The best Christmas gifts for Linux and FOSS geeks
Oh, my love, we've had our share of tears Oh, my friend, we've had our hopes and fears Oh, my friends, it's been a long hard year But now it's Christmas Yes, it's Christmas Thank God it's Christmas
Paul Nixer
FOSS enthusiast 📧 paulnixer@disroot.org 🐘 https://mastodon.social/@paulnixer
Top Best 5 Linux Small Form Factor / NUCS PCs with low TDP for IOT, NAS and Multimedia Servers
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/
Escaping The Duopoly: Top Best 5 Linux Smartphones Without Performance and Security Excuses
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
Hardware
Top 5 Best OpenWrt Routers for VPN in 2023
OpenWrt - Wireless Freedom. Why it matters?
Hosting
Intel Developer Cloud Review - Cloud with AI & FPGA Superpowers and Tons of Empty Pages
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.
Kubernetes For The Real Housewives - How To Easily Host Photoprism Photo/Video Gallery on OpenShift
This post is about opportunity: invest small amount of time and get new skills with real application instance that can do some useful tasks for you or your friends: blog, photo gallery, game server etc.
Is Viber a Trojan horse? The mass bans of Ukrainian accounts
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...
How to prevent IPv6 leak with an OpenVPN client on GNU Linux?
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.
How to setup a VPN kill switch on Linux for OpenVPN and WireGuard?
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.
Rust
Rust for beginners: GPX Analyzer - how to find the best GPS tracks in apps like Strava or Nike Run Club
This article was written for beginners and not by a Rust professional, so do not judge it too harshly. All the code is available here. Running is fun and important for your health, so run and don't stop! Why not make your daily run more interesting with Rust,
Ukrainian netizens' daily struggle amidst War and how Telegram, Whatsapp, Viber, Signal played a crucial role for Smartphone users
“Need ammunition, not a ride.” ― Volodymyr Zelensky The Russian invasion left many dead and wounded. The war continues not only on the real battlefield, but also on the digital one. The mobile phone is the weapon: one piece of information can save lives or kill enemies. Especially in occupied territories:
Curious case of IPv6 only hosting
IPv6 was created by The Internet Engineering Task Force 'cause began to worry about IPv4 address exhaustion as a result of startling growth in use.