The following tutorial is how you can setup an encrypted hard drive to work with Nextcloudpi. Please note that there are a few steps you will have to perform every time your pi goes down because the drive will require decrypting. Basic understanding of the command line will be required for this so if you don’t have these skills locate…
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Stop Fighting Apple-Just Force this Disclosure on buyers!
I’m super bored reading these kind of stories. I’ve been free from such software and hardware for many years so at this point it’s just boring. However, I do have a solution instead of trying to sue them for monopolizing or overcharging: just force a really simple, plain language disclosure document before the sale of any Apple Inc device. Here…
How to Convert YouTube Video into MP3 Audio
EDIT 24/10/04 The blog post that keeps living on (with edits) ha. I discovered today that youtube-dl doesn’t work but yt-dlp might be a re-named version of the same thing. I just did a sudo apt install yt-dlp and everything worked like it used to work below with the old commands. Thanks whoever kept it going! EDIT 20/12/22 Ever get…
The Three Best Alternatives to Android and iOS
I have to say “I’m sorry”. The fact of the matter is that I’ve been holding back this secret too long and I have to share it. I was doing a search for ‘alternatives to ios’ and ‘alternatives to android’ and I was surprised to see that there are only super old articles and the content results from alternativeto.net (which…
How to Fix Black and Decker Coffee Grinder in 10 minutes
Ever seen this coffee grinder? Hopefully you weren’t unfortunate to buy it, but if you were and dropped the lid JUST ONCE, you will know that Black and Decker designed this to break. They had to actually think long and hard in a design room to figure out a way to make sure this would break in the first…
The Cooling Power of Moonlight Confirmed with Quick and Free DIY Test
As I started to investigate and question many things programmed into me in school, one of the items that really shook my world was the idea that the moonlight may actually possess cooling properties. I watched a quick video like this: At first, I absolutely couldn’t accept it, or believe it. I also did not have the financial ability to…
Bypass Empty cartridge Brother Printer to Keep Printing
If you are like me, you bought your Brother scanner printer because you wanted a decent scanner and perhaps the odd black and white print. Nothing more. That’s why you didn’t pay a lot. Well, built into the ‘cheap printer’ business model at Brother is a nasty little trick which says ‘When their colour cartridge runs out (which is really…
How to Reset/Purge Brother Printer Page Counter
So you have an ink cartridge and Brother decided that it was empty and you disagree and want to milk it further? One thing that might work for you is to reset the internal page counter. It’s fairly public understanding that printer companies have tech inside the machines that essentially tell it when it has printed enough and to print…
The 9 and the 1: Who Really Got Healed?
Luke 17: 11-19 And it came to pass, as he went to Jerusalem, that he passed through the midst of Samaria and Galilee. And as he entered into a certain village, there met him ten men that were lepers, which stood afar off: And they lifted up [their] voices, and said, Jesus, Master, have mercy on us. And when he…
How to Eat a Digital Elephant One Bite at a Time
I can’t believe I didn’t blog this before but let’s put my regrets aside. So, you have come to realize that everyone who knows how technology works was right – it’s all spying on you. And, well, you don’t like it but – you don’t know where to start. You feel overwhelmed. Many people have these kind of feelings I’m…