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Lenovo Legion Go Review: A PC Gamer’s Dream Portable

High-end Windows PCs have always been the best devices for the best graphics in the latest video games, but what if you want to play some of those PC games while you’re bored sitting on a plane or train on your way to somewhere else? Well, there are plenty of gaming handhelds available in the […]

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Unihertz Jelly Star Review: There’s nothing like this gorgeous tiny Android phone

Have you ever missed the old days around the turn of the century when smartphones were designed to fit in your hand and actually be usable with that hand? In 2004, the i-mate JAM was the talk of the town in the tech world for being small and powerful. That was one of my favorite smartphones […]

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8 ways the Fediverse is better than Meta Threads by Instagram

Meta (Facebook) released yet another social media network app called “Threads by Instagram”. It’s basically a clone of the Twitter interface, but automatically lets you follow everyone you follow on Instagram. That’s the thing that made it so popular so quickly… all you have to do is log in with your Instagram account. This makes […]

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Fashion

Dressing Generations Fashion Show

On June 25, 2023 an interesting fashion show was held at the Hutong restaurant bar in New York City. It was organized by several recent Fashion Institute of Technology graduates to showcase their work.            View this post on Instagram                       […]

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Event

Sumo and Sushi 2023

The Sumo and Sushi event came to New York City on its last stop of the East Coast tour on June 23-25, 2023. It took place at the Armory Track on 216 Fort Washington Ave., New York, NY 10032. I don’t think it’s ever been possible to see a sumo wrestling match in New York […]

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Tech

The most intelligent people on the internet use this instead of Slack, Teams, or Discord

There are hundreds of messaging apps out there these days.  Slack is one that has recently become popular for business communications as has Microsoft Teams. Discord is another one that’s become popular with gamers and other consumer communities. These are all, at their very basic level, just “type message, press send” programs. There’s nothing particularly […]

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Tech

The Fediverse should avoid bundling Private Messages completely and implement this instead.

Many servers in the Fediverse have implemented “private mentions” or “private messages” or “direct messages” in a manner that uses the ActivityPub protocol without encryption. Fediverse server administrators are able to read all of these private messages on the server which means they’re not really private.  Some have suggested making them encrypted so that server […]

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How to make your own Delta Chat Email Server and compete with WhatsApp/Signal/Telegram

(Also published here: How to make your own WhatsApp, Telegram, or Signal competitor (pocketnow.com)) If you’ve been watching what’s been happening to Twitter since it was bought out by Elon Musk, you might have recently realized the advantages of using more sustainable, federated, decentralized, and open technologies (Such as Mastodon and the Fediverse). Or maybe […]

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Tech

The G5 HP Z Series Workstations are crazy powerful

I love using my HP Z series workstation during my day job of web design, environment design, animation, and brand identity design, but these new Z series workstations are on a much higher level than my old Z desktop. They’re on another level when it comes to price points as well depending on the configuration […]

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Understanding Mastodon, the Fediverse, and why you should migrate from Twitter

The Fediverse is an incredibly good idea that should seem pretty obvious to anyone who has ever made a phone call, driven on roads, mailed a letter, sent an email, or browsed the web; decentralized, federated systems are stronger, fairer, and more sustainable than centralized dictatorships. That’s exactly what the Fediverse is except instead of […]