 19:26:17 +0200

Running your own instance of Nextcloud is probably one of the best solutions for reclaiming some privacy and avoiding services hosted by Google, Apple or Microsoft. I tried to cover the task of installing Nextcloud on a Synology NAS here by using the archive file provided by Nextcloud. However, they also offer some very handy “AIO - all-in-one docker image” which will pretty much take care of everything.

Fedora 38

gerrit@funzt.one (gerrit) — Sat, 06 May 2023 18:49:26 +0200

With version 38 just being released I decided to give Fedora a try again. From time to time I’d like to check out how things are going with other distributions. And sometimes it’s nice to have really current versions of your favorite applications. ;-) So I replaced my beloved Debian 11 with Fedora 38.