Block Facebook in hosts file
I’ve seen longers lits of IP addresseses but this seems to do the trick for me 127.0.0.1 www.facebook.com #127.0.0.1 facebook.com #127.0.0.1 static.ak.fbcdn.net #127.0.0.1 www.static.ak.fbcdn.net #127.0.0.1 login.facebook.com #127.0.0.1 www.login.facebook.com #127.0.0.1 fbcdn.net…
How I got DeepSeek running on Linux, graphically – kinda
This is great – I can’t recall how I did part of this….duh. You have to install: Docker Ollama OpenWeb GUI …and download a model (of course) Install Ollama curl…
Install OpenWeb GUI on Mint 20
As user do the following: sudo mv /etc/apt/preferences.d/nosnap.pref ~/Documents/nosnap.backup apt-get update sudo apt install snapd sudo snap install open-webui --beta
Install Docker on Mint 20
Setting up Docker on Linux Mint 20.X Michael Shoemaker Jul 25, 2021 Download an install script here Download Install Script This is a quick LFG (Let’s….uh, “freaking” GO) 🙂 article…
Install and run DeepSeek on Linux
It seems like this should be more involved but, as I recall, this was the whole deal: curl -fsSL https://ollama.com/install.sh | sh Then, the following…and start asking questions” ollama run…
Matomo timing out: Fix
Go to the config directory and add the following to config.ini.php: enable_marketplace = 0 Download Matomo/Piwik Here is a link to archived releases of Piwik/Matomo.
Repair A Corrupted MBR – Win 10 and 11
Windows 10 Windows 11 Fix UEFI Partition When Win 10/11 Won’t Boot
Various small Linux commands and scripts
Get the date an OS was installed: ls -alct /|tail -1|awk '{print $6, $7, $8}'
Acronis and EaseUS TODO and Macrium Reflect – testing
So for years I have used a copy of Acronis True Image – yep, a bootlegged copy – to occassioanlly back a hard drive. Key to using that software is…
Cracking Davinci Resolve on Windows
Good news for Black Magic Design: I am not a content creator and, quite frankly, it’s very unlikely that I will ever use Davinci Resolve for anything, But I downloaded…