Veteran of the digital frontier. I cut my teeth on dial-up, built empires with MP3's, and mastered the art of DVD ripping. Those were the wild days of the internet, and I was there, shaping the scene.
In October 2025 I published an article Vintage CD player buyers guide , which turned out to be quite popular, but I was not finished. I kept on acquiring, disassembling, servicing and studying the players further and discovered I need to come up with an update. Once again, this is all
The COSMIC desktop by System76 is the new kid on the block, but what does it bring to the table?
Old Compact Disc players have one common issue - old age. How to find the needle in the haystack?
I did not see this coming - twenty five years later the original topic of this website is trending.
During the last winter I went through a divorce, drove myself on the verge of a burnout, recovered and moved out. This is what I learned.
Lately the media has been full of articles regarding the end of support of Windows 10, presumably in 2025, and how it is the end of the world for many old but useful computers. This is not true. You can update virtually any PC that runs Windows 10 to version
In the second half of the 2010's Chromebooks got some traction on the market. Big brands like Acer, Asus, Lenovo and Samsung released models at very attractive price points. The support for Android apps increased their market appeal, making Chromebooks a more productive alternative to a tablet. The
When Microsoft announced the very strict hardware requirements for Windows 11 and the end of support of Windows 10, they basically killed the older end of their Surface product line. In reality the decade old Surface Pro 3 is fully compatible with Windows 11 , while not officially supported. While I
Just a brief update on how things are rolling. As the returning readers already know, this site is built with Ghost blogging platform and the back-end is managed using Cloudron . On the infrastructural level we are utilizing Cloudflare and you should too. Cloudflare is a publicly listed Internet powerhouse
This method also applies to flashing custom firmware (DD-WRT, OpenWrt), or returning back to stock firmware. In this article we use TP-Link Archer C7 v5 EU , but the basic principle is the same for several other TP-Link models. I recently needed to do this and found out
So you got yourself a brand new router - congrats! Most likely its an ASUS, TP-Link or maybe Netgear or Linksys. Or maybe it is actually a modem, possibly from your internet service provider. No matter what it is and how you got it, here is some useful advice on
We take a quick peek to Cloudron.io service, which automates your application hosting and server administration.
Internet is not a safe space. As a farther I am constantly worried about how vulnerable the growing generation is to everything that is evil online. The kids and teens of today have grown up with smartphones and take constant online access for granted. The devices and apps are such
In the 90's starting your own website was dead simple. One simply created .html files with a text editor and uploaded them, along with images, to a web server – often the one that your ISP provided with your plan. Soon after came the visual editors, like DreamWeaver
This is the glorious return of BitBurners.com. I am pretty sure that nobody missed it. In the good old 90's fashion, nothing is in place, but the page is online anyway. If you for some reason a give damn, then read About .