Simplifying Gadgets and Technology, is my passion!
Chrome/Chromium derivatives are popular browsers for a reason: They’re fast, powerful, and compatible with popular apps, services, and extensions. All that power, though, comes from somewhere, and ends up putting a strain on your RAM. […]
Eufy’s commitment to privacy is remarkable: it promises your data will be stored locally, that it “never leaves the safety of your home,” that its footage only gets transmitted with “end-to-end” military-grade encryption, and that […]
Apple has been notorious for keeping it’s own decryption keys to users’ data in iCloud, so this article required some checking. Many vendors also talk about end-to-end encryption, but mean that their server is one […]
Trains in operation and airplanes that are arriving or departing are represented on a realistic 3D map with smooth animation. This is a “digital twin” that looks exactly like the real world in the digital […]
Seems Thunderbird acquired K-9 Mail and have been transitioning that to become Thunderbird for Android. But there is a beta version now to try. See https://blog.thunderbird.net/2022/12/thunderbird-for-android-preview-modern-message-redesign/ #technology #Thunderbird #Android #email #opensource
One of the most secure methods to do this has been to use an existing Macbook computer, or a macOS VM, but they all require additional stuff to be set up and keep working. It […]
The model is based on the company’s latest text-generation GPT-3.5 system released earlier this year. ChatGPT is more conversational than previous versions. It can ask users follow-up questions and refrain from responding to inappropriate inputs […]
A recently-launched online app in South Africa shows motorists which fuel stations they should use for the cheapest refills and best cash-back rewards from their banking and other fuel rewards programmes. The tool — called […]
The PalmPilot doesn’t seem to get much retrocomputing love, but maybe it should. After all, it might not have been the very first handheld, but it was probably the most successful, and that ultimately led […]
In 1910, two beardy Belgians started a project: to collect the entirety of human knowledge in one place, and make it available to everyone. It sounds a lot like the Wikipedia or Google – but […]
