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Category: Blog

DXOMARK’s Apple iPhone 16 Camera test

2024-11-212024-11-21 Danie
Front view of an Apple iPhone 16 with a blue pattern home screen and no icons. Slightly behind it, to the left, is the rear side of an iPhone 16 showing the two round camera lenses.

Although I no longer use an iPhone, I do always find DXOMARK’s benchmark testing interesting for the various flagship phones. It shows too that a megapixel number is not what you should compare one phone […]

Blogcamera, photography, technology

4 reasons why you should use Docker containers on your PC

2024-11-212024-11-21 Danie
Computer desktop showing a window open. The window title says docker.desktop. It shows search results for "calibre", with some docker image names listed. To the left is a navigation pane showing Containers, Images, Volumes, Builds, Docker Scout, and Extensions.

I use Docker containers exclusively on my servers, but have yet to explore using them on my desktop computer or a Raspberry Pi. I do use Flatpaks quite a bit, and there seems to be […]

Blogcontainers, docker, technology

Listen to the oldest known recording of a human voice from 1860 before they could even play it back

2024-11-202024-11-20 Danie
Top view of a vintage reel-to-reel tape recorder, showing the two reels.

Thomas Edison is often credited with being the first person to record sound. But it was in fact a Frenchman named Edouard-Léon Scott de Martinville who invented sound recording via his phonautograph in 1857 – […]

Blogaudio, technology, vintage

How to update your SSD firmware on Windows

2024-11-202024-11-20 Danie
Close view of a motherboard showing just as SSD drive slotted into it. Text on drive card says V-NAND SSD 980 PRO PCIe 4.0 NVMe M2. Brand name says Samsung.

Software updates are an integral part of modern life, with your computer’s operating system and your smartphone being smart enough to update on its own. But that’s not the case for every piece of electronics, […]

BlogSSD, technology

No solar panels, no wind turbines, but the Aeroleaf WindTree: This tree produces infinite energy in your garden (see EDIT)

2024-11-192024-11-20 Danie
Two wind energy generation units designed to look like trees. The trunks and branches are a white material, and the "leaves" look like green vertical shaped cones.

A new form of wind power generation technology with a focus on aesthetics is sweeping the green energy industry, and it’s expected that Aeroleaf WindTrees will soon be popping up in gardens across the globe […]

Blogenvironment, technology, windpower

A hands-On Review with Session — A Fully Encrypted Chat App

2024-11-182024-11-18 Danie
A hand holdinga phone. Around the phone can be seen graphics depicting two keys connected to a shield in between them. In the background is a green S which is Session's logo.

As with Threema and SimpleX, Session is one of the most secure and private chat apps that you get today (more so than Signal, and way more so than WhatsApp). A lot of this is […]

Blogprivacy, Session, technology

Why and How News Media and Brands should Self-Verify on the Bluesky Social Network

2024-11-182024-11-18 Danie
A search box on Bluesky social network showing the search term "cnn" typed in. A number of results are listed below the search box, with @cnn.com at the top of the list. Other results show @cnnvalencia.bsky.social and @cnnpolitics.bsky.social.

It is actually a free and pretty quick process. Sadly, many brand entities or celebrities do not know how to do it, and often do not even know that it can be done very easily (maybe […]

Blogbluesky, technology, verification

You can actually turn an old phone into a NAS

2024-11-17 Danie
A smartphone showing a black home screen background with some creamy-yellow coloured flowers. There are a few icons on the screen labelled as phone, messages, Play store, camera, and Chrome.

If you’re a tech enthusiast like me, chances are you have an old phone or two lying around unused. While it’s not necessarily the best use for it, you can definitely take one of those […]

Blogenvironment, NAS, technology

eSIM security vs. a physical SIM: An eSIM is safer

2024-11-172024-11-17 Danie
A graphic depicting a hand holding a phone. The phone has a blue ribbon tie down which is secured around it, and on the screen it shows an image of a computer IC chip.

Apart from, the convenience of being able to easily enable an eSIM (without waiting for a physical SIM delivery), the ease of switching SIM profiles when travelling, and not having a physical card that gets […]

BlogeSIM, security, technology

Google is CRIPPLING their Find My Device network with ‘aggregation by default’ setting

2024-11-172024-11-17 Danie
A hand holding a white disc shaped object. The other hand is holding a smartphone which has text on the screen saying Chipolo ONE Point and options for find nearby, play sound, and share device.

From the beginning, Google has prioritized being privacy-conscious with the Find My Device (FMD) network, including delaying the launch until the iPhone gained unknown tracker alerts. Google chose “aggregation by default” to the detriment of […]

Blogfindmydevice, technology, trackers

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