Home Automation
In this article I will describe how to get the most bang for of your buck. I won't lie and tell you home automation is a cheap hobby. I spent quite a bunch of money before finally getting it right. The hardware The trick to saving money is
Linux
Ever had to put up some ad on Craigslist or Ebay only to be told your photo filesize is too large? Life is too short to manually resize and compress multiple files to the appropriate specs. Also you might want to remove your metadata as well before uploading. ImageMagick has you covered!
Linux
If like me you're used to setting up your own hosting environment on a Debian derived distro than you'll probably be surprised to know that setting up the same stack on Arch is just a tad different than what you're used to. I've put together this practical guide to get you up and running quickly.
Privacy
Privacy and encryption go together like peanut butter and jelly. At the very heart of most encryption strategies is a set of keys and a key exchange. Most of you have probably already heard of PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) and are confused about GPG. Generate a strong 4096 bit key
Security
If your current strategy is either using the same password everywhere or plain writing it down a Password Manager can drastically improve your online security. When it comes to tools there's a lot of choice to be had. I will go over the different options and their benefits and drawbacks.
Privacy
Why should you care about your privacy when you have nothing to hide? Well, the thing is.. everyone has something to hide at some point in their lives. It can be something incredibly insignificant but consider this; everything you do online is being recorded and archived.
Privacy
Today we'll show you just how to encrypt all your home traffic therefore making sure you're ISP can't easily track your every move. First off, there multiple ways to encrypt your traffic all with varying levels of anonimity and performance penalty. Usually the trade-off
Linux
Installation: sudo pacman -S docker docker-compose Add yourself to the docker group: sudo gpasswd -a <USER> docker WARNING: Every user you add to the docker group is root equivalent. NOTE: It takes a reboot for this change to take effect. Enable and start deamon sudo systemctl enable --now
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Blogging
Basic setup curl -L https://ghost.org/zip/ghost-latest.zip -o ghost.zip unzip -uo ghost.zip -d ghost cd ghost && npm install --production Running on production Install PM2 server sudo npm install pm2 -g Configure the app In your ghost folder create a config.json file with
Android
There are several ways to run Android without Google Apps. Probably the easiest way is to simply don't install any GAPPS package at all and see if that is something you can live with within your day to day use-case. Since for most users this is not the
Minidocs
Installing a package sudo pacman -S <package> Searching for a package sudo pacman -Ss <description/name> Removing packages To remove a single package, leaving all of its dependencies installed: sudo pacman -R <package> To remove a package and its dependencies which are not required
Linux
Most modern distributions still ship with Bash as the default shell. While there is absolutely nothing wrong with Bash in the slightest there is another popular kid on the block called ZSH. ZSH can do most if not all the things Bash can do but with a ton of extra