Category Tech

Star64 RISC-V Single-Board PC Launches April 4 for $70 and Up

We’re starting to get open source instruction set RISC-V boards which shows great promise for a more open hardware format and possibly cheaper boards with more manufacturers competing. ARM is also based on reduced instruction set computer architecture, but involves…

Run Your Own VPN

With the RESTRICT Act possibly impacting the use of VPNs, mainly commercial vendors, you can run your own for just a couple dollars a month from a VPS provider being cheaper than most of the commercial vendors. The downsides are…

Proxmox 7.4 With New Dark Mode and Linux Kernel 6.2

Welcome to the new dark mode on Proxmox, a great open source server virtualization OS to allow you to run multiple virtual servers and dvide up the hardware turning a single hardware server into multiple virtualized servers. Proxmox is a…

Stop Your Android, IOS From SPYING On You!

I already had developer mode turned on, but I didn’t know about the sensors toggle you can add to your drop down menu. I already turn off GPS/location when not using maps, but this is even better. And some of…

Bye Bye Ubuntu

There used to be a time when Ubuntu was a good OS because it just worked, but it’s not the most stable distribution any longer. I had two servers break on updates (now Debian servers), and I tried the upgrade…