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Category: Blog

How to Browse the Web in Your Linux Terminal With Lynx

2024-08-202024-08-20 Danie
A Terminal window showing how a website renders in plain text. There are various links in green font, and the text of post excerpts is shown below the links.

There is no shortage of feature-rich browsers available today, but most offer largely the same experience. Lynx is a web browser that only displays text, offering a unique and ad-free way to browse the Internet […]

Blogbrowsers, Lynx, retro, technology

Organic Maps — Free, Open-Source, Private, Low Battery mapping app for Hiking, Biking, Trails and Navigation

2024-08-202024-08-20 Danie
Phone app screen showinga countour type map with green shades and countour lines. There is a route highlighted with blue dashes that starts at Rigi and ends Krabel. At the bottom it shows 1 h 55 min - 7.1 km.

Organic Maps is a free Android & iOS offline maps app for travellers, tourists, hikers, drivers, and cyclists based on OpenStreetMap data created by the community. It is a privacy-focused, open-source fork of Maps.me app […]

Blognavigation, opensource, privacy, technology, trails

5 essential Linux terms every new user needs to know

2024-08-192024-08-19 Danie
5 penguins in various positions in the snow. Three are just standing and looking around, whilst one is lying down, and the 5th is cleaning his coat.

It’s important because Linux gives a user lots of options, unlike Windows and macOS, which are essentially one integrated system with just applications that get installed. This is not to say Linux is “complicated” because […]

Bloglinux, opensource, technology

Samsung Galaxy Ring certainly seems to be an improvement on the Oura Ring

2024-08-182024-08-18 Danie
The background looks like a brown wooden fence with vertical slats. In the foreground are three photos, the left one being a hand wearing a silver ring. The middle photo is a close view of a silver ring, with sensors visible on the inside, and two fingers holding it. The right side photo shows a rectangular transparent plastic case, with its lid open. Next to the case lies a silver ring.

It’s good to see the reviews starting to come in on Samsung’s Ring. I’ve long been an Oura Ring user, but in future I’ll be looking at all other options. I certainly don’t like Oura’s […]

Bloghealth, SamsungGalaxyRing, technology

10 obvious things I wish someone told me before I built my first PC

2024-08-172024-08-17 Danie
View of an open PC case showing cards and fan inside with cables connecting everything. A man has his face close to the case, and is using one finger to pull a black cable slightly away from a fan on the motherboard.

PC building may not be rocket science, but it isn’t a walk in the park either, especially for a first-timer. Most of us who have built a few PCs in our time have learnt these […]

BlogDIY, hardware, technology

Looking for a Google Workspace alternative? OnlyOffice DocSpace is ready for the job

2024-08-162024-08-16 Danie
Cartoon style picture with a person sitting at a desk with a screen in front of them. At the far left and right sides are some green pot plants in white pots. Behind the person is a large what looks like rectangular banner, but it represents an open spreadsheet app showing some blurred columns and rows with numbers.

Although this linked article mostly focusses on the hosted cloud side (I suppose that is the equivalent of Google Docs) there is actually a very good open source desktop app available called ONLYOFFICE Desktop Editors […]

Blogalternativeto, officesuite, opensource, technology

You can Turn a Raspberry Pi into a Bluetooth Smart Speaker to Stream music via Bluetooth, Spotify Connect, and AirPlay

2024-08-162024-08-16 Danie
Purple colour background showing a black Raspberry Pi case with the raspberry symbol on the front. There are blue concentric circles appearing to radiate out from the device. On each side is a blue coloured Bluetooth logo.

The author mentions using a Balena Cloud account but I see there is also an openBalena option which is open source. From Balena’s website: “With openBalena, we want to give developers the ability to manage […]

Blogmusic, raspberrypi, streaming, technology

DuckDuckGo AI chat offers privacy, no user data used to train models, and a bare-bones text-only experience

2024-08-162024-08-16 Danie
Head of a white duck wearing a green bow-tie. Above its head is a pop-up window stating GPT-4o mini General purpose AI with high built-in moderation created by OpenAI. In the background a browser search window appears with various prompts and choices.

The chat boasts many standard features, such as answering questions when searching on DuckDuckGo, and an interactive chat window. It offers a bare-bones, text-only experience with no multimedia support. The AI chat also includes a […]

BlogAI, privacy, technology

Cheap DIY open-source button pad can do a lot of what an expensive Stream Deck does

2024-08-142024-08-14 Danie
Black box with a round black know that looks like a volume knob. On top of the box can be seen 20 coloured buttons in a grid of 4 wide and 5 high. The buttons have logos on that depic a fan, a headlight, warning triangle, battery, temperature gauge, etc.

This is going to be way cheaper than buying a Stream Deck, but it will certainly cost a bit of time and effort getting it together. What it will do is allow for up to […]

BlogDIY, opensource, StreamDeck, technology

The best free password managers: Expert tested by ZDNET

2024-08-142024-08-14 Danie
Side close-up view of an open laptop. Above it hovers a hand holding a smartphone, showing a login screen on it.

We use passwords every day to access everything from our social media profiles to our bank accounts — and if you are following good password hygiene rules, you have a lot of complex, unique logins […]

Blogpasswords, security, technology

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