by Matthew Patten | Jul 4, 2023 | Awesomeness, IT Work
What’s FOSS? FOSS is an acronym for Free & Open Source Software[1]. Most software that we are familiar with is not open source. What does it mean that something is open source vs being proprietary? Why should we want something that is open source vs something...
by Matthew Patten | Jun 9, 2023 | Awesomeness, IT Work, main
Why Use Linux? Last time, we looked at what Linux is and is not. Today, we’ll lay out part of why you should want to use Linux rather than Windows or macOS. Let me recap just a bit from what Linux is before we jump into the meat of today’s post, ok? So, what is Linux?...
by Matthew Patten | May 19, 2023 | Awesomeness, IT Work, main
Hi Again, Today I thought we would roll things back a bit and take a look at what some of the core topics I’ve been covering really are. First things first, we will take a look at what Linux is, and what it isn’t. If I have space, I will talk about infrastructure,...
by Matthew Patten | May 7, 2023 | Awesomeness, IT Work, Web Work
Tired of knowing that Zoom, Hangouts, Meet, Skype, and most of the other video conferencing platforms get snooped on by the CCP, if not our own intelligence community? Need a good alternative? There are a few out there, and most of the free ones are more or less...
by Matthew Patten | Apr 28, 2023 | Awesomeness, IT Work, main, Web Work
If you ever wondered about self-hosting, this week will be a good introduction to the concept as well as to the fediverse, a portmanteau of Federated and Universe. The Fediverse is a set of interoperable protocols and applications which can talk to one another, and...
by Matthew Patten | Apr 14, 2023 | Awesomeness, IT Work, main, Web Work
What is Nextcloud all about? Maybe you’ve heard of it, or maybe this will be an introduction for you, but it is, in short, a powerful, private, open source collaboration solution which you can self-host (on any hardware you want which has a network connection) or set...
