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…
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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…
How to Reset/Purge Brother Printer Page Counter
So you have an ink cartridge and Brother decided that it was empty and you disagree and want to milk it further? One thing that might work for you is to reset the internal page counter. It’s fairly public understanding that printer companies have tech inside the machines that essentially tell it when it has printed enough and to print…
View Your Mind: How to turn Xlink on
First of all, thanks a million to the creators of View Your Mind mind mapping software. It’s a great piece of useful free license software! Everything was going very well while I was using it. I especially found useful the xlink (xlinks?) feature. This feature will allow you to connect a visual reference from one branch to any other branch…
Ubuntu: How to Decrease Desktop Icon Size 16.04
It’s quite funny how easy this was but how long it took me to figure this out so I just thought I’d throw this online in case anyone is as dumb as me. Hopefully it helps someone and if it does, don’t tell anyone. 😉 Within Nautilus (your file browser) click the 4 square icon thing (THIS) Then, slide…
Ubuntu 16.04 – How to Make Brightness Keys Work on System76 Lemur
Nice computer. Usually works awesome. Just this one little bug every time I re-install the OS or upgrade it seems. Easy to fix but I always forget how to do it so here it is for everyone else who might be having issue. Might also solve all your other Intel brightness button issues so give it a shot! This also…
How to Install Jitsi on Ubuntu 16.04
Yes, this is the hard way but seems to be the ‘only way’ right now at the time of this blog. Always first check to make sure it’s not simply sitting in the software center before beginning this tutorial. No, I can’t figure out why the packages aren’t in the Ubuntu software centre. All I did to make this tutorial…
How to Sync a Calendar Between Owncloud/Nextcloud and Thunderbird Lightning
For some reason this is not that intuitive the first time and there don’t seem to be many/any specific tutorials out there. I kept getting a ‘modification fail’ error message or other errors. So, here you go: In Nextcloud/Owncloud 1. Log in to your browser-based owncloud/nextcloud page 2. Go to the top left and click the down arrow to access…
Great Bible Habit: Bible in a Year
I realized years ago that believers live in a very imperfect world. We are fish swimming upstream and there is nothing that the enemy of our soul would love more than to keep us weak and ignorant of God’s holy Word. I knew that I had to find some form of ‘structure’ around my daily Bible reading. I found that…