Category: alternatives

Let me be frank. Once upon the time, was a Windows user. Then was happy to have to use OSX for a transition to GNU Linux. But once on GNU Linux (Debian) do not miss neither Windows nor OSX at […]

why are not more companies, schools, governments, banks using GNU Linux? Some might claim because of lack of standardization. but imho that is not true. from a biologists point of view biodiversity is actually a very good thing, as it […]

Paying taxes is no fun Paying taxes double and tripple is even less fun. Because let’s face it: when buying a pair of NEW shoes in Germany the average German Joe already pays at least 19% MwSt. plus the income […]

unable to pair? before feeling like a fool, because it won’t pair: fully charge the device (front led is green) Bluetooth pairing only works if the USB-to-analog mode is off via the switch on the side of the case: then […]

why? because it would be a shame to put all those intel Macs to the trash not particularly big fan of the aluminum bodies (uses loads of energy to make also not healthy to be touched daily) but they surely […]

why is ANYONE ESPECIALLY COMPANIES STILL USING THIS CLOSED SOURCE PIECE OF MASSIVELY RAM & RESOURCES CONSUMING SOFTWARE? MEET JITSI: Jitis Meet is based on an Open standard WebRTC “Jitsi (from Bulgarian: жици — «wires») is a collection of free and […]

it is no news: that at some tasks computer+programs have outperformed humans, that is: at math and remembering things 1997: Deep Blue “AI” outperforms best human player at chess (at those times it was just called “a program”) 2016 (19 […]

Hello data travelers, cudos to the palemoon.org project, an excellent fork of Mozilla Firefox (migration is a breeze, even the hotkeys & shortcuts are the same like ALT+D “select address bar”). strange thing: when starting palemoon via mozo (excellent program! […]

in 2021 wrote this article. “Open Letter to Mozilla – Google’s Browser dominance – is Firefox not listening to user’s needs/requests?” They at least – pretend to. Google says: Thank You Mrs Baker – you successfully destroyed the Firefox browser! […]

src: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1641880448061120513 btw: StarShip fully-stacked maiden flight is said to be this week. So the good part of the Science-Fiction now becomes more science als less fiction.

it is pretty usefull, to see, what programs are running, what program uses how much CPU/RAM/DISK and the overall ressource use of the system. mate-system-monitor does exactly that, and looks pretty while doing it 😀 how to install; # tested […]

have to give a HUGHE praise to the Tor Project! just checked and they DO AN EXCELLENT job at keeping the user private the developers who constantly work to make the system better the thousands of volunteering admins that run […]

both are centralized Messengers meaning: the user is in control of the device + software (to the extend that the user can understand the src) Android-Client “the client” 100% Open Source (Java 70.8% Kotlin 29.1%) iOS-Client 100% Open Source (Swift […]

“know in some countries they believe Telegram is safe. I will show you how safe it is,” he said, before showing a screen in which he appeared to scroll through the Telegram contacts of one Kenyan strategist https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/15/revealed-disinformation-team-jorge-claim-meddling-elections-tal-hanan

mekotronicsplz note: “the-best-technology-does-nothing-without-a-good-human-culture” Yes! Read that correctly, modern SmartPhones are actually full blown computers, so why not use them as such? Now that they have enough (RISC) based computational power that they can replace Desktop and Notebooks, problem: they can […]

easiest and best fire protection: have the cells SPACED apart, so one cell CAN NOT heat up surrounding cells put the battery pack in as-thick-as possible metal box then put plastic bag of sand on top of pack (better than […]

about giada are small, power efficient but powerfull embedded PCs (x86 and ARM, tested the F300, 5 years later: 30x boxes still working perfectly fine, not even a power supply failed!) 😀 some are industrial grade or medical grade (please […]

hardware used: AMD Ryzen 5600G Gigabyte Aorus B550 Elite AX v1 (Rev 1.1) 2x NVMe Kingston SA2000M81000G those are DATACENTER capable NVMes! (at a pretty nice price!) energy meassurements: meassured wattage when PC was idle (doing nothing): GNU Linux Debian […]

ALWAY something positive first: Elon actually cares about truth even if Elon WILL have a hard time accepting some truth X-D keep it up 😀 how Elon reacts to “inconveniant truths” will highly decide, if he will stay true or […]

“the internet”, “wifi”, all “electronic communication via air and wires” As with all new technologies, Einstein was hopeful, that this new technology will be used for good to bring peace by better understanding between nations and individuals alike. Of course […]

something must have gone wrong during a apt update && apt upgrade… the /etc/apt/sources.list suddenly… is empty. GNU Linux Debian 11 (bullseye) default sources.list non-encrypted-transmission deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ bullseye main deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian/ bullseye main deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security bullseye-security main contrib deb-src http://security.debian.org/debian-security […]

(has nothing to do with the drug) “Crystal is a general-purpose, object-oriented programming language, designed and developed by Ary Borenszweig, Juan Wajnerman, Brian Cardiff and more than 300 contributors.[5] With syntax inspired by the language Ruby,[4] it is a compiled […]

Efficiency is good in terms of: saving resources. Same results with less (power and other) input. BUT: good people need to be cultivated, by culture. Culture does not simply mean “gifts on Christmas” and “Lederhosen”. (that’s what it has become, […]

want to make this world a better place? want to support true alternatives? gcc makerz https://my.fsf.org/donate Debian, the still superb miniamlistic universal (runs-everywhere and anywhere) GNU Linux Distribution that is heavily how to documented in this knowledge base 😀 (never […]

… filling out endless repeating Google Captchas about cross walks… traffic lights… busses… bicycles… on lonely friday nights… just to realize… that https://disqus.com is programmed to never ever allow any tor user to login. so much for uncencored free speech on […]

it’s nice what a little arp scanning reveals… hardware vendors (almost) no user ever heard of: the mac 74:4d:28: belongs to https://routerboard.com aka https://mikrotik.com/product/ as well as house automation hardware by https://www.ta.co.at/ was found.

correct if wrong but… checkout this picture, just uploaded to this self-hosted wordpress instance recently: it “suddenly” and without consent it also exists on this server i2.wp.com, the “cool” wordpress CDN, that is supposed to speed up loading time of […]

“Shutdown of Peertube.co.uk” most noted reason: lack of funding lack of staff increasingly harsher rules and regulations “Since it’s inception in August 2019, Peertube UK has grown to host over 2000 users and over 19000 videos. Sadly, the time has […]

let’s face it: the internet has become a gigantic surveillance machine, with hundreds of private companies, trying to collect as much data on the user as possible in order to “predict the market” while also using with AI to analyze […]

Open Source is about enabling users “Amazon, Microsoft, Google” and the White House, want to help make Open Source more secure… https://www.golem.de/news/openssf-150-millionen-us-dollar-sollen-open-source-absichern-2205-165382.html https://www.golem.de/news/openssf-linux-foundation-will-security-praxis-vereinheitlichen-2008-150036.html src of src: “White House OSS Mobilization Plan” 2022: https://openssf.org/blog/2022/05/11/testimony-to-the-us-house-committee-on-science-and-technology/ 2020: “The OpenSSF is a cross-industry collaboration […]