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Google Chrome finally includes a Reading Mode but only on Android

Top 15 Roomba names

Notes on dual-booting Linux with BitLocker Device Encryption and Secure Boot

How to use Xiaomi Mi Band 3 as a continuous heart rate monitor for Google Fit

How large should you make the UEFI System Partition?

Update: 3 months with Bitwarden

Distributed web not ready for Runet cutoff from the Internet

What is First-Party Isolation in Firefox and what breaks if you enabled it

Why I migrated from LastPass to Bitwarden

Remote desktop capabilities still missing in Fedora 29 Workstation

How to take back control of /etc/resolv.conf on Linux

How to enable remote RDP access in Windows 10 Home edition

LastPass quietly deprecates Firefox for Android extension

Goodbye FastMail: Aussie government succeeds in undermining trust in Australian tech companies

WebP image file sizes compared to equivalent Guetzli and Zopfli

The tiny NFC area on the Nokia 7 Plus

Actually secure DNS over TLS in Unbound

Brave should have its own User-Agent, but here is how you detect it anyway

How to change the UEFI System Partition size in Windows Setup

EU GDPR and personal data in web server logs

Gaming on Steam for Linux is more secure than on macOS and Win32

Not getting much done with Microsoft To-Do

Review: Ethernet Adapter for Google Chromecast

Firefox, Security Keys, U2F, and Google Advanced Protection

Review of Mailbox.org: Email privacy with a thick German accent

How to configure multiple NTP network time servers on a Windows client

How to set European English locale on Android

Fedora Workstation versus Server Edition

Chrome is right to remove the webRequest extension API

How to configure multiple NTP network time servers on a macOS client

What is Lenovo WiFi Security and should you enable or ignore it?

How to enable, login to, or disable Microsoft SSH Server in Windows 10

How to add CalDAV and CardDAV accounts and sync with Windows 10

The many problems with the Logitech G403

Customing time and date formats in the GNOME top bar

How to work around the IKEv2 EAP authentication issue in Windows 10

How to add an iCal/webcal calendar to the Calendar app in Windows 10

Excessive heat from late-2013 MacBook Pro under macOS 10.14 ‘Mojave’

WebP images won’t load in Microsoft Edge with Application Guard

Here’s how Google Chrome’s new ad blocker works

Adjusting or silencing a systemd service or app’s logging levels

Giving people a choice about Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) versus the web

How to fix Roomba 900 series configuration Wi-Fi network not being broadcast

How to use the same Host header for origin and proxy server using Apache mod_proxy

How to get faster and more secure DNS resolution with Knot Resolver on Fedora

Running Linux on the Lenovo ThinkPad Carbon X1 (5th generation)

How I blocked myself from obtaining a Let’s Encrypt TLS certificates

Pocket Casts’ desktop apps aren’t as great as I’d hoped but better than feared

IPFS pinning services overcharge for duplicated objects

New Google Podcasts app: who needs data portability anyway?

Is remote desktop making a comeback in GNOME on Wayland?

Open links force-opened in Microsoft Edge in your default browser

Getting yourself into trouble with NGINX caching reverse proxy and rewritten URLs

Fixing “Your File History drive was disconnected for too long” errors

New browser extension: Trackerless Magnet URI

A look at IPFS’ garbage collector and how long resources remains cached

Changing the language and keyboard layout in the BitLocker Device Encryption pre-boot environment

The early end-of-life for Forza Horizon 2 is a game-cultural tragedy

What I learned after 30 minutes with ReFS

Scaleway seems too good to be true

Comparing secondary authoritative DNS service providers

A look at the new AdSense APIs for GDPR and ePrivacy consent screens

Why we need the distributed web

I regret transferring my domains to Hover

How to remove the Adobe Acrobat Update service after uninstalling Acrobat Reader

How to allow UPnP port mapping of 80 or 443 on MikroTik RouterOS

BATify extension brings Brave Payments to Firefox and Chrome

Contour Diabetes app, Bluetooth, and why diabetics can’t have nice things

Extension enhances privacy of all embedded YouTube videos

Re-review of the Lenovo Yoga 3 Pro laptop/tablet hybrid 3 years later

Getting the Apple News app for macOS in unsupported regions

Reviewing options for backing up to Backblaze B2 with Window Backup

Problems to expect with Apache mod_cache

What is really the difference between TP-Link RE650 and RE500? Firmware limits.

Does Casting videos from YouTube to the big screen come at the creators’ expense?

TP-Link repeater firmware squanders 715 MB/month

Safari’s default media controls get blocked when applying a Content-Security-Policy

Strip out the ads and pay websites directly with Brave browser

Larger fonts and shorter line lengths

Review: IPFire as a home router

On using Coinhive CAPTCHA instead of reCAPTCHA by Google

Why I don’t trust LastPass with my passwords

Reporting emails to SpamCop actually stop spammers

Six places to report phishing emails and websites

Tracking beyond the web browser: Unique identifiers being embedded into software downloads

Cheapo Windows licenses openly sold as “pirate keys” on Amazon.ca

How to disable Cortana and restore Windows Search in Creator’s Update

Enabling both .onion and .i2p routing with Proxy Auto-Configuration

Top 10 most read articles of 2018

Combating article theft by delaying RSS feeds

TP-Link serves outdated or no firmware at all on 30% of its European websites

What is TWINUI in Windows 10 all about?