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And it has a 3.5mm headphone jack… There is also an in-display fingerprint scanner and a 4,500mAh battery with 55W fast charging. Price will range from around US$543 to $714 depending on RAM and storage […]

Just before the first COVID-19 lockdown started in Melbourne, Patrick Stokes ran out and bought an Xbox – “for the kids,” you understand… Red Dead Redemption 2, released in October 2018, spent more than seven […]

A quick and easy way to improve the performance of Firefox on Linux is to force enable WebRender. At some point in the near future Firefox will make web render the new rendering engine for […]

Certainly very useful for most lightweight database work. What I love about it is that it’s all open standards so any client can connect and work with it, and of course there are no licensing […]

Mastodon (a Twitter-like clone) allows anyone to establish and manage their own node, which could allow their fans to also join up at that same node. Then a celeb is managing their own messaging platform […]

This was quite an interesting watch about what happened to the video chat service that ruled the world, and which I have not used for the last few years. It also reminds me of so […]

Sad to say South Africa’s car assemblies are still assembling only ICE vehicles. This particular Hyundai is one I would like to have seen in South Africa. Really exciting times for Ethiopia. Clean and renewable […]

I’m currently reading Peter F. Hamilton’s "Fallen Dragon" (not one of the books but is set in 25th Century) and some technology just grates on me as I know in that future we very likely […]

Did you know that once you grant access to your phone’s camera or microphone to any third-party App, they can use it silently in the background? And do you feel envious about the new iOS […]

There has been so much noise about Jitsi (probably because it has no-account registration needed) but Big Blue Button has been around a lot longer as I recall, and has some really useful features for […]