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MacOS Privacy
On the one hand it has some pretty nice security features, decent hardware (although the effort for disassembling / fixing is higher than other laptops – and the insistence of soldering memory / storage to the mainboard is also annoying). On the other hand, when using LuLu (a very nice free and open source application…
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New option for adblocking on iOS
To start with: good ad blocking is the best one can do for their security / privacy online these days! For a long time adblocking on iOS devices (iPad / iPhone) was limited. One could use DNS based blocking (Pi-Hole or NextDNS are good options), but many advertisement circumvent these blocks. There was AdBlockPlus which…
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Mainboard photos of HP t630
The wonderful parkytowers.me.uk website doesn’t detailed photos of both sides of the HP t630 thin client, so – in case this would be useful for anyone – here are some photos I’ve made: It’s a very useful little fanless (!) machine. The DisplayPort outputs even support HDMI-CEC when connected to a TV, out of the…
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Maximum memory for Lenovo Yoga 370
(and the Asus Q170T) I’ve picked up a Lenovo Yoga 370 because (amongst other features) it has a removable / upgradable RAM slot (yes, two slots would have been even better :)). You can find various sources (including ChatGPT) claiming it to be 16GB, however, if we look up the processor for this particular model…
