GadgeteerZA's Blog

Can You Charge An Electric Car With A Regular Outlet? Hell Yes! And 220V Is Even Better Than 110V

'Why I'm Never Going Back to Multi-Blade Razors Again' - Any Double-Edged safety razor will provide a similar effect

Euro Truck Simulator 2 finally has an experimental beta of a multiplayer version of the game for up to 8 players, with CB radio comms

Here’s a little-known iPhone trick that you’ll definitely want to remember, to close (and auto close) tabs on Safari browser

Devs of open source Freenode IRC (Internet Relay Chat) have quit and launched Libera Chat - Thousands of users and channels have already migrated

A new study from the University of California shows further evidence that pollution raises the risk of dementia

Facebook Tracks Your iPhone Location Via Photo Uploads Even When EXIF Info Is Stripped Off by Facebook — This Is How To Stop It

Meet CutefishOS: A New Manjaro Community Spin That Looks Like macOS - But You Could Adapt Your Existing Linux Distro Too

MightyScape: One Inkscape Plugin Collection To Rule Them All - There are 194 extension folders with 335 .inx files inside

Hack: Adding Wifi to a non-WiFi Weather Station (and in theory anything else with radio)

New Touchscreen Technology Improves Contrast of E Ink Screens - Will Be Especially Good For Colour E Ink Screens

Unreal Engine 5 Hits Early Access, Linux Still Supported - Games Resolution Will Be Looking Really Realistic

How to install Sqlite Browser on Linux - The Sqlite Browser is a GUI editor for SQLite databases

VW ID.4 EV Survives Baja 1000 Mile Off-Road Race Without Any Repairs

Emulate the Sinclair ZX81 (or ZX80 and ZX Spectrum) home computer with Linux, MacOS, Windows or Raspberry Pi

Gromit-MPX Lets You Draw Anywhere On Linux Desktop Screen

Full Electric Vehicle Registrations Overtake Plugin Hybrids In South Africa - 92 BEV's registered mainly to the super rich for whole of 2020

Lithium-Ion Battery Care Multi-Part Guide - They are used in everything from cell phones to power tools to electric cars

The 25 best educational podcasts for learning what you missed in school - Podcasts are not only music or tech shows

SnowRunner was released on Seam Games and it's working on my Manjaro Linux desktop

A DIY $10 battery replacement in a $133 Fitbit Alta HR got it working fine again

Google rediscovers RSS (Remember Google Reader?): tests new feature to ‘follow’ sites in Chrome on Android

SA Government takes first step toward mapping out electric vehicle strategy for SA - Accepts that global technological shifts could leave SA with stranded vehicle assembly assets

How to install KDE Plasma 5 on Linux... Because you can run more than one desktop environment on Linux on your existing installation

Why I bought an Ambient Weather WS-2902C weather station and where I upload the weather data to

Google released a Tiles API for Wear OS, but it's not a Tile API which is sad

Google Photos improves memory recollections and enhances Cinematic photos from stills

Demeo is the best multiplayer, virtual-reality D&D clone ever made - Issues aside, it already feels like sharing a real-life dice-and-minis table with friends

Remotely manage your Raspberry Pi (or other Linux machine) easily with Cockpit via a web browser - Check logs, running services, run updates, etc

4 essential characteristics of successful APIs - For any external system/app to connect to a server system

Accessible-Coconut – Linux for visually impaired

Mahle has developed an electric motor that uses no rare earth minerals... and can change the parameters of the rotor’s magnetism

Proton GE (for Windows-only games on Steam Games for Linux) gets some big updates, but you may need to remove old Wine prefixes... And this is how to do that

Remember Ubuntu Tweaks? Now there's Ubuntu First Steps that accesses hidden tweaks on Ubuntu Linux with some good Privacy options

Our complicated relationship with social media - Stuckness is struggling to explain why you’re still part of the network that’s making you frustrated, anxious, unhappy or bored

The Decentralized Web of Hate - How and Why Hate Groups Started Using Peer-2-Peer Technology - But P2P Can Be Used For Positive Social Impact Too

System76’s Launch configurable mechanical keyboard is fully open source hardware and firmware for Linux, MacOS and Windows... At a price

Enterprises increasingly relying on open source software - Including 85% of large enterprise respondents who have moved databases and applications to cloud services

Standard Ebooks is a volunteer-driven project that produces new editions of public domain ebooks that are lovingly formatted, open source, free of copyright restrictions, and free of cost

South Africa Has One Of The Highest Ratios Of Public EV Chargers To EVs In The World... Because There Are So Very Few EVs!

How To Use Nmap (Network Mapper) – A Comprehensive Guide: Basics To Advanced

Neural implant lets paralysed person type by imagining writing (vs just cursor control) - A paralysed individual hit 90 characters per minute with 99% accuracy