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This is not a simple firewall to get started with as it can be a bit of an uphill battle to get all the outgoing connections vetted (if you want to filter those), but I’d […]
Exactly 20 years ago today, on October 20, 2004, the 4.10 “Warty Warthog” release of the Linux distribution with the strange and unfamiliar name Ubuntu debuted under the company’s slogan “Linux for human beings.” For […]
This is designed to work with an existing Jellyfin server, so you should be able to even install and use this alongside any existing Jellyfin mobile apps you have installed. It lists the following additional […]
In the last five months, Winamp, the iconic music player from the recent past, has been on quite a journey. It started with exciting news, which caused great enthusiasm, but sadly, things didn’t turn out […]
There are many cloud services that offer many of these features but they either require registration, or serve adverts, or require payment to do things like background removal, inpainting or outpainting tasks. This app runs […]
Handbrake may well immediately come to mind. This is similar in what it does (conversion based on FFmpeg in the background) but it looks a lot better and easier to use, and has quite a […]
If you’re using Ubuntu and want to improve your system’s performance, especially on machines with limited RAM, ZRAM is a great solution, as it creates a compressed block device in RAM, which helps to manage […]
You can control FMD (and thus your phone) either via SMS or via FMD Server (server can be self-hosted too). You send a command to the phone (e.g. “fmd ring”) and the phone executes it. […]
Over the years, Raspberry Pi boards have taken over the DIY projects landscape and have become synonymous with the term SBC. But despite their standalone nature, you’ll still need an operating system to drive every […]
The MediaTek MT7981B (Filogic 820) SoC is at the heart of the OpenWrt One, paired with the MediaTek MT7976C dual-band WiFi 6 chipset. The device supports WiFi 6 with dual-band capabilities, offering 3×3 and 2×2 […]