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This question, like our last reader-submitted question, is in three parts:
I’ll answer them from top to bottom.
Read More »Lynne Teaches Tech: What are protocols and formats? How do they come to be?This is a revised version of this post.
If you’re buying a computer or laptop or even a phone, there’s a lot of jargon that might confuse you to look out for. It ranges from straightforward statistics to obscure facts to annoying “gotcha”s. This post aims to break them down.
Read More »Lynne Teaches Tech: What do all the components of a computer mean?Mastodon recently added a cool feature that blurs images when they’re marked as sensitive and while they’re loading. I noticed that it automatically hides this blur when the image loads, but it’s trivial to put it back. Combined with the glitch-soc setting to display full images rather than cropping them, we can use two little CSS rules to change those ugly letterboxes and pillarboxes to a nice-looking blurred background!
Read More »A simple glitch-soc tweakThis question was originally submitted via the survey.
Our first survey question! The submitted question asked:
If you’ve always wanted to see your own question answered by a Lynne Teaches Tech post, there’s now an easy survey to fill out to submit a question! The survey can be completed here. The only info that’s collected is your response! You can also just send me a message… Read More »Ask your own Lynne Teaches Tech question!
Update 22/05: Fedilab is now paid on Google Play. These are some apps that I have personally found very useful. I’ll be focusing on more obscure ones rather than apps that everyone’s already heard of, but I will mention a few popular ones if I feel the need to do… Read More »Some Android App Recommendations
This post contains coarse language. Thank you all for participating in my little survey! It ended about 15 hours ago now, so it’s time to look over the results one last time. This post will mostly be about the feedback I received, so If you want to do see a… Read More »Fediverse Survey Summary 3
Update 20/05/19: The survey has ended.
This is the second summary of my Fediverse summary. The first is available here.
The new data has been made available in this Nextcloud folder. It is available under the CC-BY-SA 4.0 license.
Not much has changed since the original summary.
Read More »Fediverse Survey Summary 2Update 17/05/19: Changed the license to CC-BY-SA.Update 20/05/19: The survey has ended. I decided to create a small survey to get some information about the Fediverse. It opened about 16 hours ago, and I’ve already received over five hundred responses!! As promised, the response data is available under a free… Read More »Fediverse Survey Summary 1