Tag: linux

  • Experimenting with Linux

    Experimenting with Linux

    Reading Time: 3 minutes This 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…

  • The Nicest Pi Setup Yet

    The Nicest Pi Setup Yet

    Reading Time: 2 minutes There 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…

  • Experimenting with Pi Hosted and Portainer

    Experimenting with Pi Hosted and Portainer

    Reading Time: 2 minutes Yesterday I watched a video about setting up a so I experimented with using the Pi-Hosted 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 containers instead of doing the same…

  • Sliding Between MacOS, Windows and Linux Daily

    Sliding Between MacOS, Windows and Linux Daily

    Reading Time: 2 minutes Recently 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…

  • Wifi and Hope with Raspberry Hopping

    Wifi and Hope with Raspberry Hopping

    Reading Time: 2 minutes I 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…

  • Installing Immich Alongside Photoprism

    Installing Immich Alongside Photoprism

    Reading Time: 5 minutes Last 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…

  • The Subtle Art of Trial and Error

    The Subtle Art of Trial and Error

    Reading Time: 4 minutes For 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…

  • Sticking with the Old or Trying New Things

    Sticking with the Old or Trying New Things

    Reading Time: 4 minutes Yesterday 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…

  • (CR)apple and authorisation issues.

    Reading Time: < 1 minute No doubt you remember that my laptop motherboard died. The effects are still being felt today. When you have applications, and when you have several computers you authorise them in order to have access to the same applications and music on more than one machine. This works fine most of…