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, Mesh Networks, Technology, Tutorial, Ubuntu

How to Flash OpenWRT onto a Zsun Card

Background EDIT JAN 7, 2019Warning! Before beginning this tutorial, note that I have **fried** two Zsun devices nearly immediately after doing these steps. My theory appears to be correct that as soon as you flash to OpenWRT the default power output is way, way too high and so it starts heating up and frying it. Within about 15 minutes of…

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Freedom and Privacy, Technology, Tutorial, Ubuntu, Ubuntu Touch

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,…

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Technology, Tutorial, Ubuntu

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…

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