Linux
The default approach with routing all traffic over VPN can hit user experience sometimes. If user need to do some tasks with application which requires low traffic or speed - it can be done with cheap VPN, but _comfortable web browsing will be definitely broken_.
Sometimes we need to test something on another machine. It can be an application, script, service, whatever. Of course, for a professional a QA testing case it is better to buy hardware or cloud resources. Small tasks aren't always worth a developer's time to register and
Multiboot
Why GRUB GRUB is the standard Linux bootloader for decades, and also supports other operating systems. Ventoy, another popular Open Source tool made by Chinese developer Hailong Sun, does the job really straightforward and doesn't need any dancing with configs. So, why do we still need Grub? There
Linux
For Linux Anniversary: The Best Quotes of Linus Torvalds: Source Code, Money And Most Important Things Today Linus Torvalds doesn't need any promotion anymore - he's the popular programmer, charismatic leader in Linux community and cult figure in IT. Yes, Linus has no such popularity like
Fun
The next commands will, probably, not do something very useful, but we all need to relax sometimes and share cool stuff with friends, kids or just random people around. Surprisingly, some software I'm trying to highlight here is complex and has taken a lot of the authors time.
NetworkManager is a top Linux application, available in each major Linux distributions and heavily used on laptops, desktops, and since Pinephone and Librem 5 - on Linux phones too. Networking and user privacy are important more than ever, and there are some questions related to the last. MAC address randomization
Privacy
Why Brave Despite scandals with affiliate links and leaked Tor domains to public DNS, Brave still develop very cool security features not available in Chrome and Edge, owned by corporate giants with radically different financing. Brave earn money in the crypto business, but all this stuff can be disabled or
FFmpeg
This is an update to the previous post Best FFmpeg commands Full support available since FFmpeg v5.1 LTS. Build dependencies These libraries should be compiled and installed: * libjxl - https://github.com/libjxl/libjxl * aom - https://aomedia.googlesource.com/aom Then FFmpeg should be compiled with options --enable-libjxl
FFmpeg
Why FFmpeg worth to learn FFmpeg is ... well, there's no sense in a classical introduction. This is the Swiss knife for multimedia. Big, solid and popular project without real competitors, also used in many applications. Of course, a lot of applications available to work with multimedia, from free
Book
Non-DRM e-books matters No sense to debate how important is reading in modern world: learning new skills and life patterns, live news, entertainment, travel and many more. Ernest Hemingway once said: "There is no friend as loyal as a book". Amazon and many other stores are trying to
Communication
Privacy matters Whatsapp, most popular messenger on Earth with more than two billions users; Apple iMessage, very popular in the USA; and an army of another proprietary messengers heavily relying on smartphones and phone numbers. Whatsapp supports web version only like mobile companion or "extension", login isn'
Shell
Why time matters Have you thought how many times you use your file manager? Yeah, it's very comfortable when you need to work with photos, videos or any content suitable for visualization. Some people are scared to use console 'cause it's "too hard"