Privacy-focused services like encrypted email, secure messaging, and VPNs are growing in importance with each passing day. We live in an era where dissent is crushed and corporations treat user data like chips on a poker table. Your browsing habits, location data,
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Transferring large files via typical USB thumb drives is a pain. Try it with a 20 GB file and it will take an hour just for copying the files. That’s why external, portable SSDs are the new normal these days, especially when
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There are numerous popular browser-based free VPNs. FreeVPN is one such extension that was recently caught to be spying on its users. As the saying goes, if it’s free, you are the product. Google Verified FreeVPN Caught Red-handed Spying on its Users
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Once upon a time, Nautilus allowed accessing the root directory from ‘Other locations’ option in the sidebar. This tiny but useful option has disappeared in the recent versions. But you can still access root folder in Nautilus by typing / in the
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Debian 13, codenamed Trixie, is finally available now. It features GNOME 48 among other changes. The next big release should be Linux Mint 22.2 followed by Fedora 43 and Ubuntu 25.10 in October. Debian 13 “Trixie” Released: What’s New in the Latest
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There’s something special about playing co-op games with your friends. If done right, it can create unbreakable bonds that last forever. But it can also weed out the fake ones who steal your loot while you’re downed and conveniently “forget” to revive
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You own nothing in this digital age. Your ebooks, your games, your movies. Nothing belongs to you if you rely on a third-party streaming/storage/service provider. In a bizarre turn of events, Amazon Web Services deleted the 10-year old account of an open
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I am helping my child learn coding. No, not the new born, but “my favorite child”, Ushika, who is now four years old. I have to call her “my favorite child” to avoid any backlash we could get as we divide our
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As people who live in the information age, we often have to give up our privacy to use collaboration tools that have no business having access to such invasive levels of PII, all in the name of “serving relevant ads“. Yep, I
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I know that there is pretty extensive online documentation from Ubuntu available for free. But extensive can also be overwhelming too. Probably that’s the reason why there is a new book on Ubuntu, unsurprisingly called “The Ultimate Ubuntu Handbook” and it gives
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