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I was getting a bit tired of getting non-stop notifications when I was mowing the front lawn. So I decided to create a toggle in Home Assistant that would pause notifications for 15 minutes. The first step was to create a button helper in Home Assistant, which would serve as the toggle switch to pause…

I downloaded some old abandoned software the other day, and one of the disk images was in the b6t format. I had no idea what that format was, but I was determined to get the software up and running. After some research, I found that b6t is a proprietary disk image format used by some…

Okay, so my Portainer container was up… First port of call, get Plex up! My Plex media is actually stored on a Windows share. Here’s how I got it working. As a media enthusiast, I rely on Plex to stream my favorite shows and movies to my devices. However, my media library is stored on…

My trusty Ubuntu server has been running for a few years now, and it was a guinea pig for all my crazy ideas and lack of experience, so naturally it filled up with junk. I wanted to get a new one up and running, with the following essentials: Portainer, Docker, and Tailscale. In order to…

I find myself forgetting syntax when it comes to checking drive space and freeing space, here is a handy cheat sheet you hopefully will find handy for finding and cleaning up old data from your Ubuntu machine. Note! Whenever cleaning up, take a backup first! Checking Drive Space Finding Large Files and Directories Freeing Up Space…

I recently ran into a frustrating “No space left on device” error on my VM. The culprit? Unused Docker images, containers, and volumes. Here’s a quick solution to get you back up and running: The Problem: Docker Sprawl Unused Docker resources consume disk space, slowing down your system. Particularly the docker/overlay2 folder. Check this out…

When using ef migrations with an existing project, I found that that entity framework could not get a configuration, so therefore it could not get connection string etc. The reason for this is that ef migrations look at a few places, for the configuration. I tried a few work arounds, but none of those worked.…

I was working on a multi project solution and needed to do some code first migrations. It had been a while since I had done migrations and when running them, I noticed an error I hadn’t seen before. This was a strange error, and after adding the -v switch to the dotnet ef migrations add…

As developers, we’ve all been there – stuck on a seemingly insurmountable error, with no clear solution in sight. Recently, I encountered an issue while trying to run migrations on my ASP.NET Core application. The problem was that my database was housed in a separate project from my application, which led to some unexpected errors.…

Step 1: Install the necessary packages You will need to install the cifs-utils package to mount a network drive on a Linux system. You can install it using the following command: Step 2: Create a mount point Create a mount point for the network drive. This will be the directory where the network drive will…