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Category: Blog

The RingConn Gen 2 may be a good subscription-free alternative to the Oura ring

2025-03-222025-03-22 Danie
A person holds a sleek, modern smart ring in their hand, with a charging case softly blurred in the background.

A battery life of 10 to 12 days is pretty good (in reality it may only get 7 days), with a battery charging case providing an additional 150 days of power! But that is still […]

Bloghealth, smartring, technology

WeatherSpark offers detailed reports of the typical weather for 145,479 locations worldwide

2025-03-222025-03-22 Danie
A world map displaying various weather data points marked by colorful icons, representing global climate conditions.

The Weather Year Round Anywhere on Earth. Climate reports with the weather by month, day, even hour. Great for event and trip planning! This site does not give actual daily weather reports, but gives a […]

Blogtechnology, weather

8 Tiny Utilities to Make Your Linux Experience Even Better

2025-03-202025-03-20 Danie
A young person sits in front of a computer, focused on coding displayed on the screen, with a calm workspace in the background.

Some quite useful utilities here to: I have noticed though on KDE that there is a Clipboards Content icon by default on the toolbar, and you can quickly copy a few different snippets of text, […]

Bloglinux, technology

An NVMe drive is giving me 700% faster performance than my previous SATA SSD drive

2025-03-202025-03-20 Danie
Benchmark results for a Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus 500GB, showing read/write speeds in MB/s for various tests in KDiskMark.

I just upgraded my main boot drive on my Linux desktop, from a 120 GB SATA SSD drive to a 500 GB NVMe SSD drive. Whilst it is true the Crucial CT120BX100SSD1 SSD was not […]

Bloghardware, NVMe, SSD, technology

Use FilePizza App to Send Someone a File Without Using Any Cloud Storage

2025-03-202025-03-20 Danie
A web page for FilePizza featuring a pizza with an upward arrow, promoting peer-to-peer file transfers with a "Drop a file to get started" button.

“FilePizza isn’t the only application like this. There’s p2pfileshare.com and sharedrop.io, to name a couple. FilePizza stands out because of the simplicity—just share a file and copy the URL—and because it has a unique URL. […]

Blogfilesharing, technology

Time to ditch US tech for homegrown options, says Dutch parliament

2025-03-192025-03-19 Danie
A microchip displayed on a circuit board, featuring the red, white, and blue colours of the Netherlands flag.

“The motions were submitted and all passed yesterday during a discussion in the Netherlands’ House of Representatives on concerns about government data being shipped overseas. While varied, they all center on the theme of calling […]

Blogcloudservices, digitalsovereignty, outsourcing, technology

Photography Sim Games are now a Thing too

2025-03-192025-03-19 Danie
Sunset over calm waters framed by dark silhouettes of trees, creating a tranquil beach scene.

I was just watching demos of two photography sim games, supposedly launching officially in 2025. But what stood out for me was that both involve walking through the wilderness in some really stunning scenery, and […]

Bloggaming, photogrpahy, technology

GIMP 3’s New Features Make the Best Free and Open Source Image Editor Even Better

2025-03-192025-03-19 Danie
Screenshot of GIMP 3.0.0 settings menu, featuring options for theme, icon scaling, font scaling, and additional customizations.

“Among the biggest changes is nondestructive filters. Previously applying filters, such as blurs, was final—you could use the undo function to get back to a pre-filtered state, but you couldn’t simply edit or remove the […]

BlogGIMP, opensource, technology

PeerTube 7.1 Expands Podcast 2.0 and Apple Podcast Support

2025-03-192025-03-19 Danie
PeerTube logo featuring a playful octopus, film strip design, and an orange gradient background, highlighting decentralised video sharing.

For those who don’t know PeerTube, it is an open source decentralised alternative to YouTube with many of the same features. But importantly it also integrates with the Fediverse so anyone from Mastodon, Hubzilla, Friendica, […]

Blogdecentralised, opensource, Peertube, technology

These 6 myths about gaming on Linux just aren’t true (except one)

2025-03-182025-03-18 Danie
A person holding a handheld gaming device displaying a library of games, featuring titles like "Half-Life 2" and a vibrant interface.

For many (like myself) I had to dual boot into Linux years ago mainly because my higher end games did not work on Linux. As far as word processing and most other things, those all […]

Bloggaming, linux, technology

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