In a previous post I highlighted how Nigeria was limiting ATM withdrawals as a means of forcing people to transact electronically. And this was a great example of how they’ll eventually force us off cash and onto the Central Bank…
An interesting fight of the new against the old, with Caitlin Long’s Custodia Bank here in Wyoming. What’s interesting is that Custodia isn’t like traditional banks with fractional reserves, but has to have full reserves. At least as I remember…
Cointop is a small CLI program written in Go that will allow you to track cryptocurrency prices as well as track the value of what you hodl. And it even presents a chart with an adjustable time period. This is…
Looking into interesting GNU/Linux distributions and I found Ubuntu Christian Edition. Basically it’s Ubuntu LTS 22.04 with Christian software preinstalled, so read that as Bible and reference book software, DNS client for switching to filtered DNS providers, content blocking, church…
Vanilla Gnome Desktop is one of my least favorite desktop environments, but with several extensions enabled it can be nice to use like my Voyager virtual machine. The entire Gnome data collection results are an interesting read, but the extensions…
I’m a big fan of the rolling release Arch Linux distributions as I already run a couple, Endeavour OS and Manjaro. With a rolling release you’re always running the latest software and kernels and you don’t need to ever install…
BunsenLabs Beryllium is based on Debian Bullseye and a continuation of CrunchBang Linux. It uses the OpenBox Window Manager with a very nice dark theme by default, and this makes it a great combination for a fast and low resource…
If I had heard of the Helium Network, it didn’t catch my eye at the time with there being so many cryptocurrency projects. However, the project has advanced quite a bit and actually according to their website has an…
Beyond the adoption in servers now Google is showing support for RISC-V for Android. This is an open source architecture which is free to use in customizing your own chips, and is setting up to revolutionize hardware like open source,…
I have to give praise to Google for taking GNU/Linux and creating ChromeOS enabling inexpensive computers to run their ChromeOS Linux version very well. They’ve even added Android and Linux virtualization so you can run Android and Linux applications that…
I really don’t care for vanilla Gnome Desktop, but the customizations of Voyager OS actually make Gnome pleasant to use. Gnome GSConnect uses KDE Connect for phone integration and once you learn to put applications on their own virtual desktop,…
You might be thinking that you’ll use cash and resist CBDC roll outs (Central Bank Digital Currency), but here’s their plan to force you to make all your transactions record and traceable, just in time for carbon footprint tracking with…
