Simplifying Gadgets and Technology, is my passion!
Trail Sense is a tool, and just like any other tool that you bring into the wilderness, it’s essential to have backup equipment and skills. One of its goals is that its features should make […]
Myself and two other ham radio operators have established 3 Meshtastic nodes that will operate 24/7 to help build out more connectivity across Cape Town. We are using license-free 868 MHz radios, so anyone can […]
Bluesky and Mastodon are two social media networks with an aim to provide a decentralized platform for users. As microblogging platforms, they also wanted to pitch themselves as a Twitter alternative (primarily) when they started. […]
DNS servers translate domain names into IP addresses. If they fail, you can’t access websites or find results in a search engine. Diagnosing whether the DNS server is causing problems can be tricky, but the […]
Single monitor setups once dominated most home and office spaces, but computer users looking to enhance their productivity have consistently turned to larger-screened workstations in recent years. For the most part, there are two main […]
An interesting new attack on biometric security has been outlined by a group of researchers from China and the US. PrintListener: Uncovering the Vulnerability of Fingerprint Authentication via the Finger Friction Sound [PDF] proposes a […]
Remember Wunderlist? It was a highly popular and well-made cloud-based to-do/task app that was free to use on all major mobile and desktop platforms, including Linux, until Microsoft acquired it and eventually shut it down. […]
Users of the Firefox web browser may report broken sites to Mozilla. The main idea behind the feature is to help Mozilla address compatibility issues in Firefox. Firefox has a much smaller userbase than the […]
Let me start out by saying how I think this myth became the reality for many… Obviously, a few journalists declared the Fediverse to be complicated, and this got picked up quickly by those who […]
AMD is already quite well known for their really easy overclocking, and their better price point for what you get. My current PC build has had an AMD Ryzen 7 3700X CPU in it for […]
