I wrote a short post about tools I like for Windows a while ago. Well, I recently got a Mac for work, and installed some tools to make MacOS work better for me. Whether you're coming from Windows or Linux, or have always used MacOS, I hope you&
There are a few blog posts out there about this sort of thing, but I figured I'd add mine to the pile. I already had a Raspberry Pi 4 with 2gb ram running a couple self-hosted things, but it was mostly sitting idle, so I decided to put
As a student, I frequently have assigned reading. I've found that I retain what I'm reading a lot better when I listen to it, or ideally, read and listen at the same time. Fortunately, with the optical character recognition and text to speech, that's
Someone on the fediverse helped me find the solution to this after I complained about the issue in a panic. One day, I was minding my own business puttering around on my computer, when the screen goes black. Weird. I go to turn in on. Nothing. Weirder. I plug it
The goal behind this is to write down things that I learned. That could be in-the-weeds troubleshooting of computer problems I'm having, recommendations for cool software, or answers to tech questions I'm frequently asked. Basically, I want to make things that were hard for me to
Some things I'd want if I ever went back to daily-driving Windows: * WSL (of course) - Run linux commands and applications on Windows * Everything - Awesome file search * A drop-down terminal. Maybe: https://github.com/flyingpie/windows-terminal-quake - Haven't used it, but something like this * Eartrumpet
glances
glances htop, but better watch Run a command at regular intervals and display the latest result on screen sensors Is my computer overheating? smbios-thermal-ctl Control the thermals of your device to prioritize noise vs performance, at least on my Dell laptop vdirsyncer Handy calendar sync tool
In no particular order, here's some stuff I run on my server. Hopefully you find something useful: * jforseth.com (simple HTML site) * blog.jforseth.com (this site, Ghost) * vettertees.com (Wordpress) * cattledb.jforseth.com * Matomo * Crafty Controller * Pi-Hole * Dockge * Portainer * Cockpit * Immich * Photoprism * Firefly III * Navidrome * Nextcloud * NTFY
linux
For those of you using Linux, here's a tool worth adding to your belt: GitHub - lakinduakash/linux-wifi-hotspot: Feature-rich wifi hotspot creator for Linux which provides both GUI and command-line interface. It is also able to create a hotspot using the same wifi card which is connected to
btrfs
I do not understand BTRFS. Here are some things I have learned: sudo btrfs balance start / is a bad idea. You probably want something like: sudo btrfs balance start -musage=50 -dusage=50 / People say don't believe `df` or other free-space tools. They're right, but if
Pi-Hole
I recently set up a Pi-Hole in a Docker container, and was running into an issue where my top client was 172.24.0.1. My only client really. So, naturally, I searched online and found that people were suggesting adding network: host in my compose file instead of mapping