Tag: learning
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Swisscom MyAI as tutor
Reading Time: 2 minutesYesterday I asked MyAI by Swisscom, which is still in Beta, if it could help me write a JavaScript app to generate passwords and it did, with ease. It provided me with the javascript code I needed so I could cut and paste it, and then use node to run it straight…
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The Growing Desire to Self-Host
Reading Time: < 1 minuteAs WordPress grows and as my comfort with Hugo increases I question whether to move my blog from Infomaniak to being self-hosted on a Pi. I know that the Pi is not powerful but my site doesn’t get much traffic so I don’t think that it will be overwhelmed with traffic.…
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The End of my Exposed Host Experiment
Reading Time: 2 minutesFor months I have been hosting Immich, Photoprism and AudioBookShelf and the experiment has been a success. It has been stable and reliable so far and I did not detect anyone accessing my server without permission. I had these services as Exposed Host via the Swisscom router DMZ setting. it was easy…
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A Move from Self-Hosting on a Pi5 8gb to a Pi5 4gb
Reading Time: 2 minutesYesterday I started moving from a Pi5 8gb to a Pi5 4gb to self-host Audiobookshelf, Photoprism and Immich. I want to move from Ubuntu Desktop to ubuntu server to lower the head room required. When I checked I was using 3.9gb out of 8gb of ram. On the Pi5 4gb running the…
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Playing With Computers
Reading Time: 3 minutesThere are two types of computer users in the world. Those that use them for what they need to use them for, and those that play with computers. In the 90s an English teacher was frustrated by the grammatically incorrect “playing with computers” because for him, and others people play computer games…
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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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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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Listening to Podcasts While Walking
Reading Time: 3 minutesRecently I have been listening to plenty of [Late Night Linux](https://latenightlinux.com/) podcasts. I like them because they’re half an hour long, the adverts are half way through the show, and in general I don’t feel that they’re filling time to fill one and a half hours of podcast time. Plenty of other…
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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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PhotoPrism self-boot
Reading Time: 2 minutesThis morning I made PhotoPrism self-booting. I am not certain that this is the write term so I will specify what I mean. PhotoPrism, when run via docker boots, when we tell it to boot, like any other app on our laptop. This morning, after a little time spent with AI I…