Software I Love and Use

🛠 Services The Proton Suite Brave Search 🖥 Desktop Arch Linux: KDE Plasma, KDE Connect, Zen Kernel Debian: Xenmod Kernel Brave Browser LibreWolf VSCodium LocalSend 📱 Mobile GrapheneOS Signal FUTO Keyboard FUTO Voice Input Termux F-Droid Client

Decoding VPNs

🔒 VPNs: What They Really Do (And What They Don’t) VPNs are everywhere these days. Ads, YouTubers, even non-tech-savvy folks are asking if they need one. Here’s the truth: VPNs are tools, not magic shields. They help with privacy, but they don’t make you invisible online. 🛠 How VPNs Work A VPN (Virtual Private Network) creates a secure, encrypted tunnel between your device and a VPN server. All your internet traffic passes through it, so outsiders like ISPs or public Wi-Fi networks can’t easily see what you’re doing.

The Normalization of Spyware

Protecting Your Privacy in a Digital World In today’s digital world, our privacy is under threat more than ever. Spyware — often hidden inside popular software — is becoming normalized. Most people don’t read terms and conditions, and even fewer check privacy policies to see how their data is used, analyzed, or stored. Take Windows, for example. Every update adds new features, which often means more data collection. Microsoft says it’s for system improvement, but it frequently goes further than most realize — collecting everything from basic diagnostics to detailed monitoring of your digital activity.

Search Engines with Privacy!

Discovering what someone is searching for on the web can reveal a lot of information about them… Whether it be about their medical issues, financial situation, personal issues, or simply anything that comes to their mind, it will be searched, and in most cases, it will be documented by someone. There are companies out there that are making insane amounts of revenue from data collected from unsuspecting people. For example, Google has stated that they track things that you type into the search bar even if you don’t press “Enter.

Free Open Source Desktop Capture Tool - OBS Studio (How-To)

OBS Studio is free and open source, meaning there are no watermarks, no trial periods and it’ll never ask you for money! It is pretty much the only capture utility you will ever need. https://obsproject.com/

Free and open-source software that you should be using!

Free and open-source software can provide the optimal solutions for the desktop applications we rely on daily. These alternatives should receive more promotion than they currently do. However, prominent corporations often dominate this realm either by pre-installing software on your device or steering you toward their paid services through various methods. Many companies are shifting towards subscription-based models, forcing users into recurring expenses over time. Yet, transitioning to free or open-source software not only offers cost savings but often presents superior solutions as well.