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Why I migrated from LastPass to Bitwarden

Google Chrome finally kind of includes a Reading Mode but only on Android

Top 15 Roomba names

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

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

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

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

Update: 3 months with Bitwarden

The many problems with the Logitech G403

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

How to enable remote RDP access in Windows 10 Home edition

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

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

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

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

Running Linux desktop apps on the Windows Subsystem for Linux

How to encrypt backups using Windows 10’s built-in tools

The tiny NFC area on the Nokia 7 Plus

EU GDPR and personal data in web server logs

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

How to set European English locale on Android

Synchronizing GNOME and all its apps with a CalDAV server

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

Remote desktop capabilities still missing in Fedora 29 Workstation

How large should you make the UEFI System Partition?

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

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

Windows 10 can sync email/contacts/calendars with all major providers – chooses to pick winners and losers in the market instead

Review: ASUSWRT router firmware

Network speed testing apps on Windows 10: Ookla or Microsoft?

Review: IPFire as a home router

Actually secure DNS over TLS in Unbound

Conversations: The best open source XMPP client for Android

How-to monitor system bandwidth usage statistics with Darkstat on Fedora

How to change the UEFI System Partition size in Windows Setup

Not getting much done with Microsoft To-Do

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

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

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

The not always Simplenote

WebP image file sizes compared to equivalent Guetzli and Zopfli

Review: Ethernet Adapter for Google Chromecast

Lenovo OneKey Optimizer review

On using Coinhive CAPTCHA instead of reCAPTCHA by Google

Fedora Workstation versus Server Edition

LastPass quietly deprecates Firefox for Android extension

Firefox, Security Keys, U2F, and Google Advanced Protection

Customing time and date formats in the GNOME top bar

All about icons for Microsoft Edge

Privacy Badger improves privacy but breaks your web experience

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

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

My experiences purchasing Bitcoins on Cex.io using a credit card

Flatpak, Steam Cloud, and XDG Base Directories — why your Linux game progress isn’t being synced

Best practices for caching of syndication feeds for feed readers and publishers

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

Syncing your iTunes Library with Groove Music+OneDrive

Extension enhances privacy of all embedded YouTube videos

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

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

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

New Software Update panel added to Cockpit – the web administration interface for Linux

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

Is remote desktop making a comeback in GNOME on Wayland?

Reduce the max cookie lifetime from decades to days in Firefox

Document format support in the new Word apps and Word 2016

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

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

50+ known and unpatched security vulnerabilities in A5-chipset generation iOS devices

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

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

FileLocator Lite and Pro review

What I learned after 30 minutes with ReFS

Lenovo Companion app doesn’t notify you about security updates to TPM firmware

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

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

Don’t trust in YouTube’s break-reminders

Review: Neato D3 Connected robot vacuum

New Google Podcasts app: who needs data portability anyway?

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

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

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

Firefox to reintroduce OpenSearch discovery and install in Firefox 61

Review of laptop stickers and Linux merchandise from Unixstickers

SpiderOak ONE review: Okay backup service, clunky software

Reviewing options for backing up to Backblaze B2 with Window Backup

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

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

I regret transferring my domains to Hover

Combating article theft by delaying RSS feeds

Getting the Apple News app for macOS in unsupported regions

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

Stop CAs from misissuing certificates for your domains with CAA records

My experiences purchasing Bitcoins on Cubits using a credit card

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