Tech geek. Life geek.
Today I upgraded my Mastodon server from v4.2.3 to v4.2.4. When I signed in to my account, and went to the Administration, Dashboard, I saw the update notification. So I know I need to update my Mastodon Instance for safe....
Umami is a simple, fast, privacy-focused, open-source analytics solution. It is a cool tool. I saw someone install Umami from source code or docker. I am a lazy man. So I just signed up and started to use the cloud...
It is January 2024. This month, I have a challenge of Blogging. It is to publish one post per day. It’s very hard for me. I have never tried it before. I will focus on blogging only. I will not...
This week, I am doing domain names winter clean. I have a lot of domain names that need to be maintained. How many domain registrars do I use? About twenty years ago, I registered my first Domain name at 1and1....
Yes, a few days ago, I started to use Cloudflare R2 for my Mastodon media storage. There are three steps. 1) Download all the media files from Backblaze B2 2) Upload the files of step 1 to Cloudflare R2 3)...
I have been using Backblaze B2 Storage for fifteen days. In the beginning, the data was not stable. I changed the settings multiple times. The Backblaze backend reporting is kind of delayed or 48 hours round. Today, I will recheck...
Set up Backblaze B2 storage with existing Mastodon. Here is for my record, not as a guide or reference. If you follow it on your Mastodon instance, take a risk. I use the Backblaze B2 storage after a few days...
I have a Awow AK34 mini PC. It is used as a router for a few years. It has a problem. It may lost respons after a few month, or every month. All the devices no matter wired or wireless...
I have a MediaWiki installation in my Home Lab. It is for my own internal purpose. There are many sensitive information. So there is no way to access it from the Internet. The MediaWiki installation was 1.39.2. To upgrade the...
It is a question. And I have the answer. I used an Ammeter to measure the power consumption of the 4-bay NAS system. The NAS is built based on the U-NAS hardware. HARDWARE INFORMATION CPU Model: Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU J3160 @...
Recently I saw a tweet talking about the speed test tools powered by Cloudflare. It is so cool. The speed test checks the Internet Speed and every small segment. For example, my Internet is 100MB download /10MB upload with CIK...
I saw the news of the release of Proxmox VE 8. It is a big version upgrade and a lot of changes to the system. I have the PVE running in my HomeLab. Today is a great day, Sunday, a...
Recently, I did some trial use on the following VPS. Hetzner Google Cloud Contabo Vultr Oracle Cloud Oracle Cloud https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vQLu9_T0iljC3jhWmRIgOFA7rdiLM3s-FcKl-EMXgL_7Fh6htcqZRqcClwFBsBKmBQThYmhmU6zshjP/pubhtml?gid=0&single=true
I FOUND THIS POST when I go through the Draft post in the backend of my blog. It was drafted last year when I moved some emails to the IONOS Email system. It is still helpful for the “Email Basic”...
Early last December, php8.2.0 was released. I did not install it at the first available. I like to wait for the first wave of bugs to be fixed. Now it is time to upgrade my Web Server’s php engine. Before...