Tutorials

Step-by-step instructions on getting and setting up free, open-source software, operating systems, and even building your own home server.

Jan
06

E-Books Forever – A Review of Calibre

Our Philosophy is that technology should be durable and that you should own things yourself. That includes electronic text. A

Jan
02

Running a Minecraft Bedrock Server

I’ve hosted plenty of Minecraft servers over the years on my desktop PC, but it took me quite a while

Sep
15

Adding Storage to a Linux Machine

Introduction I host a lot of media and services on my home server so when I built it put in

Apr
19

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

What good is a server that doesn’t have a service? In this post, we’ll look at using Docker to set

Feb
24

Exploiting YouTube

Unsurprisingly, we here at Big Bad Tech have a low opinion of Google. Maybe you do too, but you like

Feb
24

Home Server Part 5 – Setting Up Samba

At this point, you’re ready to start hosting your own services, but to make your life significantly easier I have

Feb
24

Home Server Part 4 – Things Get Interesting

If you’ve made it this far, congratulations! We’re about to turn that giant virtual machine file or that computer case

Feb
24

Home Server Part 3 – Choosing a Computer (2 of 2)

In the last article, we looked at two of the ways you could get a computer ready to run home