I got tired of Samsung’s OneUI interface, and have moved back to Baldphone, a very simplistic home screen that is designed for old folks like me. It has everything though,: even, if you want, its own easier replacements for the main apps needed to interface with a phone. (I don’t use most of those.) Completely …
zeldman (who these days works for Automattic) writes: 1,500 people. 70 countries. No office. Millions of documented words. Most companies would call this chaos. We call it Tuesday. Here’s how #Automattic turned distributed work into a communication culture that actually scales. When you start to read the linked article, though, you learn Quick coordination happens …
After a power outage lasting for several hours, while the electric company installed some new high tension wires to the village, our refrigerator stopped working. Since we are in a period of religious holidays, I called the company responsible for servicing Sharp products quickly, but they could only give me a date for October 16. …
On my morning walk listened to the two recent episodes from Tech Won’t Save Us, “How the US Weaponizes Tech in the Middle East” and “The Geopolitical Fight Over Huawei” both of which are really interesting. One of my thoughts is that we are just the end users of terminals connected to gargantuan telecommunications infrastructures …
Server Eventually I’m using an old EEEPC netbook for a new home server. It’s many years old, but the battery life is still excellent, so it’s less likely to suffer the kind of shocks that rendered my previous server disk unbootable. I’ve been spending hours and days with this server project, but it’s hard to …
2022-02-02 22:22 – Wow that’s quite a time and date! Not intentional, I swear. Today was also my brother’s birthday, and the day my eldest son moved to his new house. Our own house suddenly got bigger since they were moving out from the part that we divided off to rent out. I think we’re …
On my home server I have, till now, Hubzilla and WordPress. Hubzilla is a good all-round piece of software that does various things, though not perfectly: it is an activity-hub connected social network, a place to store photo albums and files; a content management system for blogs, and a place where you can make static …
My son has given me a new computer; one which he purchased himself for coding a couple of years ago. It’s Thinkpad T470P, which comes with a good 7th generation i7-7000HQ processor, 32GB of RAM and an SSD. So it’s the most powerful computer I’ve had. It has one flaw, which prevents him from just …
The first computer I owned was the Osborne 1, though the one I purchased was already several years old and a bit old fashioned by that time – probably it was in the late 1980s. I even bought a second model for parts. The Osborne 1 was the world’s first truly portable computer. It was …
I was just reading a review of the Logitech G710+ mechanical gaming keyboard. I was given this as a gift some time ago by my son when he bought for himself a still more expensive keyboard. In general I’m quite happy with the keyboard, though I can’t say that the typing experience is amazingly better …