Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Samba (SMB) share. Nice and easy.

Hello beautiful peoples! Today I will show You how to configure Ubuntu 22.04 LTS with Samba (SMB) share that’s read and write capable. Wait wait…

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Oooh I got no browser installed. Can I test the speed of my broadband in Linux? Yes you can.

Hello beautiful peoples! I am sure you’ve heard of speedtest.net. Its one of many pages that allow You to test the speed of Your broadband….

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Proxmox does not like Wayland. How to switch back to Xorg in Ubuntu?

Hello beautiful peoples! I have installed Ubuntu 22.04.3 in the Proxmox VM and after initial setup I tried changing resolution to 1920 x 1080 using…

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Why can’t I close mc / mcedit in Ubuntu with F10 keyboard shortcut? And how to fix it.

Hello beautiful peoples! I love mc / mcedit. At some stage of my life that was my favourite file manager and text editor and so…

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Residential Tenancies Board Rent Pressure Zone calculator broken? No… It was my Pi-hole that was messing me up…

Hello beautiful peoples! I am running Pi-hole with unbound as a recursive and authoritative DNS server AND adblocker. I was trying to check if the…

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Fixing ‘The operation couldn’t be completed. File name too long.’ error when saving files from iPhone’s ‘Files’ app to a Linux SMB share.

Hello beautiful peoples! I am running an SMB server on Debian 12 Bookworm. Many different devices (running different operating systems) read and write data to…

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Screen Refusing to Power Off. Windows 11 23H2 and NVIDIA GeForce Experience In-Game Overlay.

Hello beautiful peoples! I have my PCs set up so that after 60 seconds of inactivity the screen turns off and the computer goes to…

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Changing the Favicon Icon in a Self-Hosted Pleroma Instance on Debian Based Linux

Hello beautiful peoples! I have used this documentation to self-host Pleroma instance on one of my “Oracle Always Free” Ubuntu (thanks BlueB) machines: https://docs-develop.pleroma.social/backend/installation/debian_based_en/ Recently…

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