Tips & Tricks

This tutorial will walk you through installing and setting up pihole, configuring blocklists, and setting your router to use pihole for DNS requests. What is PiHole? PiHole is a local DNS server and blacklist device that you can use on your local network to manage DNS, block ads and marketing trackers, and other specific websites. […]

Plasma is an excellent Desktop Environment, but recent versions have removed the traditional Home, Trash, Network, and Computer icons from the system. This tutorial will help you restore them. Why did they go away? I am not sure, it may have to do with the experiments with their new folder view for the desktop, which […]

This video will show you the steps to customize the phone. While I have had a lot of success flashing phones, there is a chance of breaking a phone by installing custom software. I cannot be help liable for anything that happens to your device. Here is the phone I am using here: Nexus 5X […]

This is a simple guide and video on how to harden your #Firefox browser. While this tutorial is displayed on Linux, it also works for #Windows and #Mac Notes on Firefox Hardening: Plugins: uBlock Origin (Raymond Hill) Privacy Badger HTTPS Everywhere Options: New Windows and Tabs should be blank to prevent a site from knowing […]

Am I too paranoid? I have been asked that question on a few comments, but sometimes in emails or on chats. Some people just think that I take my privacy a little too seriously. I learned that the website slant.co has a list of top Linux Youtubers, and I was in the list… the post […]

It is no secret that Linux Mint is my favorite Linux distribution. From the first time I saw it, I went from, ‘Yep, Linux will Work’ to ‘WOW! Linux may be perfect!’ What caused such a revelation? Why is this the perfect distro for me? Well, these are my reasons. You will have your own […]

If you are searching the internet for how you might install the easy GUI package manger Pamac onto your Arch install, be aware most of the instructions out there are still using Yaourt which is no longer being maintained.  Fortunately there are many other AUR helpers out there to pick from, and this set of […]

Most of us have heard about cookies in the context of computers or the Internet, but most of us do not have a grasp of what they are.  I was asked to record a video about cookies directly in response to my video on Facebook Wants to Know Everything, so here goes a little more […]

We all have our favorite search engines that we like to use for searching but one disadvantage of Linux Mint is they have disabled the usual way to add your custom search engines to the Firefox browser.  On this video I will show you how to add any search engine to Firefox.  Joe Collins recently […]

Do you happen to have a desktop computer?  If so, chances are you can try out Linux with what I refer to as a ‘safer’ dual boot.  This is not what we generally mean when referring to dual booting because the two operating systems will be installed on different hard disks.  Most full-sized desktop computers […]