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Obsidian Self-Hosting with CouchDB: Set Up Free Sync

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Obsidian is a powerful note-taking app, perfect as a personal knowledge management system. This article will show you how to self-host Obsidian and set up seamless synchronization between all your devices. While the “Obsidian Sync” feature is a paid premium feature (around $4 per month), this guide shows you how to achieve similar functionality for free through self-hosting. While this requires a bit more technical know-how, it gives you full …

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Hetzner S3 Object Storage

Mount Hetzner Object Storage as a local file system (and comparison with Amazon S3)

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Introduction Integrating cloud object storage as a local file system can significantly simplify workflows and save local disk space. In this article, we will show you step by step how to use Hetzner Object Storage. We will follow Hetzner’s official tutorial on object storage file systems and also compare Hetzner Object Storage with Amazon S3 to highlight advantages and disadvantages. Hetzner Object Storage vs. Amazon S3 – A Brief Comparison …

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Dnsmasq as DNS and DHCP server

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Dnsmasq is a simple DNS and DHCP server for small networks. It resolves the names from the local network according to the /etc/hosts file. Unknown name queries are forwarded and stored in the cache. The DHCP subsystem supports DHCPv4, DHCPv6, BOOTP (Bootstrap Protocol), and PXE. Preparation for Dnsmasq We switch to the „root“ user: sudo -i First, we update the package sources, the operating system, in this case, an Ubuntu 20.04LTS: apt update && apt upgrade -y && …

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The 10 most important commands in the VIM text editor for beginners

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In this blog article, our focus is on the most important commands for beginners to work effectively with the VIM editor. The VIM or “vi” is a super effective tool for working in the Linux terminal and is almost a must to handle. 0. ESC key The ESC key is super important and lets you switch from “insert mode” to command mode. Always make sure that when you want to …

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