5 reasons to switch to Firefox right now
Mozilla Firefox was one of the applications that opened my eyes to open source. It wasn’t by any means the tipping point, but it was part of a larger cumulative effect of several open source applications grabbing my attention, which ultimately resulted in me switching to Linux, and never looking back. Since switching to Firefox, which occurred well before I consciously changed to open source, I’ve been an avid Firefox...
Build your website with Jekyll
Static website generators and JAMStack have taken off in recent years. And with good reason. There is no need for complex backends with only static HTML, CSS, and Javascript to serve. Not having backends means better security, lower operational overhead, and cheaper hosting. A win-win-win! read more Powered by...
The iOS 15 Privacy Settings You Should Change Right Now
Apple’s latest software update has a bunch of new security features. Here’s how to put them to use. Powered by WPeMatico
My favorite LibreOffice productivity tips
LibreOffice is my productivity application of choice. It’s one of the most potent reasons for recommending Linux distributions to educators and students, whether PK-12 or higher education. Now that the school year is upon us, I thought I would recommend some LibreOffice shortcuts and tips that might save you valuable time. Work faster with keyboard shortcuts I use a lot of keyboard shortcuts. Here are the most common shortcuts...
Add storage with LVM
Logical Volume Manager (LVM) allows for a layer of abstraction between the operating system and the hardware. Normally, your OS looks for disks (/dev/sda, /dev/sdb, and so on) and partitions within those disks (/dev/sda1, /dev/sdb1, and so on). read more Powered by...
