I have run my own mail server for years now.| neilzone.co.uk
Over the weekend, I set up the Lyrion Music Server, which existed originally to serve music to the Squeezebox hardware.| neilzone.co.uk
tl;dr A Linux installation on a USB stick, onto which I can copy my presentation slides, so that I can boot my laptop from that USB stick when I come to give a presentation, thereby leaving my actual drive (and thus my documents, email etc) encrypted.| neilzone.co.uk
I had a play around today with a GoPro on a small tripod, to take a series of photos of Lego I was moving around, to experiment with stop motion animation.| neilzone.co.uk
I use Jellyfin for media streaming, and also an arrangement based around mpd and ncmpcpp for my office.| neilzone.co.uk
This morning, I wondered “Could I cope with a terminal-only computer?| neilzone.co.uk
tl;dr: for a lot of things, yes, but not everything| neilzone.co.uk
I might be a bit late to the party here, but I stumbled across WinTile-Beyond recently, and it is rather useful.| neilzone.co.uk
Sometimes, less is more. For me, that’s especially the case when I want to avoid distractions.| neilzone.co.uk
I saw a useful toot in the fediverse: Who knew that it’s possible to boot straight into UEFI setup by just running “systemctl reboot –firmware-setup”?| neilzone.co.uk
A backup is only of use if it is tested, or something like that.| neilzone.co.uk
Here’s an annoying one. I went to upgrade my machine’s kernel, as I’ve done numerous times before, but got an error message that there was not enough space in /boot.| neilzone.co.uk
Yesterday, Mastodon said that it was adding support for a new Open Graph tag, to better showcase people who write blogposts and other articles, when links to those posts get tooted on the fediverse.| neilzone.co.uk
I’m going out on a limb a bit here. I love self-hosting my own systems.| neilzone.co.uk
I saw a tip on the fediverse which, annoyingly, I cannot now find.| neilzone.co.uk
For a while now, I have been unable to upload video files to Mastodon.| neilzone.co.uk