I want to be a superhero, and also a ninja! Why choose?
First off; This is totally a bookmark for myself. But I’d be amazed if it actually helps you, the reader!
I started using a static self-hosted NanoGallery2 for holiday photos, and the thumbnails look better when they are all the same width.
Execute this in the directory where your JPGs reside, all thumbnails have “thumb-” prefixed to their bigger picture counterpart.
❯ for i in *.JPG; do convert -auto-orient -thumbnail '200x>' $i thumb-$i; done;
While we’re on holiday we don’t have unlimited data. But the video autoplay on many sites is using a lot of data anyway.
Block autoplay using the following configuration;
Demo in this video
We switched to a Samsung Serif television last year, and it was not cheap.
But it feels cheap in the way it spawns ads every time we turn it on.
So let’s remove those ads by blocking the ads URL in our ASUS router, this way the television can not retrieve new ads anymore.
Important: make sure to choose Filter Table Type “Deny List”, which denies all entries in the list. If you would choose “Allow List” then you could only access the urls in the list and you cannot access any other site, effectively preventing you from accessing the internet from your home network.
Read more: ASUS Support FAQ: [Wireless Router] How to set up the URL Filter – Black/White List?(Firewall)
TLDR: Create a file called .nomedia in the directory of which pictures you don’t want to see in you Gallery app.
I have a lot of ebooks on my phone, it syncs the page status with my ereader so when my wife and me go shopping, I can just join the ‘dad section’ of whatever store we’re at and dive back in to my book(s)
But having so much e books means that they all appear when I scroll through my pictures.., especially since they are all located in separate folders per author and per book (yay for ordering!)
Unfortunately so much folders mean that each folder is individually shown in the gallery app when browsing pics. Adding a file called .nomedia means it hides all pics from the gallery from that folder (and it’s subfolders!)
Accept possible data loss and disable SYNC on the dataset in TrueNAS Scale.
Log in to TrueNAS Scale, navigate to Datasets, select the Dataset which is performing badly. Edit Dataset Details and disable SYNC.
Seriously; Think about if it is bad for you to lose data when power loss occurs. Because you will lose writes in that case.
My use case is reading big files remotely, thus I value performance over potential data loss.
Perhaps you’ve been playing with docker-compose, and you run into this error
docker bind address already in use
In my case I was editing my docker compose file, and removed a service before I ran docker-compose down. This meant the service was still running as docker-compose down did not bring down that specific service. In turn the port remained in use.
docker-compose down --remove-orphans
ZOMG, suddenly I remembered I indeed started those services, I iz dumbass.
appimages require fuse to run
That is the fault I got when I tried running an appimage.
sudo apt install libfuse2t64
Make sure to add exec to your appimage
chmod a+x yourfile.appimage
Often I see people waiting while their command is executing, impatiently tapping their desk until a file copy or command has finished.
They are often amazed when I show them that the Linux command line has a way of sending pending commands to the background, so you can continue on another task.
Below is a gif screencast which shows:
Continue reading “Linux command line task management with jobs, BG, FG and nohup – multitasking”
For a while I’ve been postponing enabling Virtualization on my new microserver. But this weekend my wife was visiting her parents and I already watched all the series I wanted to, so no more procrastination!
Yet when I started, my HP Proliant Microserver showed this warning during the installation of VMWare ESXi VSphere:
<HARDWARE_VIRTUALIZATION WARNING: Hardware Virtualization is not a feature of the CPU, or is not enabled in the BIOS>
I ignored it, hoping for the best, but when I tried to power on a VM a similar message popped up:
Failed – This host supports Intel VT-x, but Intel VT-x is restricted. Intel VT-x might be restricted because ‘trusted execution’ has been enabled in the BIOS/firmware settings or because the host has not been power-cycled since changing this setting.
Follow these steps:
Now you should know I just enabled and disabled these option based on reddit and Stackoverflow posts, and since nothing production like is running on this node I’m fine if I might have missed some steps or perhaps enabled too much. Basically I’m saying; You are responsible for your own server 🙂 Check with a professional if your node is running more important tasks.
Yet if I made a booboo somewhere, I would appreciate if you would please let me know and I’ll update the post accordingly.
My colleague and me wanted to share a 50MB zip file via Teams. Which looked fine, but MS Teams application would not do anything when I tried to download it.
I tried several things, opening the same location in Sharepoint, moving it to OneDrive, etc. but in the end the following worked for me:
I’m not sure why Teams app would not download, but atleast this worked for me.
Happy “Not trying to use USB sticks ever again” day to you all!