SCALING DOWN TO SCALE UP: THE ENERGY-EFFICIENT APPROACH USING LE POTATO SBC AS A RASPBERRY PI ALTERNATIVE
In this post, I share my journey of integrating the Le Potato Single Board Computer into my setup, after giving up on Raspberry Pis I could not find in stock or at a decent price. Le Potato turned out to be a great single-workload-host.
EFFICIENTLY ARCHIVING SCALEWAY BLOCK VOLUME SNAPSHOTS TO OBJECT STORAGE VIA THE CLI
Efficiently take instance block volume snapshots and archive them to object storage from the CLI, on the Scaleway platform.
TUNING ZRAM IN FEDORA FOR BETTER PERFORMANCE AND GET RID OF OOM CRASHES
Tweak Fedora’s SWAP on zram feature to increase the available RAM on your laptop or workstation.
SETTING UP NEXTCLOUD FULLTEXT SEARCH WITH ELASTICSEARCH
In this post, we will be setting up Fulltext Search on Nextcloud using nextcloud-aio container and Elasticsearch. For the purpose of this guide, we will be avoiding the use of the container mentioned in the official Nextcloud documentation as it executes processes as root, which is not ideal for many circumstances.
ENCODING CONTACT INFORMATION INTO A QR CODE
Create advertisement-free QR codes that embed your contact information in the vCard format.
OPTIMIZE BATTERY HEALTH ON DELL LINUX LAPTOPS AND FEDORA 38
Run the obsolete Dell program command-configure on Fedora 38 to control battery charge threshold from the OS.
SETTING UP AN IGNORE LIST FOR UMAMI WEB ANALYTICS
Set up an ignore list with Umami and filter out your own IP from your website visitors count - assuming a Docker Compose deployment.
CUSTOMIZE EMAIL SUBJECT PREFIX IN EVOLUTION EMAIL CLIENT
Customize email subject prefixes such as ‘RE:’ or ‘AW:’ in the Gnome email client Evolution so that they work accross languages.
GOING PAPERLESS WITH A SIMPLE YET POWERFUL WORKFLOW ON LINUX
Having an efficient paperless workflow can save you space, make documents easily searchable, and prevent the loss of important information. In this post, I’ll explain a straightforward way to digitize paper documents on Linux using free and open source tools.
REPLACING DDCLIENT WITH INADYN: RESTORING DYNAMIC DNS UPDATES RELIABILITY
Over the past 18 months, I’ve encountered a growing number of bugs with ddclient. But inadyn solved all that and I’m not looking back!