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A collection of 11 posts

Venturing into VPNs: Why ProtonVPN is a Valuable Choice for Home Users and Businesses

Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) are essential tools for ensuring online security and privacy. VPNs encrypt internet traffic and hide IP addresses, allowing users to browse the internet anonymously and securely. VPNs are especially important for home users and businesses that need to protect sensitive information and communications. ProtonVPN is a

Streamlining Security: The Significant Advantages of Network Segmentation and VLANs

Streamlining Security: The Significant Advantages of Network Segmentation and VLANs

Virtual Local Area Networks (VLANs) are a powerful networking tool that can help businesses and home users optimize their network performance, increase security, and simplify network management. In this article, we will explore VLANs, how they work, and the advantages they offer to home users and small to medium-sized businesses.

Protecting Your Perimeter: The Power of a Professional Network Firewall

Protecting Your Perimeter: The Power of a Professional Network Firewall

Homes and businesses of all sizes face numerous cybersecurity threats in today's digital age. From phishing attacks to malware and ransomware, homes and businesses are vulnerable to cyber attacks that can cause significant damage to their operations, reputation, and finances. One of the most effective ways to protect

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: 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

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

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

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

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