Around April 2023, I decided to look for a new Linux Desktop Environment for my personal void linux. So I tried these distros:
photoprism is a web based photo management application.
From its website:
PhotoPrism® is an AI-Powered Photos App for the Decentralized Web. It makes use of the latest technologies to tag and find pictures automatically without getting in your way. You can run it at home, on a private server, or …
Telegram is a messenger designed to overcome the limitations of other messengers like WhatsApp or similar ones. It is different and better than other messengers on more than one level. A few of the important features that make it stand out among other messengers are:
So we bough a Philips 50PFK6540. This is a 50" TV with Ambi Ligh and Android TV.
One of the things I wanted to do from the very start was to load my own APKs. This was not possible until a recent (2016) update that enabled the "Install from Unknown …
So I finally moved my WordPress web sites to OpenShift.
OpenShift is a cloud based Platform-as-a-Service offering from RedHat. And while there is a learning curve I would say that so far it works great.
My implementation is a fully cloud based solution. Makes use of the following services:
So I finally tried my hand at 3D printing. Obviously I did not buy at 3D printer. These are either quite expensive or you need to assemble them yourself, which I don't think is in my capacity level.
To get started, you first need a 3D model to print. There …
If you want to move to the cloud and like to code like me, this is kinda of a basic necessity.
This applies in particular to Chromebook users.
This is my working notes on doing off-site backups to the cloud. Still trying to figure out where to keep Offsite backups.
These are the candidates:
| Site | Free Quota | 100GB/Yr | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| AltDrive | 30 day | USD 45 | Unlimited, Linux binary |
| iDrive | 5GB | USD 6 | Starts at 1TB, Linux binary, API … |
A quick and dirty mini-howto to setup a proxy on Ubuntu. This is meant mostly for doing quick setup of a proxy on a cloud environment.
sudo apt-get install squid/etc/squid adding …