Harden Android privacy and security with GrapheneOS

Harden Android privacy and security with GrapheneOS

Regular Android devices when up-to-date with the latest security patches are quite secure to a certain degree. However when it comes to privacy it's definitely not great. A lot can be configured to be more robust and less permissive though the granularity is very limited. When it comes to Google apps/services however there's simply no way to truly opt-out of many of the background tracking behavior. This is because Google Play Services runs as a system app on these devices, giving it access to a…

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How to install Minecraft in Linux the easy way

How to install Minecraft in Linux the easy way

The secret to installing Minecraft the easy way is to use a third-party launcher/manager like Prism Launcher. First make sure you have the latest version of Java and the Flatpak runtime installed on your Linux system. You can check this by running the following commands in a terminal: java -version flatpak --version Install the Flatpak build of Prism Launcher by running the following command in a terminal: flatpak install flathub org.prismlauncher.PrismLauncher Once Prism Launcher is…

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RGB Delight on Linux: We can have nice things too!

RGB Delight on Linux: We can have nice things too!

There's no doubt about it, the latest NZXT cases like the H7 Flow are absolutely amazing from both a performance and aesthetics point of view. However why have a tempered glass window in your case if there's nothing nice to look at inside right? You want them RGB fans and LED strips in order to really show off your FPS monster build. Well those were my thoughts at least when I went ahead and purchased my new case and several overly expensive RGB fans (model: NZXT AER RGB2). I opted to connect t…

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Speed up your Virtual machines with Qemu

Speed up your Virtual machines with Qemu

If you're into Virtual Machines for whatever reason at all there's a big chance you've been using Virtualbox and are quite happy with it. I was the same until I saw this YouTube video by ChrisTitusTech. This post will be mostly based off of his excellent tutorial but tailored towards the Arch Linux users. Check if virtualization is enabled in BIOS egrep -c '(vmx|svm)' /proc/cpuinfo If this command returns a number greater than 0 it should be enabled. If the output is zero however, you shoul…

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