Quick tip: Turning off laptop display under Debian 10

I’m running my rusty old ThinkPad T430s Laptop as (quite capable) homelab VM host under Linux/KVM running playground VMs. And because I’m accessing this machine only remotely over RDP I don’t have use for the internal laptop display.

After looking around what is the best way to turn the internal laptop display off I’ve settled for a simple solution using the linux command vbetool.

Install R and RStudio Server on Debian 9

When working on data science problems you’ll probably will come in touch with the well known statistical software package R. While R due his long history is an extremely versatile & powerful system for almost any analytical task it’s not known for his user friendliness and can sometimes be challenging to setup locally.

Install Node.js in Debian 10

To be able to develop with Node.js or to deploy Node.js application on a server there has to be a Node.js runtime installed on the server. Whereas there is Node.js available in the Debian package repository its not the most current Node.js version. Let’s install Node.js in a more current version from a external apt repository.

Create encrypted data backups to Backblaze B2

Creating & keeping backups of your data is essential and often not done because of the hassle associated with it. Using the powerful & easy command line tool HashBackup you can create encrypted local and remote backups in different storage destinations like WebDAV, Amazon S3, Backblaze B2.