Disclaimer: As always, my blogs are not supposed to be a well-written piece of technical literature but instead a better-than-crap version of a messy notepad. I hope it’s clear enough to help someone other than myself but I always check them to make sure at least I can understand it, ha. It seems that there is a nice blog written…
Fixing My Dead Nextcloudpi box in three simple steps
My nextcloudpi box was kicking back errors and wouldn’t start. It was in a degraded state. I then learned about systemctl –failed command which showed something wrong with certbot. Thankfully I already knew that was related to LetsEncrypt. I realized that it was trying to renew two domains that weren’t there and were expired and would be unable to renew…
Advanced PDF Printing on Ubuntu
I travelled down a road that failed, but I learned some cool things about printing to PDF on Ubuntu that I think are worth logging and sharing for others. 1. Out-of-the-Box PDF Printing (in case you didn’t know) In case you are new to ubuntu and didn’t know it, basic PDF printing is already installed and working perfectly. All you…
RECOVERING FILES USING SCALPEL AND UBUNTU
“Ooops. I deleted my photos” I used foremost in this blog to try to recover deleted mp4 video files (for my sister) using ubuntu and the software called Foremost, but it wouldn’t find the video files. It found a bunch of photos but not her supposed videos. Then, I thought maybe the tool wasn’t capable so I tried to figure…
RECOVERING DATA FROM YOUR ANDROID DEVICE USING FOREMOST AND UBUNTU
“Ooops. I deleted my photos” Well, I thought this would be a bit easier than it was but such is life – HARD…May this tutorial save many or all of you lots of time. Probably you can do all this with Kali, Debian, or other distributions that have the same commands, but I’m ubuntu so ubuntu it will be. My…
Log notes from my MTP android ubuntu learning day
Before you read this. Big disclaimer. This post is written in super crappy style and is nothing more than my personal notes as I tried to figure out MTP. The only reason I’m even putting this post online is because a few of the things I learned below seem like they will be relevant for future ubuntu touch / android…
GOOD BUSINESS COMMUNICATIONS IN OUR FRACTURED AGE
Proper communication is paramount. In the same way that handing someone a cheap, faded, crappy business card paints the wrong picture about your company and brand, a poorly communciated message does the same about yourself as a person. We live in a time when it often feels there are more communication options than people with whom we communicate. Further, those…
How to set up Gitlab with Ubuntu Touch 2FA Manager App
I had been using Ubuntu Touch Authenticator app, but I wanted to try out the 2FA Manager app to see how that worked for me. The only problem was that I had never reset my 2FA stuff that I originally set up so this was my first time switching devices. It was easy, but it was also not documented. I…
Setting Up Prestashop on Digital Ocean Ubuntu Server
The background to this post is that I had a sudden need to ‘figure out shopping carts’. I understood from times past it probably isn’t wise to have a shopping cart that intends to scale on a shared cpanel host, even though it’s pretty dead easy to set that up. I decided this was the day I had to learn…
Flashing Ubuntu Touch to your Pinephone’s EMMC memory
You might have already read my first round of ‘flashing 101’ when I successfully flashed Ubuntu Touch to and SD card making it possible to boot the Pinephone that way with Ubuntu Touch. That first blog is a bit more messy because I was learning so in fact, this post here might also help you with flashing to an SD…