Fixing paste in vim running under tmux (bracketed paste)

Writing this mostly as a reference for myself should I run into this problem in the future.

Pasting into vim running under tmux was producing weird results. For example pasting wiwiw would actually produce Wiw.

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Zigbee extension lead from Lidl (Tuya)

I had a chance to try Zigbee extension lead sold by Lidl under SilverCrest brand.

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Connecting DeltaSol controller to Home Assistant with ESPHome

Browsing the list of ESPHome components I noticed a picture that looked very familiar. In my house I have this device Joule DeltaSol BS HE branded as "Joule" and labeled "DeltaSolⓇ BS HE" and on ESPHome site they show "Resol DeltaSolⓇ BS Plus": Resol DeltaSol BS Plus

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Installing Ubuntu userland with FreeBSD Linux Binary Compatibility

This topic is generally well documented in the relevant part of the FreeBSD Handbook Chapter 12. Except for a small detail which becomes important in certain configurations.

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Grub does not recognize ext4 partition with certain features enabled

I was recently installing Arch Linux in a VM following my own notes which are a simplified and shortened version of official instructions. The same procedure clearly worked approximately 6 months ago but for some unknown reason now the new system would not boot and would instead drop into Grub prompt. It turned out that Grub was not able to read ext4 filesystem produced with the recent mkfs.ext4 command.

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Resurrecting my blog

For a while I wanted to restart my blog and this is what I'm doing now.

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