Ram's Technology Notes
This is the set of steps you need to take to enable complex touchpad gestures in Manjaro (KDE, but should work for other desktop environments as well). By default, single and double finger gestures should work and are configurable in the default touchpad configuration settings. However, three finger and other gestures are not available by…
So you want to host your own web site instead of taking the easy route out with Medium, WordPress and other providers for simple blogs like these – there are a few things you need to set up. This brief guide will help you understand the different pieces to set up and providers you can…
I had set up keeweb self-hosting and also had cloudflare enabled on the domain that was doing the self-hosting. Everything was working fine until a few days ago when the self-hosted domain simply showed an empty page. Devtools console revealed that the issue was a problem with content security policy in keeweb (does not allow…
After the recent upgrade of my home server to Ubuntu 20.04, Sonos was again having trouble accessing the SMB shared folder for my music library. Turns out that the newer version of Samba in Ubuntu 20.04 turns off SMBv1 by default. Simply adding server min protocol = NT1 to /etc/samba/smb.conf and systemctl restart smbd fixed…
I finally upgraded my headless home server that was running Ubuntu 18.04 to 20.04 – I only run long-term support releases (LTS) builds as this is my main home server with functionality that we all depend on for managing our data and household digital storage. I used do-release-upgrade to do the upgrade. Overall, it was…
I ran a bunch of updates on my Manjaro Linux laptop and noticed that printing from the laptop stopped working – this is the same setup where I was happy with how easy the setup was to print wirelessly to my MP620. The issue turns out to be the update doesn’t automatically update CUPS configuration…
I have been running Manjaro Linux on my main home laptop for a change for the last 9 months. Overall, experience has been excellent with almost all the hardware working very well, battery life being very good, wake from sleep being near instantaneous and the laptop being very functional for my workload. I had however…
I have been trying unsuccessfully to setup automatic wireless sync of photos and videos from our iPhones to my home server running Ubuntu. After failures with Plex camera roll upload which does not seem to work consistently, I have finally found a good alternative. The method is inefficient but has been reliable for the last…
As part of my home network setup, I have an APC UPS (XS 1500 LCD if you’re curious). I have the UPS monitoring cable hooked up to my Ubuntu home server and run apcupsd to monitor and control the UPS behavior. After I upgraded to Ubuntu 18.04, I didn’t pay attention to the UPS setup…
I recently setup Pi-Hole on my Home Server to block ads at the DNS level and across devices instead of trying to set it up for each device individually. In my setup the Pi-Hole server acts as the DNS server for my network but I kept my AmplifiHD router as the DHCP server. Overall, the…