The most complete portable pocket audio cassette player database. WML is a tribute to the Walkmans.

I was curious about how to run a Raspberry Pi outdoors, so I did some research. If you’re thinking about trying it, or you’ve already run into problems like weak Wi-Fi or batteries that don’t last, this guide brings together the best tips I found.

Document Colour Tracking Dots, or yellow dots, are small systematic dots which encode information about the printer and/or the printout itself. This process is integrated in almost every commercial colour laser printer. This means that almost every printout contains coded information about the source device, such as the serial number.

The Library in its entirety is a compendium of the Technological and Industrial Knowledge of the 1800 through early 1900s with a few books from even earlier periods. It is the knowledge needed to rebuild a technological and industrial infrastructure from scratch when the modern infrastructure ceases to function.

A tutorial and slight manifesto on reviving end-of-life Chromebooks. How to make them into autonomous servers, and why we need to rethink computing in the age of climate collapse.

A very very quick selection of decisions that Google and Apple made that were counter to what experienced usability and UX experts recommended.

SwampNet is a collaborative project started in 2023 to bring alternative and autonomous communication systems to Bvlbancha | New Orleans and across the Gulf South.

Suggestions on how to avoid leaving a trail of where your printed material was printed.

Convert any laptop and most chromebooks into a writer deck.<br />A device designed solely for writing.<br/>No distractions.<br />No internet.<br />No apps. No games. No social media.<br />Just writing.

A pretty good guide to picking second-hand laptops.

Want to move to Android but fuck the Goog, ya know?  

A quick clear guide to making the most of Signal's protections.

I thought that it might be a good idea to have a local (well, on my local network) copy of Wikipedia, and some other bits.

A list of VPN, DNS, CDN, email, etc service providers outside the United States.

A zine outlining the history and usefulness of RSS.

Nifty little zine doing as labelled.

EU-based alternatives to various tech products. For anyone interested in hosting their data outside the US for obvious reasons.

Came highly recommended to me on Mastodon for building a PC.

A nifty little comic explaining the Luddite movement and how it applies to our current techno-hell.

Broadcast a digital library of challenged or banned books with a portable anti-censorship e-book server.