The command is sudo dd if=/path/of/stick of-=/path/to/place/file.iso This creates an burnable iso file which is an exact copy - same size as usb stick or device - for use later if needed. Other useful commands are lsblk giving you mount points of the drives and $ dmesg | grep -i usb $ dmesg | grep -...

Often the client is not online due to certificate expiration. Using the website url doesn't seem to work, so going into the command line and reconnecting does the trick for on demand client backups. Info is found on the NAS under Dragnet/coronary_programs/Synology The Active Backup folder has a read...

The solution that worked for me was to remove/reinstall some pipewire packages and enable them on startup: sudo apt reinstall pipewire pipewire-bin pipewire-pulse systemctl --user --now enable pipewire pipewire-pulse After reboot I removed the old device from the list, scanned again for it, paired, ...

To manually start a backup on a linux machine the command line tool has to be started and the SSL certificate has to still be the same as when it was last run. I fuk around enought to change the certificate regularly, so the tool will say it's connected when it's not - dunno why, don't care. To reco...

This is how to change the blinding boot screen in Pi OS to something less injurious. Answer found here --> https://forums.raspberrypi.com/viewtopic.php?t=357885 Place the file but no change in boot screen? All but nothing in return? Ugh... The missing part is to add a command after moving the new sp...

after some time it became important to know how to get the updated file from snapcraft.io the list of current chromium packages is fetched with a curl command curl -H 'Snap-Device-Series: 16' http://api.snapcraft.io/v2/snaps/info/chromium >> chromium.info This creates a file chromium.info in the roo...

Raspberry OS won't autoconnect bluetooth devices like other ISO's do. This is the cure: from https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Bluetooth_headset#Setting_up_auto_connection To make your headset auto connect you need to enable PulseAudio's switch-on-connect module. Do this by adding the following lines...

An overview on how to [specific instructions follow]: Collect the images [minimum 2] you’d like to include into one directory. Create xml file. using an editor of your choice create an xml file in the same directory as the images Transfer the directory containing xml file and images to /use/share/ba...

I'm probably going to continue calliing it Raspian for a while yet, but meh.... This is the link that got me most of the way there --> https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/rpi4-raspberry-pi-os-mate-essential-tweaks.html First, get your install up to date. sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade As h...

I've had to look this video up enough times to know that I'll need it time and again. Found here --> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUv1tq91NMY I've also downloaded it to the NAS under /video/1_site_video Remove the legs, wings, and then breasts. Place the carcas aside for soup later. Separate the ...