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Running DiyHue on the Raspberry Pi

In this tutorial, you will learn how to set up DiyHue on the Raspberry Pi. This software emulates the Philips Hue Bridge. This means that you don't need the official Hub to connect your Phillips Hue Lights. You can also connect third-party lights and have them appear as Hue lights in the official app. Read More

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How to Format a Disk on Ubuntu

In this tutorial, we will be teaching you how to format a disk on Ubuntu using the desktop interface or terminal. On the desktop, we will focus on the Disks and GParted tools. On the other hand, we will be using Parted to format a disk on the terminal. Read More

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Setting up and Using MQTT on Home Assistant

In this tutorial, we will be showing you how to install and set up both the MQTT broker, and the MQTT integration in Home Assistant. MQTT is a lightweight messaging service used by many IOT devices. Your smart home server can act as the broker for these messages in a few short steps. Read More

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How to Generate an SSH Key on macOS

In this quick guide, you will be learning how to generate an SSH Key Pair on macOS. These keys are used to authenticate over an SSH connection. An SSH Key is a more secure alternative to using a plaintext password to authenticate. They are significantly more complicated for a hacker to crack. Read More

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How to Install an SFTP Server on Ubuntu

In this tutorial, you will be learning how to install and run an SFTP server on the Ubuntu operating system. We will show how you can set up users that you can only use to log in using SFTP and how they can have their own individual folders to upload. Read More

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How to Install EmuDeck on the Steam Deck

In this guide, you will be learning how to install EmuDeck on the Steam Deck. EmuDeck is an incredibly useful tool as it allows you to install all of the emulators you might need from one simple-to-use interface. It even pre-configures everything to run well on the Deck's hardware. Read More

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How to Install Adminer on the Raspberry Pi

In this tutorial, you will learn how to install Adminer on your Raspberry Pi. Adminer is a lightweight database management tool. It is considered to be the lightweight alternative to the popular phpMyAdmin. It achieves this thanks to being written as a single small PHP file. Read More

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Integrating Plex with Home Assistant

In this tutorial, you will learn how you can set up the Plex integration within Home Assistant. This integration allows automations based on your Plex server and any of its connected clients. For example, you can turn off lights when a movie is played. Read More

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How to Suspend Ubuntu

In this quick guide, we will be showing you how to suspend/sleep the Ubuntu operating system. By suspending the device is put into lower power mode. All of your programs are kept within RAM until you wake the device. Read More

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How to Update the Firmware on the Raspberry Pi

In this quick guide you will be learning how to update the firmware of the Raspberry Pi to the latest stable release. Additionally, we will also show you how to use the pre-release versions if that is what you desire. The firmware acts as a layer between the operating system and the hardware. Read More

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How to Flush the DNS Cache on macOS

In this tutorial, you will be learning how to flush the DNS Cache on macOS. Clearing this cache forces your system to re-fetch domain names. This is a useful task to perform when you are having issues with using a service or trying to access a particular website. Read More