Freedom and Privacy, Life Skills, Nymea, Tutorial, Ubuntu, Ubuntu Touch

My Journey to Nymea (land)

Edit: Feb 6, 2023 – Nymea has recently launched version 1.6 which appears to have added / adjusted at least some of my ‘positive criticism’ comments below so some may no longer be relevant. Further, be advised always to go to the official nymea.io documentation for the latest and greatest instructions. My stuff is just to go alongside with it.…

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Freedom and Privacy, Mesh Networks, Technology, Tutorial

Converting a Zsun Wifi Card Reader into a Wifi Range Extender

This post is a follow-up post to my original where I successfully flashed OpenWRT onto these Zsun devices. Be sure to see that post first if you haven’t already flashed OpenWRT onto the device. Note that this tutorial should also work for any device upon which you can put OpenWRT (ie any compatible old router you have kicking around). With…

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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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