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E-Books Forever – A Review of Calibre

January 6, 2023January 6, 2023 BigBadTech 0 Comments

Our Philosophy is that technology should be durable and that you should own things yourself. That includes electronic text. A Kindle is a nice way to read things, but if you buy books through Amazon and let them host the material for you, it’s not permanent. Someday, there won’t be an Amazon. You don’t really own the book unless you have copies of the files yourself.… Read more

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Running a Minecraft Bedrock Server

January 2, 2023 BigBadTech 0 Comments

I’ve hosted plenty of Minecraft servers over the years on my desktop PC, but it took me quite a while to try to set a permanent solution up on the home server. It wasn’t terribly difficult, thankfully, but to spare you the trouble of figuring it out yourself, here are the steps I took. Note that this is the Bedrock edition of Minecraft.… Read more

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Home Server Series Part 6 – Your First Self-Hosted Service

April 19, 2022January 6, 2023 BigBadTech 2 Comments

What good is a server that doesn’t have a service? In this post, we’ll look at using Docker to set up a Bitwarden password management service. In subsequent posts, we’ll add the ability to access this service from outside your home network securely and reliably. Dock What? If you want to run a single service on a server, you can install it, run it, and forget about it.… Read more