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…
Category: Freedom and Privacy
CONNECTING RETICULUM APP SIDEBAND TO THE GENERAL INTERNET FOR A TEST CHAT CONNECTION
What is this even for? This is a follow up to my How to get started with reticulum on an Ubuntu machine article, after getting everything going and chatting with myself and my guinea pig mom in my own home network… it was time to see if I could do the same through the world webs… but it was harder…
HOW TO GET STARTED WITH RETICULUM ON UBUNTU MACHINE
What is this all about? I discovered Reticulum and wanted to simply quickly test it with two laptops (to start) to get a quick feel. I decided I would also use the Sideband app as the GUI interface for it because it works on Android and I assumed that would be my second test. I based this tutorial on the…
CRAZY 550 VERIFICATION FAILED NO SUCH USER SENDER VERIFY FAILED PROBLEM AND SOLUTION
THE PROBLEM I wanted to walk through the play-by-play because this was not a normal troubleshooting episode and I feel someone else is going to discover this post and be glad to save the time I lost. Spoiler alert: The problem was old cpanel records! But it’s worth spending the time going through this post in detail… I also wanted…
Zone Minder – My Re-Visiting Journey
Way back in about 2009 or 2010 I remember my buddy installed something called zone minder on an old computer I had and with a few web cams, somehow or another I was able to monitor my coffee shop from home. It was pretty amazing and cool and free and open source. Fast forward to twenty-twenty-something, I was messing around…
Nymea Journey 3 – Making Some Stuff Work Without Smart Hardware
Not sure if you’re like me, but I like to try out some quick tests of a new system before I start buying hardware. My plan for the Nymea journey is first figure out how how to install it (covered here), then figure out how to be able to use it a bit before committing to server (covered here), then…
Planning Your Yunohost Install for Small Business
Yunohost is an amazing self-hosting platform with an incredible number of super valuable tools for small businesses ranging from website hosting to email hosting to email marketing. I’m really trying to force myself to move my business over to this platform to better protect company and customer data, as well as other financial savings. However, while going through the process…
My Journey to Nymea (land)
Edit: Feb 6, 2023 – Nymea has recently launched version 1.6 which appears to have added / adjusted at least some of my ‘positive criticism’ comments below so some may no longer be relevant. Further, be advised always to go to the official nymea.io documentation for the latest and greatest instructions. My stuff is just to go alongside with it.…
How to Set up your Ubuntu Server with a new or updated SSH key
Overcoming the ssh ‘permission denied’ message (and fears)…
Akaunting software – my sad situation with trial balance and possible need to leave
Well it pains me both financially and philosophically to have to start writing this blog but I need to do it so that someone else doesn’t end up in my situation. I made the choice to leave Quickbooks about 1 year ago today to https://akaunting.com/ . It is a very nice GUI and to be honest, it’s amazing… except for…