How To Contact the Fruity People and Smashing Through the Silicon Curtain You are an Apple fanatic, you bought yourself an iPhone or a Mac, and then you found yourself confused coming from Android, Linux, or Windows; or you have had problems with the sale, after-sale, warranty, or other. Apple is a great company and produces great products, but not[…]
Read moreApple’s latest iOS 15.2 and iPadOS 15.2 updates, released in December 2021, introduce a significant quality-of-life improvement for users who find themselves locked out of their devices. Prior to this update, forgetting your device passcode often meant a frustrating process involving a computer connection and recovery mode procedures. Now, Apple has streamlined this process with a new on-device reset option[…]
Read moreIntroduction: Where Typography Meets Open Source Excellence In the world of digital design and typography, the marriage of form and function is paramount. While Apple has long been recognized for its typographic excellence, the open-source community has produced remarkable alternatives that deserve attention. Among these, the Ubuntu Font Family stands as a testament to elegance, readability, and versatile functionality across[…]
Read moreAfter the latest system updates, VLC has also been updated and has given us a nice surprise: it is no longer able to play our multimedia files on the NAS (Network Attached Storage, so a network disk that serves files over the home network) disk. The problem occurs, in particular, with the Samba-type connection (SMB/CIFS) but also with the Apple[…]
Read more“I’m announcing the release of the 5.3.18 kernel. Note, this is the LAST 5.3.y kernel release. It is now end-of-life. Please move to 5.4.y now. All users of the 5.3 kernel series must upgrade,” said Greg Kroah-Hartman in a mailing list announcement. “The updated 5.3.y git tree can be found at https://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git;a=summary.” Linux Kernel 5.3 Reached End of Life, Users[…]
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