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The Ultrahuman Ring Air: The best smart ring for fitness junkies beats the Oura in 4 major ways

2024-03-282024-03-28 Danie
Fingers of a hand, holding a dark coloured ring. In the background is a blurry view of a city.

The Ultrahuman Ring Air is a subscription-free smart ring with AI health insights I have never seen before and data that rivals Oura’s. It is really great to see masses of new entrants to the […]

Blogfitness, smartring, technology

This YouTuber shows off running Steam games on a Raspberry Pi 5

2024-03-282024-03-28 Danie
Raspberry Pi computer box in front of a TV

As you might expect, you’re not going to be getting Baldur’s Gate 3 running on max settings on a Raspberry Pi 5. However, the actual results were still pretty impressive. Simple 2D games like Brotato […]

Bloggaming, raspberrypi, technology

High Level Steps to Migrate my Docker Hosting to a Different Hosting Service

2024-03-242024-03-24 Danie
Hosting migration

The planning took a lot longer than the actual move time, and the downtime for my main blog was really only around 10 minutes. But this has inspired me to also document some of the […]

Blogdocker, hosting, migration, technology

10 Things You Probably Didn’t Know You Could do With Nano Editor

2024-03-242024-03-24 Danie
Illustration depicting a command line terminal with a prompt

OK, you probably do know at least one or two of these, but I’ve added the auto backup, line numbers, mouse support, and scroll bar to an alias for every time I start up nano. […]

Bloglinux, nano, opensource, technology

Can you safely revive a dead lithium-ion battery? Yes – here’s how

2024-03-222024-03-22 Danie
Four batteries standing vertically, placed next to each other. The top halves are yellow and the bottom halves are silver.

More and more devices now come kitted out with rechargeable lithium-ion batteries — you know, the ones that look like the old-style AA or C cell batteries, but are a slightly different size. The most […]

Blogbatteries, technology

Some Downtime Due to Migration of Hosting

2024-03-202024-03-20 Danie
Hosting migration

Periodically I love a serious challenge… My website at https://gadgeteer.co.za as well as photos site etc may experience intermittent download from 20th to 21st March 2024 as I migrate my hosting to a new hosting […]

Site Notice, Blogsiteupdate, technology

Uncapped Internet at R99pm on a meshed network for South African low-income communities

2024-03-202024-03-20 Danie
Two low-income homes with four satellite receiving dishes on top for entertainment services. A man is standing on the roof of one home, and affixing a white dome to the top of a pole that is mounted on the side of the home.

Maintaining cabled infrastructure in many informal areas is a nightmare (costly to deploy, dangerous, and sometimes damaged/stolen) so a meshed network does really solve this type of challenge, where each core node relays off the […]

Blogmeshnetworks, southafrica, technology

Lossless Audio Does Not Sound Better Than MP3 To Most People

2024-03-182024-03-18 Danie
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Apple, Amazon, and Tidal offer “lossless audio,” claiming users can “hear the exact same thing” an artist created in the studio. However, it’s a myth that lossless audio objectively sounds better than MP3, and most […]

Blogmusic, myths, technology

Oh, Zot! Nomadic Identity is Coming to ActivityPub: This could change the Fediverse forever

2024-03-182024-03-18 Danie
Piece of paper in background covered in pencilled notes and calculations. In the centre is a black rectangle with a white lightning bolt through it. Bottom right is the head and shoulders of a man wearing glasses and wearing a checked shirt. Top left is a symbol with the words ActivityPub Rocks. To the top right is a symbol with the words Hubzilla rules.

Years before there was Mastodon and even ActivityPub, there was Mike Macgirvin who created the Zot protocol, which Hubzilla runs on. One of Hubzilla’s most amazing features (apart from also integrating with Activity and the […]

Blogactivitypub, nomadicidentity, socialnetworks, technology

This is the most completely authentic 737 home flight simulator I’ve seen to date

2024-03-172024-03-17 Danie
A flight simulator that looks exactly like an authentic 737 flight cabin

This simulator even has an authentic looking cabin door that you enter through, and a seat belt for the pilot seat. A bit of a glitch with the sim software itself, is where the plane […]

1 CommentBloggaming, simulator, technology

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