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The user environment on my Ubuntu laptop kept crashing, and I couldn't figure out why or find a solution.

The local AI dream can be satisfied with GPUs other than expensive NVIDIA hardware.

Many applications of interest to Homelabbers use AI systems to add value.

Claude confidently told me my phone's software (LineageOS for Pixel 6a) was fundamentally broken.

In a homelab, we self-host Internet services on machines installed in our home.

Caddy is a popular, enterprise-ready web server, that can be easily use as a reverse proxy for a homelab.

Self-hosting is to host the equivalent of the big-tech Internet services, using open source software, on your own hardware.

A critical step to create a "homelab" is assigning a domain name to your home network connection.

NextCloud is open source software implementing the equivalent to Google Drive, Dropbox, and the like.

It's recommended to work on bugs or features in a separate Git branch from the main branch.

WiFi Calling is an excellent tool when traveling outside your home country.

Docker supports creating images/containers for (almost) every CPU architecture.

Client Credential Flow is a widely used best practice to authorize software to access APIs of other services.

Google says it is worth $1000 for you to use Google Analytics, the free service for tracking website traffic, on your website.

Drupal 7 is an old release, which due to go end-of-life in January 2025, and which many of us are still using in production.

Docker images contain instructions for building a filesystem one layer at a time.

A key to successful travel abroad is maintaining phone numbers in your home country.

The contacts list on your smartphone is routinely accessed by many applications.

While we can synchronize contacts data through a cloud service, we have more control over our data by learning how to import and export the contacts data.

Many Americans love to travel, and some hope to live full time traveling outside the USA.

Smart phones conveniently hold, in the Contacts app, the personal information that used to be a paper phone and address book.

Everyone needs a bank account and phone number for modern life.

SSH is a multifaceted tool that can be used for more than terminal sessions to a remote server.

Smart phones conveniently hold what used to be a paper phone and address book.

Amazon's AWS S3 (Simple Storage Service) offers bulk data storage on "the cloud".

NextCloud, as an open source alternative to Google Drive, offers file storage on personally-owned cloud infrastructure.

Managing Docker infrastructure solely with command-line tools is powerful but full of geeky details which can be simplified with a GUI.

Multipass is an excellent tool for running Ubuntu on macOS or Windows laptops.

Multipass is an excellent tool for running Ubuntu on Linux, macOS or Windows laptops.

Docker is a system for deploying containerized software on laptops, single board computers, server farms, or massive compute systems.

OpenAPI lets one describe web API methods and data types in a language-neutral format.

The task of generating a sequence of integers, such as identifiers for documents in a MongoDB collection, is conceptually.

The Linux ecosystem includes filesystem support for disks from many operating sytems.

South Dakota offers folks who are full time travelers and do not have a fixed residence, to get a drivers license or ID card.

Podman, the Docker alternative for running Docker containers, runs great on MacOS.

Recently the teams for a couple front-end libraries abandoned using TypeScript and returned to vanilla JavaScript.

The Master of course snarfed up everything he could carry from Gallifrey and in his eternal quest against The Doctor, he used the "forced regeneration machine".

Surprise, David Tennant is the 14th Doctor, and the schedule says no new episodes until November 2023.

A huge part of modern Internet security is SSL/TLS, which encrypts data and authenticates connections.

Getting started with Mosquitto is deceptively easy.

Having multiple computers is great except for dealing with multiple keyboards and mice.

Connecting to digital cameras via USB lets you easily browse the images or videos like any other disc.

While YouTube is fighting a real problem of misinformation regarding Russia's war on Ukraine, some YouTubers who report on the war have been demonetized.

Signing up with a mail forwarding or virtual mailbox service requires filling out USPS form 1583.

New in Node.js v18.8.0 is a test framework highly remniscient of Mocha.

Protocol Buffers is a Google-developed toolchain for binary encoding of data and objects that works between programming languages.

Following up on earlier Bun testing, as of v0.1.8, it is improving rapidly, but is still missing important functionality.

The error Unexpected Reserved Word usually means you're using await in a non-async function.

The Raspberry Pi can power devices attached to the GPIO pins, or to the USB bus.