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This XDA Reporter replaced their monitors with XREAL smart glasses for a full week
Character AI allows you to create your own chatbot or to converse with many others, including famous ‘personalities’
French government recommends against using foreign chat apps and use open source Olvid instead
The Raspberry Pi 5 Can Use External Graphics Cards Now Such As The AMD RX 460
Vivlio builds an EU-based bookstore-agnostic e-book platform with open-source DRM
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This XDA Reporter replaced their monitors with XREAL smart glasses for a full week

2023-12-022023-12-02 Danie
Two pairs of black glasses resting on the open palm of a hand

Not made by Meta = Tick. The price though is almost the cost of three monitors… These may not be full time permanent replacements for monitors, but they are great for portable use, and could […]

Leave a commentBlogAR, glasses, smartglasses, technology

Character AI allows you to create your own chatbot or to converse with many others, including famous ‘personalities’

2023-12-022023-12-02 Danie
Phone screen showing titles "Bring anyone to life" and "Create a character" with an avatar of a your girl and the name Aya Raven below it.

Character AI says it is bringing to life the science-fiction dream of open-ended conversations and collaborations with computers. Their dialogue agents are powered by their own proprietary technology based on large language models (so not […]

Leave a commentBlogchatbot, entertainment, technology

French government recommends against using foreign chat apps and use open source Olvid instead

2023-12-012023-12-02 Danie
French flag flying on a flag pole with blue sky behind it

Well, this is interesting! The move by France in this direction is not new at all as in 2018 they announced they were moving towards using Matrix and Riot to replace WhatsApp and Telegram, and […]

Leave a commentBlogFrance, Olvid, opensource, privacy, technology

The Raspberry Pi 5 Can Use External Graphics Cards Now Such As The AMD RX 460

2023-12-012023-12-01 Danie
Light brown wood background with an AMD grapgics card, and a Raspberry Pi computer, resting on it.

The Raspberry Pi line is full of capable compact computers, but they’ve never been the strongest in the bunch when it comes to graphical output. Nor have they been particularly expandable in that regard. However, […]

Leave a commentBlogopensource, raspberrypi, technology

Vivlio builds an EU-based bookstore-agnostic e-book platform with open-source DRM

2023-11-302023-11-30 Danie
An e-book reader lying on a multi-coloured background. The reader shows some black and white book titles in tiles on its front page.

Vivlio has been building an open European alternative to the Kindle and Kobo e-readers. And it proves that you can compete with tech giants with a team of 35 as long as you have a […]

Leave a commentBlogereader, reading, technology, Vivlio

38 new features and improvements for Proton Mail and Calendar: Includes web mail content searching finally

2023-11-282023-11-28 Danie
Phone screen showing title All Mail at top, with listed e-mail messages in rows below. One shows the title Latest Proton Mail updates from Proton (official)

“Rather than focusing on big ticket items, we compiled a list of requests from Proton community members on how Proton Mail can make your life easier. This involved aggregating statistics from Reddit, Twitter, and UserVoice, […]

Leave a commentBlogprivacy, protonmail, technology

Security Bolts Finally Gave Me and My Bike Peace of Mind

2023-11-282023-11-28 Danie
Five Hexlox nuts facing the camera and showing red indents, and above them is a tool with a loop in which is used to unlock the nuts

There are some more modern solutions to securing your bike’s parts together: These are actually great low tech solutions to hopefully preventing your bike from being stolen (rather than trying to track it after it […]

Leave a commentBlogantitheft, bicycle, cycling, technology

How to Move Your Linux home Directory to Another Drive

2023-11-272023-11-27 Danie
Pinkish coloured Linux desktop screen showing a home icon on the screen, and along the left side vertically are icons for Firefox browser, Thunderbird mail, etc.

If you’re setting up a new machine or adding a hard drive to an existing one, you may want to have your home directory on a different drive than the default location. A popular configuration […]

Leave a commentBloglinux, technology

SimpleX Chat (world’s most private?) now connects desktop app with mobile app via quantum resistant protocol

2023-11-262023-11-26 Danie
SimpleX desktop app screen showing a list of chats on the left side, with an open chat conversation open in a pane to the right.

It sounds like a simple thing to do, but SimpleX is not a cloud based hosting, nor does it even have a common profile that anyone can just follow or connect to. Every friend being […]

Leave a commentBlogprivacy, SimpleX, technology

The Galaxy S23 Ultra is an excellent camera but a GCam port could make some photos even better

2023-11-262023-11-26 Danie
Close view of the camera lenses on the rear of a Samsung Galaxy 23 Ultra phone, with the pen-side of a S-pen showing in the centre, and the title on the left side stating "Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra 200MP".

It is not always a given that the GCam port (from the Pixel camera app) is actually always better than the stock S23 Ultra app, for example, some say the 10x optical zoom, and the […]

Leave a commentBlogGCam, hacks, photography, technology

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