July 24, 2020

Quickly resize and shrink Raspberry Pi SD card image on MacOS

From time to time you may want to quickly copy a raspberry pi image from one system to another....but only have a smaller SD card. Or you started your project as a tryout on a crazy 64GB sd card, and realize later that 8GB would be way enough. So what you want to do, is […]

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October 25, 2019

Pi VPN Box: Anonymous Raspbian with ExpressVPN and jDownloader

This is how to turn a Raspberry Pi into a powerful VPN box, that automatically connects to a VPN on boot and keeps itself connected by trying to reconnect when disconnected. If it gets disconnected from the VPN at one point we are ensuring that all traffic gets drop until we are back connected with […]

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October 25, 2019

Raspbian update routine script

This is a little helper script that runs all the update commands of the Raspberry Pi in an order. Making it more comfortable to use and also possible to tie to a cronjob for automatic system update schedules. Lets start with creating the script file in our home dir: Paste the following script into the […]

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October 21, 2019

Automatic backups for Raspberry Pis to a Synology NFS share

Problem to solve: If you have some Raspberry Pis at home and you like tinkering around with them like I do, then you probably know that feeling that all of a sudden nothing seems to be working as it used to be and you want to re-roll to a certain point and just start all […]

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