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…
Category: Life Skills
How to Connect and Sync a Thunderbird Calendar with Nextcloud
This should have been easy, but as all things it ended up hard. First, when I tried a simple import of my Thunderbird .ics calendar into my new Nextcloud install, I got ‘could not parse data’ errors. Wouldn’t end. After much searching it seems like there might be something in the .ics data that doesn’t work with new Nextcloud, or,…
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 insert and center an image in a markdown doc using Pandoc
This is another one of those posts that I wrote for only one purpose: Making something a little easier on someone else who may have to do the same thing. First, I will credit my ultimate source. Thanks Daniel for your post. I was able to read it and find the piece I needed in the middle. Here is the…
How to Play a Practical Joke on someone with SSH and Stock Ubuntu
Why? This tutorial is both technical and amusing. There was someone in a room I didn’t want in the room, so I had the idea “I wonder if I can ssh into the computer near them and play some audio out of the speakers and freak them out a bit?” Turns out I can.And it worked.And here’s how to do…
How to share files on your Ubuntu Touch device with your LAN network
Before you Begin This is for Local area network (LAN) sharing only, so you have to make sure you are connected to the same network. For networking reasons that are beyond my pay level, if one computer is connected to the ethernet cable in the same LAN and the other is on the wifi network, this won’t work. Both have…
HOW TO MOVE FILES FROM ONE UBUNTU MACHINE TO ANOTHER (USING HTTP SERVER)
For some reason this was hard to find clear instructions for. I found a bunch of stack exchange articles but syntax and other things made it harder than it should have been. Once I actually got it working it was nice and simple and a good life skill… Objective Be able to move files from one ubuntu machine to another…
How to Get Rid of Line End Spacing when Pasting from PDF to Libre Office
Backdrop I was pasting text from a PDF to a LibreOffice Writer doc. At the end of each line is an annoyng space. I had to either a) manually erase those spaces or b) find a better way. Hopefully this ‘better way’ will help you since it was oddly a bit hard to figure out. Solution This post ultimately contained…
Connecting Nymea to Zone Minder for a Quick Video Surveillance System
Lately, I have been quickly progressing on my journey to try to use nymea in my home and other places. You can read about how I set up Nymea on an ubuntu USB drive with persistency here if you want to do it too. Shortly after setting it up and getting it working with a few standard IoT devices, I…
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…