Setting Up A 3O - Offline, Open, Office.
summary
Builds a local, offline business stack on repurposed laptops and prepaid hardware using Ubuntu (works up to 18.04), boots installers from USB, wipes drives with Direct Boot and Nuke, and urges splurging on reliable hard drives; uses GnuCash/Beancount or ledger-style Beancount web frontends for invoicing and plain‑text ledgers, LibreOffice for documents, and installs Mail-in-a-Box to run email Nextcloud and webmail via a one‑line bash installer — tested in Barbados with 4G fallback and solar power, mostly functional with Ubuntu caveats.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Start
- 8:29Repair and/or Assembly
- 10:50Install Software
- 13:59Basic Home Office - Complete
- 14:40Caveat Utilitor – Private Email
- 16:08Mail, Web, File
- 17:47Advanced Home Office - Complete
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