Little bit of antimarketing slash comic relief in these troubled times: XS4NONE – Fourth Class Internet . Started surfing via XS4ALL in 1997, this happened when it was taken over by KPN which at the time was the largest and only Dutch phone company. It’s in Dutch but too funny […]
“But if your life situation or travel plans make that impossible, the privacy-centric Android variant Graphene OS has another purported solution: a duress password and PIN, which will irreversibly wipe the device (along with any installed eSIMs) once entered anywhere where the device credentials are requested. Picture it. You uncomplainingly […]
As a non-corporate alternative OS. Linus decided to fold on the use of AI in development, calling people who are against the use of AI in computing “anti-AI absolutists”: Linus Torvalds to critics of AI coding in Linux: “Fork it. Or just walk away.” Using “a bit of AI” is […]
Bought a four colour 3D printer, assembled it, did some test prints. A moving table along the z-axis seems better than a moving head, it is faster and more stable than my former 1 colour printer. Going to have so much fun with this one, need to learn it’s editing […]
Hi Visitors, Trying to get back at writing posts for this blog, have to say: anything written harvested immediately by AI is a bit of a downer. But somehow this post turned out to be spot on two years after it was written, so onward ‘we’ write. Had some ‘adventures’ […]
You probably got here from verymetal.site which is to be decommisioned in a few weeks. This is my website from my Debian Virtual Private Server. Switched from mere site to server because i want to be able to try some open source apps like Nextcloud and PeerTube in a home […]
Just bought these just to get swanky if not schwifty with detailing already made 3D prints, just painting isn’t enough. Looks like a kid’s toy, very useful for repairing bodged supports or adding LED-lights. My these things go *hard* on Amazon, going to discover what a “humanized button” is.
Installed the latest Fedora Workstation on an external SSD and it is an absolute breeze to use. Have not heard a single pop or crackle in audio, so happy with that. Gnome is very easy to use too, if there is going to be a “year of the Linux desktop” […]