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Developer from the UK, currently making cool stuff at The Outlook Creative Group.
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Always wanted a black MacBook (“BlackBook”) back in 2006, now I’ve finally managed to find one in great (working) condition 14 years later! Super hard to find one of these that doesn’t look like it’s been dragged behind a car and gone 10 rounds with Mike Tyson at a half reasonable price. This one seems to be all working (aside from a missing caps lock key which I ended up getting from a donor machine) and a completely dead (but original) battery. Now complete with Mac OSX Leopard (Dear Apple, please bring back the old intros ????).
I’ve always found it slightly odd that when using any sudo command in Terminal on the Mac you would have to enter your password if your Mac has Touch ID. Well, after some Googling it looks like it’s super simple to allow your Mac to authenticate sudo commands with Touch ID (and I assume the Apple Watch if my experience testing is anything to go by).
Run:
sudo nano /private/etc/pam.d/sudoAt the top of this file add:
auth sufficient pam_tid.soSave and exit nano (ctrl + o, ctrl + x). That should be it! Now when you next need to use sudo, it should prompt you for Touch ID instead of your password!
Not sure if this has any downsides or long term affects yet, we’ll find out!
We all know that comment sections on some sites *cough* YouTube *cough* can end up being a toxic wasteland, well this aptly named plugin does a good job of, well, shutting them up!
Wow, what an eye opening piece of television! I’ve just finished “The Social Dilemma” on Netflix and it really does open your eyes wide to what companies are doing with your data, and how we’re being influenced to think in certain/specific ways by hundreds of tiny little actions every day from these social networks.
We are all aware of the “If you don’t pay for the product, you are the product” saying and we all think we have an idea of what these companies do with our data, but boy oh boy does this documentary really up the “scare” factor on that!
I’ve recently started building up my blink-182 collection and managed to snag both part 1 and 2 of the “Not Now” single on vinyl, super stoked with them and can’t wait to get them framed!
I’ve recently moved my Plex server to run on a Raspberry Pi but I wanted to find a way where I could keep all of my data on the Synology. This is the way I mounted shared folders from my Synology to my Pi so I could use them in Plex.
Once the edit panel is open, click “NFS Permissions” and then “Create”.
Hostname or IP: This should be the IP address of your Raspberry Pi (ideally a static address)
Privilege: What abilities do you want the Pi to have? I usually select “Read only”
Squash: Map all to admin
Tick “Allow users to access mounted subfolders”
Click “Ok”.
That should be it from the Syndology side, onto the Raspberry Pi side.
First thing I do is create a new directory in the /media folder on the Pi, in this case I called it NAS (/media/NAS)
sudo mkdir -p /media/NASNext up we need to mount the network folder to this folder we’ve just created.
sudo mount -t nfs 10.0.synolgy.address:/volume1/video /media/NASReplace 10.0.synology.address with your Synology’s IP adress. Also replace /volume1/video with the mount path you made a note of earlier (found under each NFS rule).
Almost there! Sudo mount is not a permanent command, so we need to make sure it still works next time you reboot your Pi. To do this:
sudo nano /etc/fstabThen on a new line in there, paste the following (making sure to replace the same details as before):
10.0.synolgy.address:/volume1/video /media/NAS nfs defaults 0 0Save and exit fstab and you should be ready to go!
In theory, you should be able to run “ls /media/NAS” and you should see the files/folders from your Syndology! This should also now mean you can add these folders to Plex on your Pi as libraries, simple!
Sometimes I’ve noticed the mounts don’t always mount when the Pi boots. I’ve yet to find a permanent solution for this, for the meantime I just run:
sudo mount -aUpdate 20/11/2021 – Some searching has suggested that adding “_netdev” to our fstab options may help, this should stop fstab trying to mount the drives until the network connection is set up.
In theory, the fstab command would become:
10.0.synolgy.address:/volume1/video /media/NAS nfs defaults,_netdev 0 0A full list of fstab options can be found here.
This is one I experienced recently, I could mount the folder from the Synology on the Pi but I was not able to do anything with it (not even list files in the directory using “ls”). I ended up noticing this was down to permissions on the Synology with the admin account.
Within the shared folder settings in the Synology control panel, make sure “admin” has access to read/write the folder you’re trying to share.
