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These shownotes have been removed as RPort is no longer Open Source. Sadly - RPort was purchased in 2023 by RealVNC. RealVNC reportely (not confirmed by me) said they would keep RPort Open Source when they were purchasing the company / solution, but apparentl...

Why? Working remote has been a huge change for a lot of us.  Making these videos for the last two and a half years has been a huge learning experience for me, especially when it comes to our mics and background noise. When we all started working remote, me...

Vaultwarden is a compatible, open source, back end for Bitwarden written in Rust.  It is extremely light on resource requirements, and will work with any of the Bitwarden clients in your browsers and mobile devices. Why Run My Own Password Manager There ar...

I'm always trying to encourage my nieces and nephews to get into programming.  I think Apple really hit the nail on the head with their Swift Playground app that teaches kids how the basics of development works, and gives them some really great logic pussles...

WikiJS is a tremendously powerful, extremely full-featured open source, self hostable Wiki system.  It has a modern user interface, and tons of settings, configuration, and customization options. Installing it with Docker-CE and Docker-Compose makes it a br...

I was recently searching for a simple GUI tool to allow me to multi-select items on a remote system, and quickly copy / move them to my local system, and vice-versa.  A quick search sent me right to Muon (formerly known as Snowflake). It's a simple applicat...

I've shown you the Homer Dash in the past, and it is a termendousely great dashboard.  The only downside (if you can call it that) is having to change a configuration file in order to add new cards, modify existing cards, or remove cards.   That's where Hei...

Uptime-Kuma is a really nice little applicatioin for checking the status of your home lab web applications, your self hosted websites, or really any web site or web service. I've used Ciao for a while now, and it's great, but it hasn't been updated or maint...

For a couple of years now, I've been showing you all how to install and use some amazing open source software.  The vast majority of that software is, or can be, run in Docker, and many times we use Docker-Compose and NGinX Proxy Manager to run these applica...

Subsonic / Airsonic music streaming servers are an incredible way to self host your own Google Music, iTunes, Apple Music, Spotify, Pandora, and any other streaming service out there, by using your own music, and keeping it all local and under your control. ...

Self hosting amazing open source software is the best feeling in the world. Knowing you're not tied to someone else's servers, whims, or quirks.  The ability to control how you use your own apps, and how and when you add more is what open source is all about...

The Setup The WAN (internet) will feed into the pfSense firewall, and we will use 4 VLANs on a single interface going out  to our router.    We will then set each VLAN up on it's own  wireless SSID.  The Benefit: We control the DHCP Ranges and addressin...

As part of my YouTube Channel, I promise that I will use funds I get from YouTube as well as from my Patreon to pay for Hardware, VPS Hosting, etc.; but also I would use funds to support Open Source. I should have made this page a long time ago, and I've spok...

Installing Pleroma What is it? With the turmoil over the past few weeks at twitter, and the non-stop invasions of your privacy from facebook, advertisers, and anyone else with any half-hair-brained idea, the world is turning to social media platforms that ...

Backups are important for so many reasons.  I have had backups save my bacon more than once, and I have also learned the hard way how important backups really are.  Data loss is no joke, and in this day and age there is truly no reason to have data loss. To...

Duplicati is a really amazing backup solution for your local machine.  You can use Duplicati to backup locally, to storage on your own network, or to cloud hosted storage.  The front end runs in a browser window, so it essentially just runs in the background...

If you have been looking for a self-hosted, open source, free way to do remote support for yourself, your family, your friends, your business, or anything else, this is an excellent tool for doing exactly that.   The best part is we can now install MeshCent...

In the past we've gone over some great tools for checking your internet and network speeds from the command line, but there is really nothing quite like a really nice GUI (Graphical User Interface) for doing something like a speed test. Today, I wantt o int...