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In my country, 2 decades ago there are were plenty of people who knew the basics. Today, it feels like a lost art. I would like to approach it as a hobby, not like electronic engineer level, but enough to debug problem…

It seems all the currents ways of configuring Raspberry Pi wifi through the phone are based in captive portals. At the same time, it looks like browsers, starting by Chrome are restrincting more and more any use but the…

I just discovered, in the pursuit of my entrepreneurial journey and in my thirties that I am terrible. Worst that I thought It could be. This leads to procrastination and being exhausted all the time. Sometimes I don't…

I have a project kiosk-like Using raspberry Pi. Every time I set one up, I have to connect manually internet through wifi (using keyboard). I was wondering if there is something to do the whole thing with the phone,…

Hi guys, I have been developing a digital signage projects aimed at restaurants and bars. It's all done by me. It is basic in the way that is a 32" screen that show at each time of the day the most desired products to…

Hi guys, I have a project consisting in a network of Smart Kiosks powered by Raspberry Pi each one. It is an amateur project in the way that I am just an amateur trying to make stuff. Right now, when I want to add a new…

I have been thinking these lasts months about moving to render. Mostly to keep my life simple. Then, I heard something about changing prices, and learning more, I found: "Egress bandwidth usage beyond a plan’s free…

Hi guys, I'm tinkering trying to do a real-life smartTV/Kiosk for commercials. I have no problem turning on/off the screen, however given that I do a daily restart, I would like to do it when the screen is off, and keep…

I have tried a bunch of things, including taking my own notes, OSS alternatives and other methods. Nothing seems to make "click". I think that maybe "personal" is too broad and this is the problem. For example: MonicaHQ…

After a few years playing with VPSs, I find alluring the offers coming from Hetzner/OVH and similars. I am worried about the new responsibilities that might come with it such as checking Disks and RAMs. Those of you…

I am interested to learn from a how-to guide about the art of getting information, mapping people and so on. Let's say it is a mix between a researcher and a journalist. I know making questions is a a good start, but I…

I am in the process of having my first real life production app (Ruby on Rails). I have tried back and forth Puma and Phusion Passenger OSS. I know the first one is mutithreaded and more performant, but Passenger is…

I would love Heroku's easy deployment way in dirty cheap virtual servers. It looks like Dokku is the name of that. Can anybody share the experience?

I have found myself amazed reading old times war stories from Tim O'Reilly (http://radar.oreilly.com/2006/04/database-war-stories-3-flickr.html) They are old, but awesome. I know around here there great people with such…

In the past I've been deploying everything (application + DB) in the same server for small projects. I didn't have the need to split the DB into another server, but I think it wouldn't be a big issue. The think is that…

In these days of Kubernetes and microservices everywhere I am using a monolith in a single server in which I have also the database (Just use S3 for object storage) (servers are pretty powerful nowadays) I don't have…

I am developing a kiosk-ish application with raspberry to be managed remotely. So far I have managed to get to know if a monitor is connected to the HDMI, but in no way I can now if it has been switched off or has lost…