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Winter is already coming with cold, snow or rain and other problems for people. But there's no reason to give up - great things like Black Friday and Christmas are waiting for us! Yes, shopping can't solve all problems and it can even be addictive because
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Why terminal is not legacy and command line skills still matter Many new people in tech think that the terminal is something old-fashioned from the 70s or 80s and should be replaced by a UI with a bunch of flashy buttons. Reality is different, as it often happens. Console is
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Introduction COSMIC is a Linux desktop environment developed by System76, a company known for its high-performance laptops and desktops with Linux preinstalled and the Intel® Management Engine disabled. They started by customizing Ubuntu releases and later added many unique features, making the project self-sustaining. COSMIC is a significant update to
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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
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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
Opensource
In context of fresh Chinese smartphones' telemetry leaks - OnePlus, Xiaomi, Oppo and Realme, the **data privacy concerns are rising again**.
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This setup can be helpful _if_: - part of your or your friend network equipment is broken or badly configured - for developer purposes like debug or microservices development - your VPN plan supports only one connection to server - share wired connection to your smartphone over Wi-Fi
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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
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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.