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Easy Way to Pull New Docker Images

Keeping your Docker images up to date isn’t quite as easy as using your Linux operating system package manager, but this one command makes it easy to check all your running instances for new images. It will pull a list…

Disabling Ubuntu Telemetry Services

Ubuntu started to enable telemetry in recent versions on an opt out basis, so if you don’t want to send data to Ubuntu here is a script from Github. Instead of running the script you can manually add the domains…

Google Notes Replacement with Zim Wiki and Syncthing

Continuing on with replacing Google products and getting away from their tracking and data collection, I was looking for a notes replacement. There are products like Joplin and Standard Notes where you can use their cloud service or self host…

Android Privacy Keyboard – AnySoftKeyboard

I’ve tolerated Google for some of their free services as they do give you control over your data with the option to delete it, opt out, or have it self delete after 90 days. And some of their services like…

Flatpak is the Future of Linux Application Management?

After playing around with Snap, I thought I’d take a look at Flatpak with the intention or writing up how to install and use it. These Linux version agnostic application systems with containerization and sandboxing sound good, but are they…

Overclocking the Raspberry Pi’s

The Raspberry Pi’s can easily be overclocked but this all depends on your cooling solution. If you have a good heatsink, preferably with a fan or two, you can turn up the Pi and improve performance and still keep the…

BTOP System Monitor Installation using Snap

On several of my Linux operating systems I found that Btop++ wasn’t in the repositories, but was available via Snap package. Consequently, I only recently started using Snap after Ubuntu only included Firefox via Snap package. Snap is an interesting…

Install the Yacy Search Engine with Docker

Yacy is a promising distributed search engine project. You can run Yacy as a P2P, peer to peer, search engine, or as your very own search engine with web crawler, or as an intranet, local search engine. However, this is…