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I’ve tolerated Google for some of their free services as they do give you control over your data with the option to delete it, opt out, or have it self delete after 90 days. And some of their services like…

After playing around with Snap, I thought I’d take a look at Flatpak with the intention or writing up how to install and use it. These Linux version agnostic application systems with containerization and sandboxing sound good, but are they…

The Raspberry Pi’s can easily be overclocked but this all depends on your cooling solution. If you have a good heatsink, preferably with a fan or two, you can turn up the Pi and improve performance and still keep the…

On several of my Linux operating systems I found that Btop++ wasn’t in the repositories, but was available via Snap package. Consequently, I only recently started using Snap after Ubuntu only included Firefox via Snap package. Snap is an interesting…

Yacy is a promising distributed search engine project. You can run Yacy as a P2P, peer to peer, search engine, or as your very own search engine with web crawler, or as an intranet, local search engine. However, this is…

In my last post on installing Whoogle, I went over why you would want to take control of your privacy from other search engine privacy proxies. Now Whoogle was a proxy for just Google, but enter in the SearX project…

Lately, with DuckDuckGo foregoing their original commitment to privacy allowing Microsoft tracking and saying they would filter results around the Ukraine war, I’ve taken to using other search engines with privacy commitments, qwant.com, swisscows.com, metager.org… (many of these gather their…

When you get your decommissioned server from Ebay or other sources, one of the first tasks you’ll need to do is check and tackle your firmware versions. Keeping up with firmware doesn’t seem to be that important to some people…

Beyond Type II virtualization, like VirtualBox or VMPlayer Workstation where the guest operating system is virtualized with software on the host operating system, there is Type I virtualization, where a lightweight Bare Metal Hypervisor passes system resources directly to the…

If you are a fan of Bitcoin and the possibility of having a means of exchange that can’t be inflated with all the freedom of not being locked into fiat currencies that are purposely devalued, this is the project for…