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…
Category: Ubuntu
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…
Getting a Fresh Start by Backing up, Re-installing, Then Restoring What you Need on Ubuntu
It was hard to make a good title with proper English on this one because I wasn’t sure how to exactly describe what I’m doing here. Hopefully you located this blog ok and are trying to do the same thing I am. The Goal of This Exercise Every computer needs a new operating system ‘refresh’ at some point because of…
SETTING UP STALWART WITH PODMAN AND QUADLET
SECTION 1 – BACKGROUND This document comes from my many attempts to make this work with podman-compose setup. I got it working and hope to document those details at a later date. I had to give up on that because when I exited the ssh session it would kill the server. I found this reddit post which made me conclude…
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…
How to Get Set Up For Audio Only Audiocasting with OBS
Of course I don’t use the word ‘podcast’ because its roots are associated with a large company that hasn’t done a lot of good for freedom in software (or hardware). So, you will read ‘audiocast’ and you’ll know what it means. The purpose of this post is to give you an open source and audio-only setup for recording, while also…
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…