Implement Umami Analytics
Umami is a simple, fast, privacy-focused, open-source analytics solution. It is a cool tool. I saw someone install Umami from source code or docker. I am a lazy man. So I just signed up and started to use the cloud...
My January Challenge
It is January 2024. This month, I have a challenge of Blogging. It is to publish one post per day. It’s very hard for me. I have never tried it before. I will focus on blogging only. I will not...
What about the Cloudflare R2 Storage now
I have been using Cloudflare R2 for Mastodon media storage for almost a week. Let me see what the status of this bucket is and how much storage it takes. The Cloudflare R2 Bucket information See, the Bucket size is...
Domain Name Price and How to Transfer a Domain
This week, I am doing domain names winter clean. I have a lot of domain names that need to be maintained. How many domain registrars do I use? About twenty years ago, I registered my first Domain name at 1and1....
Enable Audio on Guest Windows XP in Proxmox VE system
Here is the situation. The host is the Proxmox VE system. The guest system is Windows XP SP3. The problem is I can play sound in this Windows XP. I know the noVNC has no sound. How to enable audio?...
Goodbye 2023
It is already 2024. I would like to look back and see what I did in the past year. How many posts have I published in 2023? Yinfor.com 80 blog posts journal.yinfor.com 11 blog posts seo.g2soft.net 21 blog posts So,...
Replace Backblaze B2 with Cloudflare R2
Yes, a few days ago, I started to use Cloudflare R2 for my Mastodon media storage. There are three steps. 1) Download all the media files from Backblaze B2 2) Upload the files of step 1 to Cloudflare R2 3)...
Upgrade my Matomo instance to v5.0
Today, when I checked the old emails of my second Gmail account, I saw an email with an update notice. I started to use Matomo on this blog in May 2023. Matomo Analytics 5.0 is here What’s new? * Strengthened...
Happy New Year 2024
It is almost 2024. We have the Jiaozi (Dumplin) for dinner. Everyone in my family does it together. I prepared the stuffing. Mainly are ground pork 500g, Napa cabbage 1500g. Chopped napa, and pressed them to get off the water....
What about the Backblaze B2 storage now
I have been using Backblaze B2 Storage for fifteen days. In the beginning, the data was not stable. I changed the settings multiple times. The Backblaze backend reporting is kind of delayed or 48 hours round. Today, I will recheck...
It is time to upgrade Tp-Link devices again
Almost every three months, I will try to upgrade the device firmware. Here are the simple records for today’s updates. Upgrade the TP-Link Switch. The latest one is v1.0.13. After the upgrade, it will reboot automatically. It is a...
Use these parking lot safety tips this holiday season
I received an email from ICBC. It is a great reminder for the drivers in BC. It also provides some important facts here. 32% of crashes happend in parking lots. Holiday shopping season is here! While it’s always important to...
Setup tootctl tool environment and the usage of media files
When I post the Mastodon Self-hosting – Clean Media Storage with tootctl command, I forget to record how I prepare the environment. Before I run the tootctl command, I did the following. I checked the version of tootctl.
Figured out why Gitlab CE eats Disk Space so fast
In the last post, I mentioned that my Gitlab CE space was used very fast. In 4 months, I have to expand the disk space again. The folder /var/opt/gitlab/prometheus/data/wal is more than 85GB. There are so many files in the...
Expand VM disk again in Proxmox VE
It is the second time I have expanded the disk on Proxmox VE. I have a post about how to expand the VM disk in Proxmox VE. The host is Proxmox VE v8.1.3. The guest is a Gitlab on Ubuntu...