GadgeteerZA's Blog

How to Find Date and Time Linux OS was Installed – Mine is 2017-06-16 at 14:42

Put sticky notes on your Linux KDE desktop, with alarms

Huawei unveils a 10″ Kindle competitor, the MatePad Paper, intended for Work and Study

AirGuard – Free and Open Source Android app lets users detect Apple AirTag tracking

PCI Express 5: Here’s everything you need to know about the new standard (Spoiler: Peripherals will be expensive for now)

DockSTARTer is a way to make it quick and easy to get up and running with Docker

Deskreen turns any device with a web browser into a secondary screen for your Linux, Windows, or macOS computer

Here’s every Samsung device getting four years of OS updates (five for security patches)

Chipolo’s Find My-Enabled ‘CARD Spot’ is Ideal for Keeping Tabs on a Wallet, but Needs to be Replaced Every 2 Years

Byrna is a proudly South African less-lethal CO2 powered handheld personal security device, with zero license waiting periods

Experimental WebAssembly port of LibreOffice released: Try it in your browser

How to install and use Magisk modules on a rooted Android phone, Finding new modules might look a little different from now on

Use noDRM to Remove DRM from Purchased eBooks for Free

Android 12 Custom ROM List: Unofficially update your Android smartphone if it appears on this list!

MyBroadband tested cheap smartphone add-on lenses — with disappointing results

LibreOffice Working On Advanced Diagram SmartArt Support

KDE vs GNOME: What’s the ‘Ultimate’ Linux Desktop Choice? Beauty is in the Eye of the Beholder…

Find You: Building a stealth AirTag clone – Because AirTags can warn a Thief if they steal your Item?

How to Measure Performance on Your Hosted Linux VPS Server

Install Microsoft Fonts on any Linux distro for better document compatibility with Windows users

Use Existing Desktop Compositor Effects For Screencast Recordings

Internxt is an Open Source Zero-Knowledge Encrypted Cloud Service With Native Linux Client (and macOS / Windows) with a free 10GB

3 steps to start running containers today – Learn how to run two containers in a pod to host a WordPress site

Google Project Zero: Linux programmers do a better job of patching security holes than programmers at Apple, Google, and Microsoft

How to choose a fitness tracker – There’s more to consider beyond specs and price

South Africa’s Home Affairs testing new online system — no more long queues

Here’s what photos look like from a R350 (US$22) digital microscope

Their Bionic Eyes Are Now Obsolete and Unsupported – Today’s Excited Tech Company May Lose Interest Tomorrow

Researcher fully recovers text from pixels: Opaque shapes provide more assurance than pixelation

vokoscreenNG Overview Video – an open source screencast creator for Windows and Linux with mouse halo and magnifier

Bcachefs Might Be Ready For Upstreaming In Linux This Year – ‘The COW filesystem for Linux that won’t eat your data’

EU Data Protection Board probes public sector use of cloud – Privacy: We’ve heard of it. Do you know where your data is?

VokoscreenNG is a powerful open source screencast creator for Linux and Windows, with a magnifying glass and mouse cursor halo

5 Different Free Options to Safely Store Sensitive Files in the Cloud

ISPs, FNOs, ONTs, WiFi, and UPSs — What terminology you should know about getting fibre for your home

ZimaBoard is a hackable single-board server with Intel Apollo Lake, intended as a server alternative to a Raspberry Pi

Grocy is a web-based self-hosted open source groceries and household management solution for your home

My curated list of hundreds of free and open source software applications for homes, business and education

Thula ESV — An electric 4×4 made in South Africa for a silent and vibration-free game viewing experience in the African bush

Facebook exposes ‘god mode’ token that could siphon data through L.O.C. extension, but dev says they are not harvesting that information

Have You Been Holding Your Phone Wrong This Whole Time? The way you hold your phone could be damaging your thumb, pinkie, or forearm nerves