Is mini PC still relevant? Short answer - yes, but it all depends on your tasks. Mostly because size matters and using full towers as a silver bullet isn't effective. The power consumption of mini PC's is actually better, so they are more suitable for 24/7 load without burning
On November 8, 2018, Jeff Bezos, the multi-billionaire and owner of Amazon, received a message that changed his life: an uncovered affair, a divorce with over $20 billion in exit fees, and a lost reputation. What a significant loss! But we're not judging or even protecting Jeff for his moral
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OpenWrt - Wireless Freedom. Why it matters?
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Nowadays the clouds are very popular as an easy & fast way to make money for big companies. Customers don't need to play with Linux shell from the start, because good cloud provides heavy lifting - want a database, load balancer or monitoring? No problem, go get all of it in few clicks.
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Introduction The advent of the Internet in Iran has been shaped by significant political developments. Prior to the Islamic Revolution in 1979, Iran had made remarkable progress in various sectors, including substantial investments in the industrial field. However, following the revolution, Iran, along with the entire Middle East, experienced significant
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All of us have used Microsoft Office, regardless of our ideologies and beliefs about software licensing. Whether at work, school or on a home computer that came pre-installed with the Microsoft Windows operating system. Those Excel spreadsheets and PowerPoint presentations are everyone's nostalgia. I am sure that many of you
All about *nix without compromises
How does it feel to spend a couple of hours searching for one single file? What if you realize that you have deleted some of the files accidentally, as they were stored in the wrong folder? Experiencing such situations is tragic, but you can avoid them with little effort. Organizing
Once I found out that my Viber app can't sent any message, all messages were frozen with clock icons, which probably means "something in progress". Waiting a day, two days, a week and a bit more didn't bring any news...
You might want to use a VPN, so that you can browse the Internet from another location, but your ISP provides an IPv6 network which could route traffic differently than an ISP with only IPv4 connectivity.
This guide will show you how to set up a manual kill switch for OpenVPN in GNU/Linux, with all details, explained. A VPN firewall (or kill switch) kills network connections that are active when there is no active connection on a given system through the use of IPTables, UFW or Firewalld.
When you first start to dig into the dark realms of computer security, it’s easy to go down a rabbit hole. There are lots of things that could go wrong, at least theoretically. It can be overwhelming, but it doesn’t have to be. Before you spend a lot
Most distributions we use today, including Debian, Fedora, Arch etc, are a modified version of the GNU system with Linux as the kernel. In short, it is GNU (system) + Linux (kernel). By calling it Linux, without giving any credit to the GNU project for the GNU system, we are basically
Perl is a high-level, interpreted, general-purpose programming language developed by Mr Larry Wall. It was written by Mr Larry for himself and his office mates to glue things together while he was working at NASA's Jet Propulsion Labs. The first public release of Perl, version 1.000, was on 18
On the 1st of April, Libera.chat, a popular IRC network, played an April Fool's joke about moving to a Discord server and asked people to join an IRC channel to chat about it. Libera's global notice caught a lot of users for a moment. A_Dragon (A_D@libera/
As unexpected as it may seem, Linus Torvalds has finally joined the Free Software Foundation. 1st of April 2023 has brought good news to the world of Free Software. Mr Linus, creator of the Linux kernel, has joined the Free Software Foundation's ongoing fight to bring completely free software to
Linus Tech Tips and their media house's other Youtube channels were hacked using session tokens with malware disguised as PDF. In a sad turn of events, Linus Media House has been hacked and its Youtube channels temporarily hijacked by a third party. Canadian Youtuber Linus Sebastian told us it was
When I first got a domain name from a European registrar a few years ago, I was absolutely thrilled with the idea of owning a domain name. After a lot of searching. I finally found a registrar who offered free mailboxes with the domain registration. What happens if you already
As a GNU Linux developer, I am used to working with the GNU Linux distribution on a wide range of Linux-compatible hardware. Recently I got a Macbook as a mobile workstation, which gave me the chance to explore the world of macOS and a different hardware architecture, i.e. Apple