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Announcement: A New Type of Content!

Announcement: A New Type of Content!

Some of you may have noticed that we didn't post last week, and on top of that this week's post is going to be very short. We promise it's for a good reason. We are currently working on some of our marketing techniques as

Hardware Highlight: Raspberry Pi price increased

Hardware Highlight: Raspberry Pi price increased

For those of us that are in the technology field or who like to tinker, Raspberry Pi single board computers (SBCs) are nothing new. With the launch of the original Raspberry Pi in 2012, Pi 2 in 2015, Pi "Zero" in 2015, Pi3 in 2016, Pi 4 in

Hardware Highlight: Framework announces Marketplace

Hardware Highlight: Framework announces Marketplace

Framework is back with more exciting news! If you missed any of the previous posts about them, we discussed some of what they are trying to accomplish – namely modularity and repairability. They launched their new laptops a few months ago on a per-order basis, allowing buyers to choose some of

Announcement: Linus Tech Tips moving to Linux!

Hello and welcome back! In light of the upcoming Steam Deck [https://blog.nottinghamnerds.com/hardware-highlight-steam-deck/] launch and the catastrophe that Windows 11 is chalking up to be, Linus Tech Tips and his co-host Luke on the WAN Show [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvTCc0iXGcQ] announced they would be

Software Spotlight: Full Steam ahead on Linux gaming support!

Hello and welcome to the Nottingham Nerds blog! Today we are discussing a couple of monumental updates in the Linux world. For those of you that read our post [https://blog.nottinghamnerds.com/hardware-highlight-steam-deck/] about the Steam Deck [https://www.steamdeck.com/en/], some of this information will be familiar,

Hardware Highlight: Mini desktop PCs/ HTPCs

Hardware Highlight: Mini desktop PCs/ HTPCs

Welcome to this week's post! Today we are discussing the Intel Next Unit of Computing (NUC) and similar products like the ASUS PN50 (AMD based NUC clone). In recent years, AMD has risen above both its former self, and Intel in terms of CPU line ups and pricing

Software Spotlight: Shells.com

Software Spotlight: Shells.com

Maybe you're interested in checking out modern day Linux, but you don't want to spend a bunch of money on a new machine with Linux installed on it and you don't have a spare machine to have it installed on (by you or a

Privacy Pinpoint: Australian Surveillance skyrockets with new bill

Privacy Pinpoint: Australian Surveillance skyrockets with new bill

December 2018 In December 2018, reports about Australia passing legislation began to make waves – the legislation would allow law enforcement to coerce companies into: * Remove one or more forms of electronic protections * Provide technical information * Facilitate access to services and equipment * Install software * Modify technology * Conceal that the company has

Software Spotlight: Apps for Gnome

Gnome has recently released "Apps for Gnome" – a new web portal to showcase applications that are curated by Gnome and include applications which are built with the Gnome philosophy in mind. They are intuitive, simple to use, and feature a consistent and polished design. All of the applications

Software Spotlight: Mastodon

Software Spotlight: Mastodon

Welcome back to another post, nerds! We are here today to discuss social networking. Nottingham Nerds generally takes a pretty strong stance against social networks and the companies that run them because of the data collection, lack of privacy, manipulation, security issues, rampant misinformation, and many other reasons. We ran

Privacy Pinpoint: Apple to scan photos on all iPhones

Privacy Pinpoint: Apple to scan photos on all iPhones

Apple is back in the news, but instead of protecting its users like they did back in 2016 when they denied the FBI access to a San Bernardino shooters iPhone, they have new plans that include scanning all of your messages and photos - and not just the ones in

Privacy PinPoint: Pegasus Project

Privacy PinPoint: Pegasus Project

Pegasus' are beautiful fantasy creatures indeed, but the Pegasus Project is quite the ugly beast. Pegasus is a malware/virus created by the Israeli surveillance company NSO Group, according to an investigation into a massive data leak that occurred just a couple of weeks ago. This malware infects iPhones

Hardware Highlight: USB Types

Hardware Highlight: USB Types

Hello and welcome back to another blog from Nottingham Nerds! We are here today to discuss the different types of Universal Serial Bus (USB) connectors, what they are, what they do, and how we can utilize them while using our technology. USB was originally designed to simply allow a universal

Hardware Highlight: Steam Deck

Hardware Highlight: Steam Deck

Welcome back to the Nottingham Nerds blog! Today we are covering the recently announced Steam Deck. Stay tuned even if you're not into gaming because this device is a huge step forward for Linux and open source! The Steam Deck is a handheld gaming device made by Valve

Software Spotlight: Gnome 40 & Pop!_OS COSMIC!

Software Spotlight: Gnome 40 & Pop!_OS COSMIC!

Welcome back to the Nottingham Nerds blog! We are covering some exciting news in the Linux world today! For those of you who are unaware, Gnome (Guh-Nome, the 'G' is not silent in this case) is a Linux desktop environment (the graphical user interface that is used as

Software Spotlight: haveibeenpwned

Hello and welcome back to the Nottingham Nerds blog! We are excited to report that haveibeenpwned [https://www.haveibeenpwned.com] (HIBP) is going open source! For those unaware, the term pwned is a term coined at MIT in the 1960s when programmers were building chess AI. This term was used

Software Spotlight: ProtonVPN Linux GUI app!

ProtonVPN has been supported on Linux for a couple of years now. At first, we had a community created command line interface program that allowed us the necessities in order to login and use ProtonVPN services. In 2020, ProtonVPN released an official version of that program with a similar command

Announcement: Right to Repair Legislation has arrived

Announcement: Right to Repair Legislation has arrived

The Right to Repair movement has been around for quite awhile now, and is gaining a whole lot of traction. For years, farm equipment manufacturers, vehicle manufacturers, and even many technology companies have been working against their customers by way of ensuring there aren't any cost effective or

Privacy Pinpoint: Amazon Sidewalk program

Privacy Pinpoint: Amazon Sidewalk program

Amazon released a new program on June 8th that they call "Amazon Sidewalk". Amazon automatically enrolled its devices (read your devices that you purchased with your hard earned money) in the program. Sidewalk is a new wireless mesh network service that will share (read siphon or steal) a

Hardware Highlight: Frame.Work extended

Hardware Highlight: Frame.Work extended

Welcome back to another post! We hope this finds all of you doing well. We're back again today to talk about some updates about the Framework Laptop [https://frame.work/]. First and foremost, pre-orders for batch one have already been underway for a couple of weeks and ships

Privacy Pinpoint: DuckDuckGo

DuckDuckGo is an alternative search engine to popular search engine Google. Although saying "Google it" is easier said than "search it on DuckDuckGo", this search engine is pretty great for many reasons: 1. It yields amazing search results 2. They don't store your personal

Privacy Pinpoint: Dasgeek privacy Master class

Privacy Pinpoint: Dasgeek privacy Master class

Ryan from Dasgeek Community [https://dasgeekcommunity.com/] and the Destination Linux Network [https://destinationlinux.network/] brings knowledge from the privacy community and an Information Security Engineer that is suitable for anyone at any skill level to better your knowledge about privacy and ways you can take back control! The video

Privacy Pinpoint: ProtonMail

ProtonMail [https://www.protonmail.com] is an easy to use secure email service with built-in end-to-end encryption and state of the art security features. It is built by a team of scientists, engineers, and developers lead by computer scientist Andy Yen. The company is based in Switzerland (outside of the

Hardware Highlight: Frame.Work

Hardware Highlight: Frame.Work

If you haven't heard of the issues these past 5-10 years regarding the right to repair (or lack thereof), it's a massive problem which effects many industries. Many farmers are effected by this because companies like John Deere refuse to allow people who buy their products

Hardware Highlight : YubiKey 5 Series

Hardware Highlight : YubiKey 5 Series

YubiKey 5 is a hardware security key that is used for two-factor authentication (2FA) made by Yubico [https://www.yubico.com]. It is used in addition with a password in order to gain access to your accounts. These devices support FIDO2, U2F, Smart card, One Time Password (OTP), and OpenPGP