Managing your self-hosted home lab can get complicated if you are self-hosting a lot of applications. If the URL of the web pages of those services are not bookmarked in your browser, you may forget how many services you have…
If you are even slightly active in the tech world, or if you care about your privacy, you’ve likely heard of the Signal application which lets you message anyone in your contact list completely privately and in an end-to-end encrypted…
The Steam Deck hardware from Valve has achieved significant success, prompting other companies like ASUS to enter the gaming handheld market. What this success demonstrated is that people want a laid-back experience while gaming, a simple easy-to-operate machine that does…
The Raspberry Pi is a highly useful mini-computer that you can use to create a local home server. While you can install Linux distributions on this device, the process is not entirely as simple as flashing an ISO to a…
Flatpak is a really secure and sandboxed packaging format that allows developers to publish their applications without having to worry about the dependencies and the specific versions they have to pull while installing their applications on different Linux distributions. For…
Spotify is perhaps the most popular streaming platform worldwide. On Linux, this platform has some caveats (such as the controversial use of Electron in the client) but it works really fine if you use it in a web browser. However,…
yt-dlp is a very advanced command line-based video and music downloader that was developed by forking the original youtube-dl project. We have covered both of the tools in detail if you want to take a look over how they work. However,…
Ubuntu is one of the most influential Linux distributions at the current time. Many of the other Linux distributions, such as Pop OS, Linux Mint, Peppermint OS, etc. are based on the release of this Linux distribution, which itself bases…
Spotify has a native Linux application so that you can stream music while working on other things simultaneously. In reality, Spotify’s ‘native’ Linux app is actually an Electron wrapper, which essentially runs a web browser in the background. This design…
Linux Mint has always been based upon Ubuntu Linux, and therefore has often been regarded as the ‘Green Ubuntu’. However, the team behind this Linux distribution has been experimenting directly with Debian OS with the release of Linux Mint Debian…