I know I’m late to the game but I went to setup Windows 11 for the first time yesterday. I assumed it would be kind of like Windows 10. I’ve installed Windows 10 hundreds of times. But this time I was greeted with forced internet connections and online accounts. It was awful. My wife’s family Continue Reading »
In possibly one of the worst data breaches of all time a company called National Public Data lost 2.9 billion records including SSNs. Addresses can change but SSNs do not. This breach could cause harm for decades. There needs to be consequences for data breaches. It seems like there are big data breaches all the Continue Reading »
I won’t argue with you that cryptocurrency is a cool technology. I also love the idea of a decentralized currency. But I’m not so sure that bitcoin is the answer. It has a lot of problems. I don’t know if it will happen next year or 10 years from now but I think bitcoin will Continue Reading »
Every since I heard of ChatGPT I’ve been looking for ways to run something like it locally. I wanted a private self-hosted AI that works offline and is open source. But every time I looked I didn’t find anything that matched what I wanted. Or it seemed overly complicated to get setup. Until now. The Continue Reading »
USB drive encryption is so easy on Linux there’s really no reason not to use it. Plus USB drives are small and easy to lose or misplace. I consider a thumb drive that’s not encrypted to be high risk. Anything on one should be safe for the public to see. Other types of data should Continue Reading »
