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Price of Petrol (Gas) too much for real 4×4’ing… Try it virtually with buddies in SnowRunner online!

I solemnly swear to backup my important stuff on World Backup Day, March 31st. Take the pledge!

Most Android and Apple Tablets will connect to large monitors, keyboards, and mice with a USB-C hub for better productivity

Replaceable Batteries Are Coming Back To Phones If The EU Gets Its Way… Apple Will Tell Us This Is Bad For Us

Google may soon add a built-in Bluetooth tracker detection feature in Android

New PerthChat (Australian) Lemmy decentralised social network is an example of where social networks should be

Facebook sued for overstating advertising reach – court expanded the pool of plaintiffs to include more than 2 million small ad buyers

Yet Another Health Myth Busted: You Don’t Need to Worry About Aluminium in Your Deodorant

Linux Tablets: Best Options, Comparison, and Guide

You Can Get Rid of Windows Bloatware With One Command – Use a debloater script to remove all unnecessary programs in Windows 10 and 11

Open Source Metadata Cleaner: Remove Your Traces From Pictures and Documents in Linux

Microsoft is tied to Hundreds of Millions of Dollars in Foreign Bribes, Whistleblower Alleges

Major climate science project wants to crowdsource Android’s GPS and sensor data to improve weather forecasting – Your Metadata has value!

Asahi Linux is reverse-engineering support for Apple Silicon, including M1 Ultra

Google Chrome’s side panel is a new UI for your reading list and bookmarks – What is really needed is Tabs in the side panel though

Berty Messenger for iOS and Android – Zero Trust Open Source Peer-to-Peer Messenger based on IPFS protocol

New EU law could require iMessage and WhatsApp to work with other, smaller platforms – NOT using proprietary, but hopefully interoperable standards instead

Why Telegram became the go-to app for Ukrainians – it is very large groups and broadcasting, more than pure security, but that’s not all

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak: ‘Of all Big Tech, Facebook is No. 1 that I don’t like’

USA AARP-backed social network looks to lure older users from Facebook – Senior Planet Community focuses on shared interests, discourages off-topic political rants

LineageOS 18.1 (Android 11) is now available for the original Google Pixel and Pixel XL

New 7.8″ Onyx Nova Air C Released with Colour E Ink Screen for about $420

Here’s an interesting breakdown on what Linux DEB files are

Apple responds to iOS 15.4 battery drain on iPhones — here’s the advice that probably applies to any OS

Zotero Open Source Research Tool Gets ‘Biggest Upgrade’ in its History

How Collections Work After Latest Kindle Update – Nice Options, But As Usual Confusion Sown By Amazon

How the Backdrop CMS community uses Zulip for its open source chat tool – An alternative to Slack, RocketChat, etc

Docker Punching Holes Through Your VPS Firewall? This Is How I Solved It

3 Ways to Define Docker Volumes Explained in 6 Minutes

13 of the best free open source apps for Android

Touch-sensitive concrete technology could revolutionise security in South Africa – Even replace electric fences

Assistive Tech: Blink your eyes in Morse code to type using a webcam

Here are all the S Pen features and functions on the Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra because no stylus is just intended for plain writing

Universal Control is Apple’s most impressive new feature in years – But yes Apple only, and not for MacBook Airs prior to 2018

Turning the digital crown around makes the Apple Watch more comfortable to wear, especially for left-handers

Android 13 will alert you when an app is draining your phone’s battery in the background

Smartphone LiDAR can test blood, milk, but will likely need more powerful LiDAR

AdGuard Home is an alternative to Pi-hole for network-wide ad and tracker blocking

An introduction to Linux /etc/fstab file, used in Linux to mount the file system at boot time

Android Auto diagnostics tool will help you find out if you are using a faulty USB cable