Shortest path to a usable cutting edge Linux desktop — Over the years, I have grown a love-hate relationship with tiling window managers. They are more customizable, lightweight, workflow enhancing, and when it’s finally setup the way I like it, I visually and in all practicalities love it to pieces. …

Initial Installation, custom kernel, & Cameras — If you are looking for a review on this setup instead of the setup details, check out my previous post instead: The Perfect Tablet & Portable Monitor Linux (Pop! OS 22.04 LTS) on a Microsoft Surface Pro 6hkdb.medium.com Here are roughly the steps to get Pop! OS, the custom Surface kernel, and camera setup to the point where the rest can be setup pretty easily without special…

Linux (Pop! OS 22.04 LTS) on a Microsoft Surface Pro 6 — Tablets and portable monitors have become quite popular in the recent years as the demand for portability has increased especially for those who are always on the go. The dream of being able to read digital documents on an almost paper thin device anywhere or having a secondary monitor attached…

with the ability to update firmware via LVFS — I often see the question of whether the “Starlabs Starbook MK VI can run Pop! OS” floating around in subreddits and forums. Most of them yield the same answer that Pop! …

The “Macbook” of Linux as my Daily Driver — In 2022, I did some research on what I thought might be a good fit as my next daily driver and narrowed down to 2 final candidates. …

All-in-One Messenger that doesn’t kill your laptop batteries — If you have been following for a while, you would know that I have been on a never ending quest to find an effective all-in-one messenger that’s separate from my main browser for quite some time now since my day-to-day work requires me to be on a bunch of different…

or any desktop e-mail client of choice for that matter of fact — Unless you are a fan of webmail or only use the Outlook desktop/mobile apps for e-mail, you better hope your alternative e-mail client of choice supports logging into Office 365 with OAuth2. Now if you are a Linux user or you simply want to use an opensource solution, well, you…

3dfosi/gocrypt — A Golang Encryption Helper Module — Recently, I was reviewing the encryption implemented for a mobile application’s stored data at work and also ran across this article about a vulnerability found in the Microsoft Teams desktop app where the access token was stored on the users’ computers in clear text. It prompted me to look back…

with 2 stupid simple settings; proper muting and folders — Telegram has been my primary form of communication with most of my work contacts and the friends/family I am closest to. We choose it not because it’s the most secure messenger nor did we choose it because it’s supposed to be “privacy focused”. In fact, it’s arguably not very secure…