In this video I offer an alternative to buying a new pc. I take you step by step by demonstration how I was able to install a free copy of Ubuntu 22.04 in the cloud. And although it still does that, it slowly morphed into a video where , because I was also able to connect to the ubuntu instance from my IPad as well as my local windows PC , it coming with word, excel and PowerPoint like applications, and when using my local windows PC being able to easily map its local drives and printers , even though its some 5000 miles away, I could consider it as a very cheap alternative to buying a new laptop, and just use my tablet instead.
And as this solution comes completely free for the first 4 to 5 months I would have more than enough time to play with it first, and see if it met my needs, before committing to getting a new laptop if it didn’t.


FREE Hetzner Link : https://cloudtechlinks.com/V47-Hetner...


To run the build script
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cd ~ && sudo apt install wget && wget https://cloudtechlinks.com/V47-Build-... -O build.sh && sudo chmod +x build.sh && sudo bash build.sh

Timestamps:
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0:00 The Video Purpose
01:02 The Game Plan
03:05 Creating a Hetzner VPS Cloud Server using their Free Trial
05:55 Download, Install and connect via the Putty SSH Client
07:55 Run the Build Script
13:55 Connect via NoMachine Windows Client
18:15 A look round NoMachine
24:15 Open and print an Excel Spreadsheet
27:30 YouTube End Screen




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If you are looking for a particular video try,
1) Channel : https://cloudtechlinks.com/YTChannel
2) then : https://cloudtechlinks.com/All-Videos
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The Build script commands
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Section : Inital Installs
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sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade -y
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop -y
sudo apt-get install stacer -y
sudo apt-get install mmv -y
sudo apt-get install firefox -y
sudo apt-get install qdirstat -y


Section : About to build 2GB swapfile called /swapfile
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echo "/swapfile does not exist. Bulding /swapfile.."
cd /
sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile bs=1M count=2048 status=progress
sudo chmod 600 /swapfile
sudo mkswap /swapfile
sudo swapon /swapfile
echo '/swapfile none swap sw 0 0' | sudo tee -a /etc/fstab


Section : Replace VPS Provider controlled networking with OS networking
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sudo mmv '/etc/netplan/*.yaml' '/etc/netplan/#1.bak'
sudo wget https://cloudtechlinks.com/V47-cloudt... --output-document=/etc/netplan/v47-cloudtech-youtube-video.yaml


Section : Install NoMachine v8.4.1 amd64
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sudo wget https://download.nomachine.com/downlo...
sudo apt install -f ./nomachine_8.4.2_1_amd64.deb


Section : Install and Configure UFW - The Uncomplicated Firewall
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sudo apt-get install ufw -y
sudo ufw allow 22
sudo ufw allow 4000
sudo ufw enable
sudo ufw status numbered


Section : Set up nomachine user & lock root user"
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sudo adduser nomachine
#(example password : paste se7ye8pc5hs0 )
sudo usermod -aG sudo,adm,lp,sys,lpadmin nomachine
sudo passwd --delete --lock rootuser