Just a roundup of the past two weeks. Some Reading This is a great article from Moxie Marlinespike explaining how web 3.0 is already moving to a web 2.0 model. Since three companies basically control the transactions on the Blockchain. Here is a good read comparing 12th gen Intel and why it’s not as big of a power hog as the internet is making it out to be. A really nice article covering why people keep overbuying and 95 percent of people have no use for a flagship ph
Say hi to Honey.
Dells Support Assist is about as good as it gets for auto driver updaters. The backup on the other hand…..
Camculator a hard computer science problem.
We don’t condone Piracy but we aren’t any fans of Adobe here:) Adobe cracks the thing nobody ever does. Adobe has now indirectly removed more piracy than any DRM scheme possible Now that more and more features are moving into Adobe Sensei, which is processed server-side cracks are going to be less useful. Due to cracks needing to be offline, anything using Sensei will be broken. As more newcomers come to the suite and are using the AI capabilities cracks will start dying off fairly qui
Can you spot the easter egg on the laptop? Shot on the Redmi Note 9 Pro . Laptop is the x230.
The new WordPress category is live. https://pupontech.com/techreccs/#tab-wordpress
Innovating like usual, Norton and Avira now will install a free add-on CryptoMiner. Hurray. Check out Malwarebyte’s and Eset.
I have messed around with all the big integration apps for file transfers/notifications and the like between Phones and PC’s. Including: * Airdroid * PushBullet * Send Anywhere * Join * Easy Join * Kde Connect * Telegram saved messages. SnapDrop just kills them all for file transfer.Stupidly easy and reliable. Just go to Snapdrop.net and then click on the device you want to share with. Thats it no games no shtick no installs needed.There are apps if you want.Oh and did I me
All Links can be found at www.pupontech.com/techreccs Windows software Playnite- manage all your video games from one place. Android Memoria has replaced EZ Gallery as my gallery app. Energy bar has been removed to much battery drain. Harpy has replaced Talon as my Twitter app. Added snapdrop – share files easily over the local network. TeMeFI for rooted users – app management. Hardware Razer Viper Mini mouse has replaced my Taipan .
Happy New Year to all my readers! Here’s a short post about this past year, as well as some of my goals for the site, for the upcoming year. This year we had a full site redesign which I am extremely proud of. The tech ramblings section inspired by Raccon”s Blog and Tweakhound.com, with short- takes on different things has provided a platform for my short posts without cluttering up the rest of the blog. This has been a big net positive for my mental health. The con
I was trying to run the awesome utility from Tweaking.com. Which by the way looks sketchy as all hell but is a freaking life saver for weird Windows software issues. But when i try running it IN SAFE MODE.Guess whos running in the background, Mcafee.Is anything sacred? The program breaks safe mode. If that doesnt tell you enough about what a piece of absolute turd it is, I cant help you. Get rid of Mcaffee.
Computer Lineup Added my current computer Lineup to bio. Can be found here as well. Some updates to TechReccs. Replaced Nomacs with Irfanview. Added Affinty Designer and Publisher. Replaced Slimfold Micro Tyvek for Ed Charly wallet. Updated just fucking google it link. Archived Spotifeed as Spotify backend changes broke it.
We have a problem in our office. We have TB’s of customers’ data that needs to be moved around every month. As of now what we have been doing is using external SSD’s. We have a consumer-grade Nas that we are using for various other things but thought maybe we should try to do all this data moving around via the network. We went and slammed a couple of SSD’s into a higher-end Synology NAS and tested it. What did we find? A hard cap at 125 MBPS max. Why is that you may ask, Gigabit is limited
In Trello most people type things. Therefore if any of your shortcuts are not using a modifier you are already set up for disaster. To make matters worse they decided to make “C” Archive. So whenever I misclick CTRL+C for copy guess what happens, you guessed it Trello archives it. To make matters worse Trello does not let you modify or disable shortcuts. #PureGenius. Here are the Trello Shortcuts look at how many are standard letters withought modifiers. https://trello.com/shortcu
I was trying to find a crack for the app, Seer and made the mistake of running them withought a sandbox. The program ran a crypto miner which kept getting blocked by my firewall. But in the background my files were being renamed to .koom. Luckily I caught it as well as restored from backups within a hr. I only run simplewall and no AV so if I make a mistake like that I’m pretty screwed. (Looking at moving to Malwarebytes premium.) TLDR: Use a sandbox and have quality backups
Let’s take a look at its new owner. Kape used to be known as Crossrider until it changed its name in 2018 to move away from its advert-slinging past and reinvent itself as a cybersecurity outfit. Crossrider was founded in 2011, and in 2012, billionaire Teddy Sagi took control of it for $37m. In 2015, a joint study by the University of California, Berkeley and Google identified Crossrider as a major affiliate of ad injectors, including SuperFish that you may remember from the laptop adw
To improve the speed of your phone and computer (with a SSD) , keep a minimum of 10 percent of your space free. This will allow trim and other garbage collection functions to work efficiently.
We have settled on merging B and C together.