My Notes on Tech Stuff

These are just some random notes that might help me to remember stuff. Things like installations and upgrades that I only do now and again.

Edited 15 February 2025 to update the upgrade instructions.

Firefly III has had a long and stormy history. There are many ways of installing Firefly III, so there are many ways to upgrade.

Download the latest release from Github.

cd /srv/www
wget https://github.com/firefly-iii/firefly-iii/rele...

Edited 15 February 2025 with updated instructions from the Github repository

This page gives you instructions on how to upgrade your Firefly III Data Importer (FIDI).

Upgrading a self-hosted FIDI

Download the latest release as a tar.gz file from GitHub.

cd /srv/www
wget https://github.com/...

Change to root user
sudo su -

Enter Libreddit LXC Container
lxc-attach -n libreddit

Copy current binary file
cp -ar /usr/bin/libreddit /usr/bin/libreddit-old

Download new binary from github
curl -OL https://github.com/libreddit/libreddit/releases/download/v0.24.0/libreddit

Make Execu...

Installation

  1. Installation and user manuals are downloaded from the synology website.

  2. Getting Started guides:

Permissions and ACLs

  1. The NAS works best when keeping acls as intact as possible and keeping as few users in the administrator as possi...

Debian Buster requires the option x-systemd.automount in fstab to mount SMB shares. So my fstab line looks like this:

///video      /home/shares/video   cifs    vers=3.0,rw,user,credentials=/home//,uid=,gid=,x-systemd.automount,_netdev  0       0

Magical...