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12 Aug 2022 5 minute read 1 comment LateToTheParty $0.49
Co-published on Read.cash. In less than 2 weeks, the Steam Deck will have officially reached its half-year milestone. Back in May, I wrote about some of Linux gaming's most significant achievements as well as its shortcomings. At that time, about 2,5...
3 Aug 2022 2 minute read 0 comments GG-Off $0.15
History and origins of popular UNIX-like systems Linus Torvalds started Linux (then intended to be named Freax, for freedom, freak, and the X of UNIX – reminiscent from the older phreax of phone freaks, the hackers' grandparents) in the early 90's...
1 Aug 2022 1 minute read 0 comments lingy $0.02
First of all, I warn you that this text will be much shorter than the previous one, but in the next one it will be After seeing the previous article on how the print function works, you must have thought that there is no way to simplify it any furth...
6 May 2022 3 minute read 0 comments LateToTheParty $0.06
Co-published on Read.cash. In April 2021, I made a blog post on the state of Linux gaming. At that time, the Linux marketshare on Steam still hovered below 1%. While the compatibility layer, Proton, made Linux gaming more palatable than in years' pas...
28 Mar 2022 1 minute read 30 comments I_g_o_r $0.60
In this post we consider how to turn your old laptop into a security monitoring device. In the example below an old Asus EEE PC (1st generation) is used. This laptop does not have an internal web camera, therefore an external usb webcam will be...
8 Mar 2022 4 minute read 0 comments LateToTheParty $0.11
Co-published on Read.cash. Intro: Valve's Steam Deck Launches to Good-ish Reviews It took a while, but Valve finally began shipping its PC handheld device, the Steam Deck, since February 25. When tech YouTuber channels like Linus Tech Tips, Gamers Ne...
27 Feb 2022 15 minute read 2 comments lingy $0.01
Follow me on Odysee I was reading a text that I found on a portal on the Gopher network and I thought "hey, this is interesting, I'll take it to the people at Odysee". So I started translating the texts little by little and making slight modification...
19 Feb 2022 1 minute read 1 comment R0bin $0.03
Recently I saw in a video how someone used the command sudo !! to execute the previous command with root rights.I've been using Linux for a long time, but irregularly, so I'm not familiar with all the tricks, and this one was definitely new to me. I...
17 Feb 2022 2 minute read 4 comments Debesh Choudhury $0.03
In the year 1999, I decided to try GNU/Linux operating system for my desktop computer. It was one of the most remarkable experiments I did in my computing life. Then, I had applied for a Japanese Government Scholarship which I received. I was in Toky...
16 Feb 2022 4 minute read 0 comments LateToTheParty $0.21
Co-published on Read.cash. Introduction We are just 10 days away until the first batches of Valve's Steam Deck ship out and the embargo lifts. The console-like PC handheld really grabbed my attention thanks to its impressive specs for its form factor...
