I am always on the search for the most private chat apps. I used to use Matrix a lot but I found inexplicably I never really liked the user experience, nor could I onboard friends and family easier. For the full reality of why this is a bit hard for me, I also avoid closed source software including ‘closed operating…
How to Quickly Create a Numbered Company in BC Canada
Important Information – Purpose of Entity: The purpose of this incorporation process (for me) is to: Create a legal corporation in BC, with a system-generated corporation numbered company Do it as cheap as possible Make sure it’s at least legal The purpose of this corporation is to do nothing other than hold shares. It will not be an actual operating…
How to completely uninstall/remove Freenet from ubuntu
Just a quick post because while Freenet from Freenet.org app is in early days, and you are moving from computer to computer and because there is currently no apt remove option (yet at least) I decided to post this so others can easily find it and execute. If you’re like me, you installed Freenet on an Ubuntu machine via the…
How to Fix the Lexmark Load MP feeder with Custom Type 6 paper” error message on Ubuntu
What is this? All day long I was getting this “Load MP feeder with Custom Type 6 paper” error message on my Lexmark MS510dn. Does this only happen between ubuntu and Lexmark? No idea, probably not. However I wanted to emphatically point out my OS just in case. I must have wasted a collective half a day on this when…
HOW TO MIGRATE TO A STALWART EMAIL SERVER FROM SOME OTHER EMAIL PROVIDER
WHAT IS THIS? This post is like most of my other posts – a documented journey and a kind of ‘how to’ manual. Scenario: I have a paid email server for a company I have shut down. I don’t want to pay every month for this premium email but I also don’t want to shut down my email addresses in…
EXAMPLE PODMAN-COMPOSE YAML FILE FOR NEXTCLOUD ON UBUNTU SERVER
What is this? This is basically the ‘nextcloud version’ of this n8n post. It’s the ‘other pod’ that I setup in my multi-pod environment. Directory Comments For the directory structure to hold this setup, if you want to copy exactly what I did, you can copy and paste this next block of commands navigate to your HOME directory and run…
SETTING UP N8N IN MULTI-POD CONTAINER ENVIRONMENT ON UBUNTU WITH CADDY
What is this? This is a kind of ‘partner post’ to go alongside this detailed n8n configuration post. I wanted to keep the configuration details a bit separated and the kind of ‘networking and connecting’ stuff on it’s own here. At this point, we will assume that you have been able to get the n8n container going with the postgres…
EXAMPLE PODMAN-COMPOSE YAML FILE FOR N8N ON UBUNTU SERVER
What is this? After a grueling battle with both learning Podman and getting better with containers, Caddy, databases, etc, I finally came up with a nice podman-compose.yaml file that works well for me in a MULTI-POD / MULTI-CONTAINER environment. I wanted to share it just so that others could see how I set it up and maybe use it as…
KEEPING PODMAN CHAMP STATUS WITH A HANDY-DANDY SIDE KICK GUIDE
What is this? You’ve got podman up and running in one of many ways.You’ve decided to stay for the longer haul.The passage of time quickly erases your memory so you don’t remember what’s important or what commands to run and all that stuff and you lose your Podman Champ StatusYou open up this page and quickly refresh yourself and once…
SPINNING UP THE PODMAN NEXTCLOUD CONTAINER – TERMINAL-COPY-PASTE STYLE
What is this? This post is kind of my original journey into podman and getting a quick proof-of-concept pod up and running. In the end I changed paths away from quadlets and terminal-pasting in favour of podman-compose (like docker compose) style setup because I like the neatness of the ‘recipe’ of a compose.yaml file. However, I am not done with…