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Category: Blog

Delta Chat is a secure instant messenger app with no central account as it transparently uses encrypted mails via your existing mail account so everyone is potentially a user

2020-10-26 Danie

This is a really interesting concept to have an open source native app running on Android, iOS, MacOS, Windows or Linux which does not require any central registration or account. Just about everyone has an […]

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A good video explaining some insights about using a de-Googled phone as a daily driver

2020-10-26 Danie

What is it actually like to use a de-Googled phone as a daily driver? Will it feel like you became a Luddite or a cave man eschewing tech? Is it actually usable? What apps can […]

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For just over an hour on 11 October 100% of energy demand was met by solar panels alone for the entire South Australia (77% from rooftops remainder from solar farms)

2020-10-26 Danie

South Australia’s renewable energy boom has achieved a global milestone. The state once known for not having enough power has become the first major jurisdiction in the world to be powered entirely by solar energy. […]

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Fish is a smart and user-friendly command line shell for Linux, macOS, and the rest of the family with lots of built-in features

2020-10-26 Danie

Many command line shells for Linux (and MacOS) see stuck in the decades past although they are still fully functional. Fish defaults to VGA colour and auto highlights syntax errors, variables, functions, etc and has […]

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Kerbal Space Program is full of technology and science to build and fly rockets… This is a good intro for complete beginners

2020-10-25 Danie

This is a much easier introduction than just jumping straight into the game’s training. It gives a small taste of what’s to come with the actual building and launching. It’s no wonder that many NASA […]

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GameGuru helps you create your own 3D video games without the need to code and is 85% off right now

2020-10-25 Danie

Every video game fan, at some point, has dreamt of making their own. It’s just a fact. But, of course, there are quite a few obstacles to such a dream. Fortunately, a lack of programming […]

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Ham Radio Remote Control Via A Raspberry Pi And HTML5 Web Interface With Two-Way Audio

2020-10-25 Danie

Interesting setup with just a Raspberry Pi and the usual CAT and sound USB cables to the radio. Being HTML5 it is easily accessible via any laptop or even mobile browser without having to install […]

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Bpytop is an advanced, terminal-based control center for Linux that includes even CPU temps and can even terminate running programs

2020-10-25 Danie

This is a bit more comprehensive than htop but it also has a few more requirements. Still I do like that it is very full featured and really just any GPU stats not there.Note for […]

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My solar installation generated just over 5 Megawatt hours of power over the last 15 months

2020-10-242022-01-29 Danie
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The screenshot below is a measure of the solar energy consumed by battery storage, as well as usage since July 2019. It is measured by the solar regulator, which sends power to the batteries. This […]

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Ncdu (NCurses Disk Usage) is useful to find space hogs on a remote server without a full graphical interface

2020-10-23 Danie

Using ncdu I discovered gigabytes of space being used on my server by SqlBin log files. Ncdu works directly from the CLI terminal screen and allows you to drill down through the directories using the […]

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