What a pain in the hindquarters… I lost about 2 hours of my life after I plugged in a Samsung 40″ monitor after having been using a Samsung 20″ Monitor. When I went back to my 20″ in my office, Ubuntu (I’m using Gnome currently until Unity8 is ready) my laptop continued to falsely detect the monitor as a 40″…
Category: Tutorial
Bridging a Matrix and Telegram Room
ASSUMPTIONS For this tutorial, we shall assume that you already have: An existing Matrix chat room of which you are administrator and A Telegram supergroup with admin rights to add members The Matrix room is set to “Anyone who knows the room’s link, apart from guests” in the “Who can access this room” settings of the group Encryption is turned…
How to Sync Files from Ubuntu Touch to Nextcloud using UBsync
Ubuntu Touch is awesome. Nextcloud is also awesome. Put them together and you have awesome… squared. How cool would it be to have your photos automatically sync to your own Nextcloud sever? Well, you can do it today and here is how. EDIT DEC 24, 2018 – Important Security Warning before beginning! Currently as of the time of this post,…
MAKING DDNS WORK IN OPEN WRT
OpenWRT project is awesome for sure. It’s free software (open source) and it allows you to use your router the way you want, unlike how they usually come out of the box. That said, there doesn’t appear to be a super vibrant community around it (yet) so some stuff is pretty hard to do. I’ve created an OpenWRT English-speaking Telegram…
Flashing OpenWRT onto a D-link DIR-615 – The Sequel!
The funny part about this blog is that I spent an entire day searching for how to do this and then I ended up landing on a blog post with the answer… written by ME. in this 2015 blog post Lol or something? This tutorial assumes you are using Ubuntu and know how to access your terminal and do some…
Doing a Really Big and Fast First Upload on a Fresh Nextcloudpi Install (the Samba Way)
EDIT 190515: Oops. Apparently in the instructions below in the Nautilus section I failed to say how to actually connect. Adding that now. Sorry. Nice long title. Thankfully the speed of getting your first big upload to your new Nextcloudpi (NCP) server won’t be so long, thanks to this tutorial! By spending 10 minutes and doing this tutorial you will…
Doing a Successful Fresh Nextcloud Install without Screwing Up Something Big
The premise of this tutorial is to get a nextcloud instant back up and running while throwin away all the user data and nextcloud customizations of your last install but while keeping all the file stuff for a new upload. In my case, we have a ‘small operation’ and it’s not a big deal to just do a completely fresh…
Setting up Nextcloudpi (NCP) with an Encrypted Hard Drive
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…
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…
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…