podcast
All podcast applications I have tested were quite OK(ish) – but I have always struggled with organizing podcasts, creating playlists, etc. It has always been challenging. Therefore, for me, it is more convenient to download podcasts as MP3s and manage them myself (in VLC, for example). There are many ways to do that, but my favorite …
jellyfin configuration in lxc container
Jellyfin is extremely useful software providing home streaming system. I am using it since a while for streaming my old ripped DVD, which I love to watch again and again. Jellyfin is opensource, cross platform as a server and as a client, including client for android and iOS. It is …
Linux administration, few interesting tips
Change user id (uid) and group id (gid) for specific user
Various helpful Linux commands for file manipulations
Change file name for all files that contains “[any text]” substring to the same name without that.
Linux text manipulation
This article will grow over time Definition Command 1 Remove all comments including empty line (comments with ; and # like in samba.conf) egrep -v ‘^[[:space:]]*$|^ *#|^ *;’ /etc/samba/smb.conf 2 Find all file with some extension and remove it one by one; works for gnu xargs; 0 argument to properly …
yt-dlp – download your data from youtube
Hi, this short article only to mention that there is a wonderful application that exists for a years for the purpose to download YOUR or maybe some other movies from youtube. I don’t want to go in to legal aspect too much, what can be downloaded from youtube, what not …
Migrate WordPress site to another hosting service.
IntroductionThis article details the migration of WordPress site (exactly this site you are now on) from one service provider to Amazon Lightsail. There might be various reason to do that (mine is outlined below) but in general I hope to share the message that especially with WordPress, migration can be …
VMware Workstation and Fusion can be installed and use for free (even for the enterprise)
For a while now, the VMware Workstation (and Fusion for MacOS) can be used without any additional fee for Personal use. That was a great Broadcom news and nice gesture from that software vendor. Recently Broadcom announced that the software will be available for all, even the commercial sector. This …
Convert pdf file to jpeg – with imagemagic
Short article just to write down not-so frequently (for me) task: remove /opt/homebrew/bin from that command where using on other system than macOs Options: cheers
OneDrive on macOS, ugly hack
Introduction I have been using Google Drive for many years without any issues, but since the only constant in life is change, I recently found myself having to use OneDrive. I’m not very familiar with OneDrive, so the functions (and partial solutions) presented below might also be available in Microsoft …