today's howtos
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How to Encode or Decode a base64 String on Linux - Pi My Life Up
In this tutorial, you will learn how to encode or decode data using base64 on Linux. Base64 is used for encoding data for transit or storage. As one of the core utilities on Linux this tool is always available.
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How to Check GPU (Intel/AMD/NVIDIA) Usage in Ubuntu 22.04 | 20.04 | UbuntuHandbook
Unlike Windows, Ubuntu so far does not have real-time GPU usage info displayed in its system monitor application. If you want to check how much your graphic card is in use, then this simple tutorial may help!
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Extracting and Opening RAR Files on Linux - Pi My Life Up
In this tutorial, you will be learning how to extract a RAR archive on the Linux system. RAR is a proprietary archiving format that allows you to compress and store multiple files. It even supports verifying contents remain uncorrupted.
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How to Install Spotify on Ubuntu - Pi My Life Up
Spotify is one of the most popular audio streaming services and is highly regarded as one of the pioneers in its space and is known for its range of music and its exclusive podcasts.
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How to use the less Command - Pi My Life Up
This tutorial will explain how to use the less command on a Linux operating system. The less command allows you to display the content of a file or output in smaller parts. This command is particularly useful when viewing large files with hundreds of lines of text.
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How To Import and Use Microsoft Excel Templates on LibreOffice Calc
This tutorial will help you be more productive with LibreOffice Calc by taking benefit of the existing, thousands of Microsoft Excel's templates on the internet. Thanks to LibreOffice compatibility features, this is possible. With this, you can quickly make invoices, receipts, project management, budget plans, financial reports, bookkeeping, teacher/student records and many more. Let's try now!
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How to add 'Do Not Track' to Thunderbird (and why you should) | ZDNET
In this modern age, it's growing harder and harder to prevent being tracked. Most often this is used to better target you for advertising. That alone, for many, is an invasion of privacy. Because of that, several software types have adopted Do Not Track (DNT).
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Using Touch Command in Ubuntu
The touch command is primarily used to modify the timestamp of a file. If the file does not exist, then the default behavior of the touch command is to create the file.
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Installing Mastodon on the Raspberry Pi - Pi My Life Up
Mastodon is a free and open-source software that allows you to self-host your own social network on your Raspberry Pi.
This software is a microblogging platform that is very much like Twitter However, unlike Twitter, it is possible to use Mastodon to run a private social network.
Please note that Mastodon is a relatively heavy piece of software. You will have the best experience using a Raspberry Pi 4 with at least 2GB of memory.
Additionally, you must be using a 64-bit operating system due to the newer release of PostgreSQL we will be utilizing.
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Installing PostgreSQL on Ubuntu - Pi My Life Up
PostgreSQL is a relational database management system that implements the SQL language.
It is entirely free and open-source and was developed with a focus on extensibility and SQL compliance.
If you have ever used MySQL or MariaDB on Ubuntu, working with PostgreSQL is very familiar.
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Export Command in Ubuntu: How to use it?
The export command is used for exporting environment variables so that the variable is also available to subshells and scripts you run.