Tips and Tricks

How to automatically create weekly, full SD card backups of a headless Raspberry Pi 4 running Debian, using built-in tools and keeping the last two backups.

Raspberry Pi Backups

10/03/2026

How to automatically create weekly, full SD card backups of a headless Raspberry Pi 4 running Debian, using built-in tools and keeping the last two backups.
Reduce memory usage and improve security by disabling unnecessary services on a headless Raspberry Pi 4.

Optimize Pi 4

07/24/2026

Reduce memory usage and improve security by disabling unnecessary services on a headless Raspberry Pi 4.
How to monitor your Raspberry Pi 4 health, check services, and diagnose throttling, storage, and performance issues from the terminal.

Raspberry Pi 4 Health Check

05/15/2026

How to monitor your Raspberry Pi 4 health, check services, and diagnose throttling, storage, and performance issues from the terminal.
Automatically connect to your home VPN when leaving Wi-Fi using iPhone Shortcuts.

Auto VPN iPhone

04/15/2026

Automatically connect to your home VPN when leaving Wi-Fi using iPhone Shortcuts.

App Focus - Apple Watch

04/15/2025

It's often useful to keep an app screen up and running on your apple watch but many times the watch face is automatically reverted to.
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