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Turning an Inexpensive Thermal Label Printer into a Wireless Shipping Printer
If you sell online through eBay, Shopify, Poshmark, Pirate Ship, or similar platforms, you don't need an expensive label printer to print shipping labels. There are many inexpensive thermal label printers on Amazon for 4x6 shipping labels. Most of these printers are USB-only, meaning they're designed…
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Free up storage space by deleting unused Linux Kernels
While performing some regular updates on a few of my Ubuntu VMs, I ran out of space to continue performing updates on the /boot volume. The following commands will help you locate and clear up any unused Linux kernels reclaiming space in this volume. First, run the following to determine…
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Genmoji not appearing in iOS 18.2? Check this setting
Apple released Genmoji in iOS 18.2, released to the public on Wednesday, December 11th, 2024. To use Genmoji, a button should appear on your Emoji keyboard once the model is ready on your device. If you donā€™t see the Genmoji text field or button, and you meet the…
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Building a Sports Ticker using ESPHome and Home Assistant
Some home automation projects take years to get off the bench, sometimes finally. This was mine. This project took about five years from conception to completion. Not for lack of trying, but simply due to complexity and competing attention, the Sports Ticker project sat on my workbench collecting dust. But…
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Building a Sports Ticker Part 2: Showing Sports Scores and Data
As I wrote in Part 1 of Building Your Own Sports Ticker, one of the more difficult parts of this project was getting the sports data to show it on the ticker. This headache was solved when I encountered the custom Home Assistant component, ha-teamtracker. You can install it using…
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Install Plexamp Headless on a Raspberry Pi
Easily get up and running with PlexAmp Headless and start listening to your high quality music like you've never heard before!…
