Tag: raspberry pi
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A quick play with the AI Kit by Raspberry Pi
Reading Time: 2 minutesYesterday afternoon as I set off for my walk I noticed that the Pi AI Kit was in my post box. I moved it to the locked compartment and then went for my walk. After the walk I took the time to set it up and it went well. ## Easy Assembly…
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A Pi5, WordPress and ClasssicPress
Reading Time: 2 minutesLast night I started to install wordpress on the Pi5 and I got it to work. I then started to install ClassicPress via the ClassicPress switchtoclassicpress plugin and got blocked. I was blocked because in order for WordPress to update plugins, themes and wordpress it needs to have access to itself via…
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Of Rain and a Pi 5 4GB
Reading Time: 2 minutesRain was forecast today. If rain had not been forecast then I would have driven to Ins, near the Lake of Murten near Neuchatel to go around the lake at a slow up. I didn’t go, not because rain was forecast, but because rain was expected although not quantified. I like to…
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NixOS on a Pi
Reading Time: 2 minutesFor a few weeks I have tried to install NixOS on a raspberry Pi without much success. I have finally managed to get NixOS to work with a GUI/Desktop environment. I kept getting stuck at the command prompt but in the end [I found a blog post](https://mtlynch.io/nixos-pi4/) that helped me. ## What…
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A Rainy Day
Reading Time: 2 minutesThis morning it rained and this afternoon I fled from noise pollution. I had planned to write a blog post this morning but inspiration failed to come. I was distracted because I don’t know whether it is the USB ports on a PI 5 that have failed or if it is a…
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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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Blogging with the Pi 5
Reading Time: 3 minutesOver at least a week I have been blogging with the Pi 5 and an Apple keyboard. I am using the Apple keyboard just because it’s the one I have, rather than out of a preference for their keyboards over others. I have a full size keyboard but it lost a part…
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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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Of Tablets and Phones and Raspberry Pis
Reading Time: 4 minutesThis morning when driving back from the shops I heard someone in a podcast say that his fourteen year old niece was disgusted at the thought of using a laptop rather than a mobile phone and it made me think of something. In the age of iOS and Android devices replacing computers…