Linux Basics

By Gilles Chehade You change one line in a large file. Your “incremental” backup re-uploads the whole thing anyway. Nine times out of ten, it’s not the network, and it’s not your storage backend. It’s the algorithm deciding where to cut your data into pieces. Every deduplication system works the same way: split data into…

Got a headless Raspberry Pi and want to connect to it? You don’t need to use your computer for that. You can do that with your smartphone itself. TechxArtisan’s latest gadget turns your smartphone into a keyboard, mouse, gamepad and even a SSH terminal. These folks gave us KVM-over-USB gadgets like Openterface Mini-KVM and Openterface…

Last night was the Gamescom Opening Night Live event and there was quite a number of interesting games being announced and shown off. The full event is available on YouTube but below I’ve rounded-up the main interesting stuff to save you some time. In my opinion, this is one of the best events they’ve done…

Built around servers people can host, TeamSpeak has been around since 2001, serving as a reliable communication tool that has gained a reputation for running light and reliably over inconsistent networks. It has gone through many iterations that have seen it grow from a simple client-server voice tool into something that has a modern interface,…

Valve just rolled out the red carpet for the latest mainline stable update to their compatibility layer with Proton 11.0-2 now available. It’s a rather long list of fixes for running Windows games on Linux / SteamOS, Steam Deck and Steam Machine. It will show up as an update in your Steam Downloads for Proton…