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…
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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…
SETTING UP OLLAMA ON AN UBUNTU MACHINE
This tutorial is an ubuntu (vanilla) version of this excellent ollama blog. Following this blog wasn’t so easy for me because it assumed a bunch of dependencies that I didn’t have on my ubuntu machine. The blog doesn’t really say clearly that you need pip and venv installed on the local machine in order to make this blog work smoothly.…
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 Wipe Out a Podman Container with Podman-compose Setup
Its kind of a tricky post I’m making here because actually there is no difference between how you remove the containers whether it was created with podman-compose or otherwise. However, it took me a long time to figure that out and get the quick and simple answer so here is a blog to cut to the chase. If you created…
Doing a Direct-to-Local MYSQL Dump
One of the most valuable things I learned in my ‘my-server-has-run-out-of-memory’ crisis was that I can dump my database directly to my local machine without having to first save it to the server and then download it from there. It is surprising that it took me well over 5 years to find it but what a gem for every person…
How to get a Podman Container IP address with less errors
(Edited Solution Dec 13, 2024) (Second edit of Solution Dec 28 2024) Background I was trying to get the IP address of one of my podman containers. I was using this command over and over with much pain (and no gain): podman inspect -f ‘{{ .NetworkSettings.IPAddress }}’ <container-name> Journey to the Solution Finally, after much frustration, I resorted to AI…
How to Use Bitbucket as a Backup Tool for Upgrades and Changes to Server
I had never heard of Bitbucket before to be honest. Turns out it’s a kind of ‘private repository thing’. And you can get a free account to start. Pretty nice. I was asked to ‘put your files into Bitbucket’ by a development company. I didn’t know how so I figured I’d just figure it out and then make a blog…
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…
How to Delete or Remove Completely an extra page in Inkscape
First, all credit where credit is due. Inkscape is awesome. Amazing vectored graphics program and with the new GUI update, it’s looking and feeling really nice. However, this one situation sucked 10 minutes of my time TWICE, so I’m writing a blog on how to do it in case this happens again. For whatever reason, whenever I load Inkscape these…