RSS Parrot

BETA

🦜 Dedoimedo - A Place to Learn a Lot About a Lot

@www.dedoimedo.com.index.html@rss-parrot.net

I'm an automated parrot! I relay a website's RSS feed to the Fediverse. Every time a new post appears in the feed, I toot about it. Follow me to get all new posts in your Mastodon timeline! Brought to you by the RSS Parrot.

---

Dedoimedo is a website dedicated to technology and software education, science, art, and (dark) humor. Its mission: to provide most detailed and accurate guides and articles you will find on the Web, on a wide range of topics, including operating systems, application reviews, security, and more

Your feed and you don't want it here? Just e-mail the birb.

Site URL: www.dedoimedo.com/index.html

Feed URL: www.dedoimedo.com/rss_feed.xml

Posts: 12

Followers: 1

VeraCrypt and Linux kernel encryption conflict

https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/veracrypt-truecrypt-kernel-conflict.html

Published: May 16, 2025 12:00

Funky Friday. Behold, a rather unique and bizarre tutorial showing how to work around the severe issue of kernel panic when trying to copy files from externally mounted NTFS-formatted TrueCrypt or VeraCrypt containers to any other location on Linux systems…

Slimbook Titan report 6 - Yup, I'm happy

https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/slimbook-titan-report-6.html

Published: May 13, 2025 12:00

Happy, shiny Dedo writing. Here's long-term usage review and report 6 of my Slimbook Titan laptop, with Nvidia RTX 3070 graphics and Kubuntu 22.04 LTS as the operating system, including solid, stable, fast baseline, fantastic looks, everyday use with…

My Draft2Digital catalog, all books 50% off

https://books2read.com/ap/RJj23E/Igor-Ljubuncic

Published: May 12, 2025 12:00

Here's something neat and sweet. From May 15 till May 31, I'm offering my entire Draft2Digital book catalog at 50% discount, through all the available stores. That means Smashwords, Apple, Kobo, Everand, Vivlio, Fable, and others. DRM-free books, too, no…

How to optimize WINE-run KompoZer on HD screens in Linux

https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/kompozer-linux-hd-uhd-screens.html

Published: May 9, 2025 12:00

Old gold. Also, a tutorial showing how to improve performance and responsiveness of the KompoZer WYSIWYG HTML editor running under WINE in modern Linux with HD or UHD displays, including separate prefix with 96DPI resolution, 32-bit prefix, beta version…

Passwords are okay, impulsive Internet isn't

https://www.dedoimedo.com/life/passwords-passkeys.html

Published: May 3, 2025 12:00

I hate buzzwords, but you know that. Here's my article discussing the aggressive push for passkeys as an alternative to passwords, including numerous problems associated with passkeys like big companies agenda, complicated proprietary implementations,…

Brave browser - A rather interesting Chromium-based option

https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/brave-browser.html

Published: May 2, 2025 12:00

Here comes my review of Brave, a Chromium-based browser, including look and feel, numerous privacy-related options like Shields and support for Manifest V2 extensions, cosmetic tweaks for Web pages, Web3 functionality, built-in AI assistant, Dashboard,…

Kubuntu 22.04 updates after April 2025

https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/kubuntu-22-04-after-april-2025.html

Published: April 30, 2025 11:00

Three or five or more? I've written an article explaining the system update and security implications for Kubuntu 22.04 LTS past the April 2025 three-year support date, including inaccurate upgrade notification popup, apt architecture overview, third-party…

DuckDuckGo App Tracking Protection review

https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/duckduckgo-app-tracking-protection.html

Published: April 25, 2025 12:00

The modern Web sucks. Maybe we can make it suck less. I've smithed a review of DuckDuckGo App Tracking Protection, a privacy-focused feature built into the DuckDuckGo Browser, including VPN-like behavior, inclusion and exclusion lists, effectiveness,…

User trust is a sacred, fickle thing

https://www.dedoimedo.com/life/user-trust.html

Published: April 23, 2025 11:00

The third law of thermodynamics, as it applies to humans. To wit, an article and mild rant about the importance of user choice in the technology and software ecosystems, with examples from Google and Microsoft products, action-reaction mechanism,…

Play any (old) game on any resolution in Linux

https://www.dedoimedo.com/games/linux-games-any-resolution.html

Published: April 18, 2025 12:00

This ought to be interesting. Behold, a lovely jubbly tutorial showing how to run any old resolution-and-scaling-limited game or program on modern Linux systems with HD displays using Xephyr nested X sessions, VNC server with scaling and separate virtual…

Zorin OS 17.3 review - Would you pay for your Linux desktop?

https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/zorin-os-17-3.html

Published: April 16, 2025 12:00

Zorin ain't just a Bond villain. 'Tis a nice distro. To wit, here's a pretty long, thorough review of Zorin OS 17.3 Core, tested in a dual-boot configuration on a laptop with AMD processor and integrated graphics and NMVe storage, covering live session,…