Geeker's Digest

Tech blog with news, tutorials and other geek stuff on www.geekersdigest.com. Written by Geeks for Geeks.

2025-06-20

If you are a user of #Seafile, whether with a self-hosted instance or using a Cloud Service, you might have run into upload problems using #Android lately.

Since the release of the Seafile App (Seadroid) v3.x there were reports related to problems with file uploads or sharing inside the app.

The latest version of Seadroid is v3.15, released just two days ago, fixes these upload issues - especially on older Android devices.

geekersdigest.com/seafile-andr

2025-06-17

If you operate servers and services, whether they're on running in the #Cloud or #onpremise (or even in your basement), you want to see data from your monitoring or observability setup.

In our latest #blog post we show how to build your own cost-effective "monitoring station", used to display your dashboards and #metrics.

geekersdigest.com/how-to-build

2025-06-12

With Enterprise Linux (EL) 10 meanwhile released, we've updated our #Linux LTS list with the new RHEL, @rockylinux and @almalinux support cycles.

geekersdigest.com/updated-list

2025-05-27

In our latest #tutorial we explain how to use #git to pull a _different_ branch from the remote repository and continue working on this newly pulled branch.

geekersdigest.com/how-to-pull-

2025-05-22

The default #Shell terminal in @linuxmint is the GNOME Terminal.

In new installations of #Linux Mint you might notice that the menu bar in the #Terminal window is no longer showing up.

In our latest #tutorial we show how to change the preferences to get the menu bar back.

geekersdigest.com/how-to-re-en

2025-05-15

After a pause of several years, hard drive producer Western Digital Corporation (NASDAQ: WDC) announced the return of quarterly cash #dividends starting Q3 2025.

This announcement comes surprisingly early. Just three months earlier, #WDC completed the company separation of Flash drives and products into the #SanDisk spin-off.

geekersdigest.com/western-digi

2025-05-07

Our latest #tutorial is a little bit different, compared to our usual OpenSource posts.

If you own a #SolarEdge inverter and use #ModbusTCP for your own monitoring or to grab #PV metrics (#HomeAssistant uses this, too), you might have run into some communication issues.

In our post we show how to manually restart the #Modbus service on a SolarEdge inverter.

geekersdigest.com/how-to-resta

2025-04-25

The so-called Developer Tools in the @mozilla Firefox browser are extremely helpful to debug application code and #HTTP errors.

Long-time #Firefox users may have noticed a change in the "Edit and Resend" function. In the past, the request headers could be modified - they are now greyed out.

But with a small configuration change, the old behaviour of "Edit and Resend" can be enabled again. This allows to modify the request headers before re-sending the request.

In our latest #tutorial post we show how.
geekersdigest.com/how-to-modif

2025-04-23

Only one more week left and #Ubuntu 20.04 LTS will be offiically end of life and will no longer receive security updates.

Last call to upgrade your Ubuntu #Linux!

And to not run into unforeseeable problems, we've put together a list of potential upgrade hurdles.

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geekersdigest.com/ubuntu-20-04

2025-04-17

A foreign configured mdadm #raid array is auto-detected in #Linux and is named md127 by default.

In our latest #turorial we show how to rename a mdadm raid array and keep the name persistent.

geekersdigest.com/how-to-renam

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2025-04-11

In the last couple of days, #LinkedIn feeds are filled with so-called action figures of LinkedIn users. 😂

But where do these funny pictures come from? How can you create such an action figure of yourself?

In our latest #tutorial we show which #AI prompt to use to create a virtual action figure of yourself.

geekersdigest.com/how-to-creat

2025-04-08

In the last couple of days, #LinkedIn feeds are filled with so-called action figures of LinkedIn users. 😂

But where do these funny pictures come from? How can you create such an action figure of yourself?

In our latest #tutorial we show which #AI prompt to use to create a virtual action figure of yourself.

geekersdigest.com/how-to-creat

2025-04-02

Modern motherboards expect #UEFI drives to boot from.

For legacy drives without an ESP (EFI System Partition) there is usually a legacy/compatibility mode in the BIOS options.

If the CSM (Compatibility Support Module) on ASUS and MSI motherboards remains disabled, a completely different (and not obvious) reason could be behind it.

geekersdigest.com/why-csm-comp

2025-03-27

When starting a Docker #container, this uses a so-called "#Docker Image" in the background. These images can be built on top of each other (called layers).

An image can be created from yet another image, potentially resulting in many many layers.

To extract files and directories from all these layers, there's some patience and wizardry needed.

Or you use our #HowTo which shows a really nice helper script doing all the work for you. 👇

geekersdigest.com/how-to-unpac

2025-03-14

Our author (finally!) made it to the DevOpsDays @zurich conference and wrote about his impressions and some of the talks.

Here's our (quick and non-conclusive) review of the #devopsdays event.

geekersdigest.com/reviewing-th

2025-03-07

Are your mail servers suddenly appearing on the #DNSBL (anti-spam DNS Block List) ix.dnsbl.manitu.net?

The widely used #NixSpam DNSBL, operating under ix.dnsbl.manitu.net, has (sadly) seized operations.

geekersdigest.com/suddenly-lis

2025-02-24

In Spring 2024, Western Digital Corp (WDC) announced a company separation, to separate its Hard Disk (HDD) and Flash businesses.

This separation is now in effect. Western Digital will focus on HDD, Sandisk Corp. will be the official company for Flash disks (SSD, NVME) and memory.

geekersdigest.com/western-digi

2025-02-13

In just two months (in April 2025), the widely used #Linux distribution #Ubuntu 20.04 (Focal Fossa), will be end of life (EOL) and won't receive any public updates anymore.

That means: It's about time to upgrade your @ubuntu LTS!

We have created a list of some gotchas you might run into during or after the distribution upgrade.

geekersdigest.com/ubuntu-20-04

2025-02-09

In our latest #tutorial we show how to remove multiple packages on #Debian and other #Linux distributions using APT package manager.

There is even the possibility the remove multiple packages matching a wildcard!

geekersdigest.com/how-to-remov

2025-02-06

Remotely executing commands with #SSH (without having to log in) is very easy. Just append the command you want to run on the target server.

However if you want to run a command involving sudo on the target server, you might get an error.

In our latest #Linux #tutorial we show how to use sudo inside a SSH command.

geekersdigest.com/how-to-use-s

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