Reading feeds is a very pleasant practice, not at the level of what happened at the time of the old BBS boards and not as gothic and Cyberpunk as the old Usenet rooms, but it is a somewhat retro system to stay informed and up to date. In this modern world, you have a lot of choices to read the[…]
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Bliss OS. Android for your x86 personal computer
The project is an Android fork that aims to bring the beauty and the power of the phone/tablet system to the modern desktop and laptop PC. The ‘build’ and ‘alpha’ words should suffice to make you understand that it is absolutely not a software ready for everyday use. Better to abstain, especially if you don’t actually intend to develop –[…]
Read moreDisplay and control your Android device from Linux desktop
What is your favorite superpower? Maybe, the ability to mirror your Android phone on your Linux desktop and to use it as an integrated application. Scrcpy does exactly that and permits you to completely control any Android device, just by connecting it through a simple USB cable. And no root access or hack is needed! This application provides a way[…]
Read moreMandelbrot. How to build an app to view a set
The Mandelbrot set is the set of complex numbers (c) for which repeatedly applying the function fc (z) = z2 + c produces values for which the modulus does not exceed a given value. It this has left you confused, I highly recommend this video which explains all of this is simple terms – there’s no point in me trying[…]
Read moreA Linux hardware experience website turns 15
Phoronix.com turns 15 years old. The Linux related website that began with a case review and some peripheral reviews on a system running Knoppix. I started Phoronix for the poor Linux hardware support at the time and it’s been an amazing turnaround since that point. No longer is it a battle of getting network devices or input devices working on[…]
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