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Is it normal for a person to "feel" less as they get older?
I remember experiencing the world much more vividly when I was a little boy....
why did you switch?
Hey everyone,...
What's a quote that has stuck with you for your whole life?
I always loved browsing such posts on reddit, so thought I should make one on lemmy too...
Open Konsole named Profiles, with own identification and a custom command, using a keyboard shortcut (youtu.be)
This solves a problem I had with wanting to quickly start up a Distrobox container using a shortcut key, but also being able to differentiate it visually from my normal Konsole terminal screen I’d use on Manjaro Linux. It is extremely quick and the named Konsole Profile has a different colour as well as a different window...
Share your favorite Linux Desktop Environment
For me its KDE.
YSK: Flossing your teeth is only uncomfortable when your gums are unhealthy
Healthy gums don’t bleed, and are not painful to floss at all....
Is Systemd that bad afterall?
SystemD is blamed for long boot times and being heavy and bloated on resources. I tried OpenRC and Runit on real hardware (Ryzen 5000-series laptop) for week each and saw only 1 second faster boot time....
Why You Should Use Bionic Reading in Chrome (or Any Browser): An extension to highlight the most important parts of words (www.howtogeek.com)
Bionic Reading is a new way of reading text that uses a patented algorithm to highlight the most important parts of words, making it easier and faster to read. The method was developed by a German software developer named Renato Cukar, who was inspired by the way the human eye reads text....
Berty Messenger for iOS and Android - Zero Trust Open Source Peer-to-Peer Messenger based on IPFS protocol (berty.tech)
** Now in Android and iOS app stores **...
EasyEffects for Linux - An open source audio effects application for recording audio (github.com)
This application used to be called PulseEffects but it was renamed to EasyEffects after we started to use GTK4 and replaced GStreamer by native PipeWire filters....
Apple to launch Independent Repair Provider program in more than 200 countries including South Africa (mashable.com)
The program, which gives third-party repair providers access to genuine Apple parts, tools, repair manuals and diagnostics, was initially lunched in the U.S. in 2019, and expanded to Europe and Canada in 2020. This year, it will be available in more than 200 countries — “nearly” every country where Apple products are sold,...
6 open source alternatives for Google Calendar - Calendars are the easiest service to migrate elsewhere (opensource.com)
Much like e-mail, calendaring has long established open protocols (like we DON’T have for social media) across services such as WebDAV, ics, etc. So it is usually quite easy to export/import a calendar elsewhere, or even to link to one or more remote calendars....
How to set up your own private e-mail server at home with a Raspberry Pi Server using fully free and open source Citadel (pimylifeup.com)
Many other guides dive deep into 10 plus pages of how to set up such a service with Dovecot, Postfix and a web server all from the command line, but this one is a lot simpler because most of what you need is inside Citadel. Citadel also has calendar, Contacts, Notes, Tasks and chat rooms so can be a good alternative to Google or...
Dozens of Huawei and Honor devices with Kirin processors can now be bootloader unlocked which can allow custom ROMs and kernels to be installed (www.xda-developers.com)
Defeating Huawei’s draconian security measures wasn’t an easy task, but a developer named Andrey Smirnoff actually managed to decipher the bootloader unlock code generation algorithm for devices that are based on HiSilicon Kirin 960/659/655 chipsets. Apart from that, what makes PotatoNV possible is a low-level bootloader...
The most effortless way to mirror your iOS screen to Linux is with RPiPlay or 5KPlayer and no iOS apps required (hubzilla.gadgeteer.co.za)
I sometimes show a mobile screen when I record videos and have been looking for something as easy to use as Android has through their emulator. I tried a few apps but most were quite clunky, and I have now got it down to RPiPlay (Linux desktops or for a Raspberry Pi) or installing the Windows version of 5KPlayer (installs and...
Monash University research finds Bing and Ecosia delivered substantially more professionally produced news in the top 50 results compared with Google (www.theguardian.com)
The director of the Climate Change Communication Research Hub, Associate Professor David Holmes, said the results demonstrated the importance of news media to search engines, with the top search terms clearly reflecting that people were trying to learn more about current affairs topics. “It is in the interests of search...
This DIY project turns an iPod into a click wheel-powered Spotify player using a Raspberry Pi Zero (www.theverge.com)
Classic iPods have their fans, but they’re not built for the modern age of music streaming — except for this one, which has been turned into a Spotify player by tinkerer Guy Dupont. While it may look like an iPod from the outside, inside, it’s got a Raspberry Pi loaded with software custom-built by Dupont to interface with...
Is an open secure instant messaging protocol not what is needed to allow any messaging app to communicate with any other, and to break the monopoly of Big Tech? (en.wikipedia.org)
The reason why we as consumers get held to ransom by Big Tech is because they are the one’s who create walled gardens of their apps to ensure it is very difficult to leave their service and to maintain any communication with your friends or family who stay behind. They count on that sticky network effect to hold you in place....
My categorised list with hundreds of open source alternatives to proprietary software has been updated with even more options (gadgeteer.co.za)
My list is separated into 30 separate categories to help find your area of interest whether it is networking, security, messengers, video editing, education, etc. It is also backed up to the Wayback Machine for future reference....
Free Cross-Platform Sweet Home 3D Software For DIY Interior Home Design Visualisation (youtu.be)
This open source software allows you to fairly easily model your home (or other buildings) to help you visualise interior home design changes and to export to both photorealistic stills and videos. I’ve used it twice for alterations to our house and I show how I’ve used it....