European governments are pushing back against Big Tech’s grip on public infrastructure. Denmark announced earlier this year that its Ministry of Digital Affairs was switching from Microsoft to LibreOffice. In more recent news, Switzerland’s data protection authorities declared international cloud services unsuitable
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Let’s be honest. Installing packages from their GitHub repositories can be a pain, especially if you use different Linux distros, BSD and macOS. You have to go to the release pages of the tool’s GitHub repo, look for the appropriate binary file
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Searching on Linux used to be a chore, unless you knew how to work your way around the CLI with find, locate, and grep — fun times!, but today, times have genuinely changed. And I am not talking about fuzzy search options
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Proton has been on a roll lately. The Swiss company keeps expanding its privacy-focused ecosystem with tools that actually work for regular people. Take Lumo AI, for instance, their privacy-respecting AI assistant that doesn’t feed your prompts into some data-hungry training pipeline.
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Valve has been quietly funding an Arm emulation project for seven years now. Pierre-Loup Griffais, who helped build SteamOS and the Steam Deck, told The Verge (paywalled) about it recently. While most of us already knew of their work on Proton, the
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Short-form content has ruined attention spans for many people, including myself. Those little dopamine hits feel good in the moment. But over time, they make you impulsive, easily irritated, and exhausted. Let it control you long enough, and it becomes like any
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