If you are selling your video gaming console to someone you do not know or someone you don’t want to have your personal information, you will want to reset your console to factory conditions and wipe all your data from the hard-drive. Let’s see how to do it on the Sony PlayStation 4. Here the video and after the step-by-step[…]
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The STADIA box. Outside and inside the new gaming system package
Stadia is foremost a service, and as such should not rely on actual hardware. The fact is that to access the service in these first months of Stadia’s life, it is necessarily necessary to have purchased a Founder’s or a Premiere Edition. In our case, we got our hands on a Founder’s Edition, including the controller in the exclusive midnight[…]
Read moreHappy again, with Linux
On how people become happy again using Linux on their PCs and Macs. If you want to rediscover the beauty of Information Technology, using a secure and reliable system, but also having fun, then give Linux a chance. And have more fun choosing from its many distributions. Through the years, as my MacBook’s hardware failures became increasingly inconvenient, and as[…]
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[…]
Read moreHow to turn on Accelerated Compositing Layers on Firefox
Accelerated compositing is the best way to use the available graphics hardware, offloading the work required to composite the webpages from the various layers they contain. If you enable it in Firefox, the result will be better user experience and improved overall performance. Hardware accelerated compositing uses the Graphics Processor Unit (GPU) to accelerate certain elements as native video formats[…]
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