It can be tempting to keep Home Assistant OS (HAOS) completely isolated on your local network, especially if you want to avoid fiddling ...
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pgAdmin3 (III) with support for PostgreSQL 10,11,12,13
pgAdmin is a free software used for PostgreSQL database management. As you may know, starting with pgAdmin 4, which is a WebApp, the f...
Ubuntu, how to connect to IPsec/IKEv2 VPNs via NetworkManager
VPN: Virtual Private Network Strongswan: IPsec-based VPN IKEv2: VPN encryption protocol MS-CHAPv2 (MSCHAPv2): authentication protoco...
1 F1-micro google VM, your Linux server, production-ready playground
Using Google Cloud free/always free products it has to offer we can create a small yet powerful free virtual machine (a Google Cloud Com...
Restic & incron/inotify, continuous backup on folder content change
Restic is a cross platform “Fast, secure, efficient backup program, Free Software (not just Open Source)”, as the developers says and I...
How secure is today's internet browsing and browsers
During last years, starting with HTTPS Everywhere initiative by Google, big internet players have invested in securing the internet brow...
How to copy a bootable large disk to a smaller disk
In Linux, cloning a disk (USB/SSD/HDD) is really simple, using dd utility we can make identical copies of one disk to another disk. Basi...
Pop!_OS & macOS, dual boot, same HDD, UEFI Only
Using the Ubuntu based distros (Pop!_OS in my case) give us some sort of magic powers, otherwise hard or even impossible to be obtained ...
Pop! _OS 19.04 released, upgrade and expectations
A (very) short history Pop!_OS 19.04 is the latest release of a great Linux distribution provided by System76. I'm using it on my ...
Watch Netflix on Raspberry Pi 2, 3 using Kodi and LibreELEC
Kodi is a well-known media center that can be deployed on various hardware, including ARM devices. For Raspberry Pi (2), Kodi is deliver...
Activate Windows 10 using Windows 7,8,8.1 keys, after July 2016 free offer, is it legal?
Short answer: NO (a lowercase NO and otherwise without clear explanations from @MicrosoftHelps) Long answer If you are reading this arti...
Pop!_OS and Windows 10, same HDD, dual boot, UEFI only
This article is about installing Windows 10 on the same hard disk where Pop!_OS/Ubuntu resides, then boot any of the OSs, without using ...
Gnome Calendar and outlook.com, a two way sync integration
Using outlook.com calendar with Gnome Shell (Gnome 3) was an almost impossible task for Linux users and that's due to EAS (Exchange ...
A polished Thunderbird theme for modern Ubuntu/Linux DEs
The Thunderbird email client interface may look fine on a Windows 10 PC, but when talking about Ubuntu, Gnome 3 based distros, things may be...
Ubuntu, data encryption and backup, the right way
This article is about how to backup an Ubuntu based workstation, if this is what you are looking for, keep reading. The backup procedure wo...