🚪Finally painted the trim

The weather finally started to make a change for the best, so I could get out and paint the trim around the new door. Sadly I didn’t get a picture with out the tape… ohh well you can get the idea. You can check out the before and after with the slider below.

March 2, 2024 · 1 min · 53 words · shelby

☕ Still no caffeine, a follow-up.

I up and stopped drinking caffeine cold turkey on January 15th. It was not out of health concerns but more to see if I could do it. As mentioned, I have been upping my caffeine consumption into astronomical proportions and needed to reel it back in. It has now been over a month, and while I miss the taste of a good cup of coffee and various energy drinks, I no longer depend on any of them. ...

February 20, 2024 · 1 min · 172 words · shelby

💻 Mounting Samba share on Ubuntu

I’m mainly noting this here for myself, but perhaps someone else will find this information handy. Install package cifs-utils sudo apt-get install cifs-utils Create a folder to mount the share into sudo mkdir /media/Share Create a file with user credentials in your home directory. touch ~/.smbcredentials Edit the smbcredentials file username=smb_username password=smb_password Edit /etc/fstab sudo nano /etc/fstab Add the following line ( edit where necessary) //NASIP/shares/ /mnt/nas cifs iocharset=utf8,credentials=/home/USER/.smbcredentials,vers=3.0,iocharset=utf8,rw,sec=ntlmssp,file_mode=0644,dir_mode=0755,uid=1000,gid=1000 0 0 You can now mount the samba share with the command below ...

February 13, 2024 · 1 min · 85 words · shelby

🗄️ Uncompressing multiple nested folders

I tend to download many files, most of which are all placed into their own folder within my downloads directory. Instead of going into each folder to uncompress the contents, I wanted to run a single command to achieve this in a timely manner. Using the simple find command below, you can uncompress multiple folders sequentially, one after another. find downloads/ -name '*.rar' -execdir unrar e {} \; Of course, you will need to change the directory, and if you want to use this on zip, tar, etc, you will need to adjust the unrar e aspect to fit the proper command for the file type. ...

February 13, 2024 · 1 min · 106 words · shelby

💻 Mullvad error on ohmyzsh update

When I was running updates on my system, I kept getting this error about Mullvad compinit:527: no such file or directory: /usr/local/share/zsh/site-functions/_mullvad It looked as though when Mullvad was removed, it never fully removed itself from my system. Thankfully, the fix was as easy as grabbing the Mullvad macOS uninstall script from GitHub and running it, which properly removed all of the symlinks and leftover files. You can grab the script and run it from the CLI by doing the following. ...

February 2, 2024 · 1 min · 105 words · shelby