Simplifying Gadgets and Technology, is my passion!
Gillette invented the safety razor about 120 years ago, even though they lost interest in it when they discovered they could lock buyers into buying very expensive plastic cartridge razor blades. This happened because everyone […]
I certainly could spend a whole day watching the details of this stunningly beautiful world being explored by driving this Rivian through it. The level of detail is truly mind-blowing now. Two things that are […]
Seeing what happened this week to the Linus Tech Tips YouTube channel made me realise how well we have secured in transit data, password managers, etc (LastPass was also hacked via an end user session) […]
With an 8-core Rockchip RK3588S SoC, the Orange Pi 5 is leaps and bounds faster than the ageing Raspberry Pi 4. With up to 32GB of RAM, the Orange Pi 5 is also capable of […]
In Python (and any language that stores variables), a variable is a reserved memory location that stores a value. They are names that can be assigned a value and used to reference it throughout your […]
These are fully functional Sparkfun weather stations that require no soldering to assemble. They are based around the very cheap BBC micro:bit processor. The weather station can read temperature, humidity, pressure as well as light […]
Founded in November 1998, DPReview is one of the few active review sites as old as Ars Technica. Amazon purchased it in 2007, and the site’s team has been located in Amazon’s hometown of Seattle […]
A web app—also known as “progressive web app” (PWA)—is essentially an application that runs in a web browser. It looks and feels like a native app you’d install from the Play Store or App Store, […]
I did a post about this app a few days ago, but decided to follow it up with this video after a few questions came in. LocalSend can securely send files, text, media, and Android […]
Systemd is a modern software suite that provides many components on a Linux system including a system and service manager. It is compatible with SysV and LSB init scripts and works as a replacement for […]
