Friends make fun of me for wearing a fanny pack. Aside from their incredible aesthetic appeal, the article of clothing is extremely efficient for carrying things especially when I can’t fit them in my pants. I wanted to create this article to discuss their history and why they’re so amazing at what they do. Waist …
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The purpose of this article is to get you started with a SciKit image processing tool by showing you how easy it is to install it. If you didn’t already know, “SciKits (short for SciPy Toolkits), are add-on packages for SciPy”. Each is a powerful scientific Python tool that can be installed with the Python …
I asked ChatGPT if it could quickly write me something so I can reference for Markdown styles to implement. The official guide is available here: def greet(name):print(“Hello, ” + name + “!”) I haven’t quite figured out how to display this in Markdown officially on this blog but once I do, I’ll be sure to …
The purpose of this article is to help you quickly install and configure the motion package on a Raspberry Pi (3 or 4). This should also theoretically work for several Linux flavors such as Ubuntu, Mint, Elementary, etc. Per their website, “Motion is a highly configurable program that monitors video signals from many types of …
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I don’t know about you, but I don’t want a hooded cyberpunk hacker hacking into my Linux boxes. Luckily, there’s at least one layer we can add to make that much less likely happen. Per a pretty good description and more advanced details surrounding the tool, UFW provides a much more user-friendly framework for managing …
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This is my father’s recipe. It’s super simple and quick. Ingredients: Instructions: That’s literally it. Enjoy.
These instructions teach you how to open ports on a Ubiquiti UniFi® Security Gateway (USG) Prerequisites are that you have the following equipment set up: Here’s some Amazon affiliate links to the devices if you need them Steps: A more comprehensive guide is available here: https://help.ui.com/hc/en-us/articles/235723207-UniFi-USG-UDM-Port-Forwarding-Configuration-and-Troubleshooting
This is for a non-technical friend named Jerry. First, install Windows 10. I’ll wait. Once you’ve installed Windows 10 and have it perfectly set up, go to where you want to create a folder. In that folder, right click New > Folder Alternatively, hit CTRL+SHIFT+N A new Folder will be created. Feel free to name …
If you’re like me, you use apt install or brew install on your Linux and macOS computers. Windows has for years allowed a ‘quick’ way to install programs using services like Ninite. While Ninite is great, you’re just installing the applications in bulk. Microsoft Store is also available built into the operating system but it …
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Updating a Ruby file will fix this. This one took me a bit to find. I’m getting this error whether I run brew upgrade, brew install –caske wine-stable or brew uninstall –cask wine-stable. I think the issue is that x11 is now deprecated and if you installed this version of wine, you can’t uninstall it until you …
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