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Sometimes you just need more SWAP space on your Raspberry Pi. Per default, it is set to 100 MB if I remember correctly, which is low and depending on what you are running on your Raspberry Pi, filled up pretty fast. One thing to keep in mind, your SWAP should never be higher than your… Read more
Installing PHP on a Raspberry PI is actually pretty straightforward, PHP is available in the Raspberry’s package repository. But, at the time of this writing, Just PHP 7.4 is available. Still ok, not terribly outdated, but dropped out of active support on November 28th, 2021 and will be EoL with November 28th, 2022. See PHP… Read more
If you’re running a Raspberry Pi with a somewhat important service in your network, like a DNS-Level Adblocker, Nextcloud, a proxy web server and so on, you’ll probably like to back it up on a regular basis. One way could be to unplug the MicroSD card – or any other kind of storage you use… Read more
By default, when setting up a Raspberry PI, Bluetooth and WiFi are enabled. This is not always what you want, especially when you don’t need either of them. So, time to disable them, because having them enabled and probably unsecured is a potential attack vector into your network. Change Boot Configuration First, we need to… Read more
If you want to install Go on your Raspberry Pi you have a few options. In the past, there was a lot of cross-compiling and hacking to get it done, but now you can install it through Apt. However, you’re likely to find an older version. For instance, at the time of this writing, an… Read more
Install ‘rpi-eeprom’ (Older Versions of Raspberry Pi OS / Raspbian) Newer versions of Raspberry Pi OS come with this utility already but if you are upgrading/have upgraded from an older version you may not have it in some cases. We can install it with the following commands: Once the utility is installed Raspberry Pi OS… Read more