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I finally setup my Ubuntu server quite well along with wifi drivers. Next up, I had to install Nextcloud, because I wanted a cloud storage that could backup and sync photos, videos and other stuff from several devices at my home. Thus I looked up a tutorial on it and found one by Jay, which was extremely easy to follow and helped me setup my Nextcloud instance from scratch. The steps to setup Nextcloud You should be using a normal user account, and should not be executing the commands as ‘root’. In case you are ‘root’, simply execute the following: ...

I had stopped using whatsapp because I didn’t want to have it’s proprietary app on my de-googled device. The Issue But you see, this application is used by most of my academic professors and other colleages, so I had to somehow use it (without the app on my phone, of course). So I thought of running it through some android emulator, but didn’t want to natively run it on my linux machine. [No waydroid as I run X11] ...

This guide will explain how to sign a Custom ROM build (typically unofficial builds, as most official ROMs are now shipping their own private keys). I will use the Lineage wiki guide, but simplify it in my own words at places where I feel this guide did not give more practical information to a new comer like me. The steps to generate the keys are as follows: NOTE: You only need to run this once. If you ever rerun these, you’ll need to migrate between builds. ...

I was wanting to learn on how to setup my servers and host stuff on them, but to host a server online, one needs to spend some amount of money on them, which i really didn’t want to. But then i remembered that i have one old dusty home computer that had been lying in my home since several years, while not really being used anymore. So i decided to use this opportunity to reuse the same computer for my server tasks and in this way, i will be saving up on those server costs that i would have to pay [electricity is cheap here]. ...

Today, I wanted to send a file from my desktop to my android device. I thought of using rsync for this purpose, which is a tool that I use frequently to sync files between my desktop and my laptop. I thought of giving it a try and came across this great article that explained just this. NOTE: This guide requires both the computer and the Android device to be on the same wifi network. ...