Technology, Tutorial, Ubuntu

Overcoming Painful Setup for Selenium with Python on Ubuntu

EDIT 191118I realized that I need to execute the script below every time my computer reboots so my current workflow is to leave the command commented out in script and then run it before I begin. You can probably run it with the script too? This one: export PATH=$PATH:/home/user/path/to/browser_drivers_for_automation I had the following continual painfull errors: selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: ‘my_folder_name’ executable…

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Freedom and Privacy, Life Skills, Nextcloud, Technology, Tutorial, Ubuntu

HOW TO MAKE A NEXTCLOUD PI BOX WORK AS REVERSE PROXY TO YUNOHOST

Background The situation was that I wanted to test out the very cool project Yunohost but I already had Nextcloudpi (another awesome project!) running on my local network. I already had a DDNS service (No-ip) running which was pointing to my Nextcloudpi (“NCP” moving forward) box, and a second DNS service that I set up which pointed to my router…

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Freedom and Privacy, Life Skills, Nextcloud, Technology, Tutorial, Ubuntu

HOW TO SET UP YUNOHOST WITH YOUR OWN DOMAIN (USING CLOUDFLARE)

EDIT 19/06/12 – made some tweaks to this after realizing a few small errors. Sorry if you followed before June 12 🙁 I really wanted to self-host a kind of ‘family box’ which would allow me to have self-hosted email, Nextcloud, websites, and a few other basic things and not have it running on someone else’s server. During the process…

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Freedom and Privacy, Life Skills, Nextcloud, Tutorial, Ubuntu Touch

How to Set up a Calendar with Ubuntu Touch and Nextcloud

1. Set up online account in Ubuntu Touch You will need all your calendar info from your Nextcloud instance before beginning. Looks something like this: https://yourdomain.com/nextcloudserverlocation/remote.php/dav/calendars/username open calendar middle icon that shows grid calendar ‘add online calendar’ choose NC enter credentials 2. Sync UT calendar ‘should’ start syncing right away and you’ll see a little icon appear showing that sync…

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