Tag: linux
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Playing with Computers or Machines
Reading Time: 2 minutesHow many computers do you have at hand. Years ago I used to have two computers. A Mac Book Air and a Mac Book Pro. Eventually I sold the Mac Book Air and just used the Pro. I went to an event with the Pro and it was stolen so for a…
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NixOS and Darwin – Partial success
Reading Time: 2 minutesYesterday I experimented with NixOS and Debian. I managed to install NixOS on the Pi4 and I managed to implement several changes to the configuration.nix file before the Pi started to overheat and become much slower. At this point I tried to run Debian and that worked. At first Debian was running…
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Experimenting with Linux
Reading Time: 3 minutesThis morning when I should have been working on the daily blog post I decided to install Ubuntu on an external hard drive to see if it still worked as I remembered it working. It does, sort of. There are two approaches. You could install Linux straight onto the internal HD of a…
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The Nicest Pi Setup Yet
Reading Time: 2 minutesThere are several types of people. One of them is youtubers that try and fail until they succeed, and then there are people like me, who also try and fail until they succeed. In one case the individual probably gets millions of views, and earns enough to waste hundreds of dollars per…
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Experimenting with Pi Hosted and Portainer
Reading Time: 2 minutesYesterday I watched a video about setting up a [Mini Nextcloud Server on a Pi 5](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnZoTEZ2Z0U) so I experimented with using the [Pi-Hosted](https://pi-hosted.com/) script to install docker and then portainer. Pi Hoster uses two scripts. One installs Docker and the second one installs Portainer. Portainer is a web interface to install docker…
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Sliding Between MacOS, Windows and Linux Daily
Reading Time: 2 minutesRecently I have been sliding between Windows, Linux distributions and MacOS throughout the day. I use a mac for blogging, and Linux to experiment and learn new skills, and windows to watch Netflix and YouTube. I might be over-simplifying but that’s the simplified version. ## Pi and Linux I find that I…
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Wifi and Hope with Raspberry Hopping
Reading Time: 2 minutesI had a theory that if I wanted to I could transport a raspberry pi running ubuntu server from one place to another and connect by wifi, with a little tweak, or by ethernet if that didn’t work and today that thought was proved wrong. I spend at least an hour experimenting,…
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Installing Immich Alongside Photoprism
Reading Time: 5 minutesLast night I installed Immich on an HP laptop with ease. The issue I came up against is that laptops sleep and hibernate after a few minutes unless you are actively using them. This means that you need to use them whilst files are being transferred if you do not want tasks…
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The Subtle Art of Trial and Error
Reading Time: 4 minutesFor 40 CHF you can buy a Tapo or Xiaomi webcam and it is almost ready to be used as a webcam. You take it out of the box, plug it in, add an SD card, download the app, pair it with the phone and let the phone connect it to wifi…
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Sticking with the Old or Trying New Things
Reading Time: 4 minutesYesterday I went for a half hour drive to do a favour, but in arriving where I had to do the favour I found that people were deeply focused and did not want to be interrupted so I went for a walk. I didn’t swap to the hiking shoes that were waiting…