The current COVID-19 pandemic is a terrible thing. Thankfully brains much larger than yours or mine are working tirelessly to understand the virus better and come up with a solution to the problem.
While most of us are sat at home watching Netflix there is an operation under foot to crunch through as muich data as possible in the hope of finding viable treatment options for the virus.
If you split your time between two or more countries it can be a real hassle to manage your online life. Not only do you run the risk of triggering security processes employed by banks, etc but it can also be a struggle to use things like online streaming services which you’re paying for or entitled to use.
But did you know you could also be exposing yourself to data theft by 3rd parties using WiFi in places like hotels and shops?
For these reasons and more, it’s relatively easy to setup your own VPN server.
So by now our home server is sharing files to our home network, acting as a media server via Plex, it’s managing all our downloads AND we’re sharing our personal doucments on our own personal cloud. What else is there?
Well, we’re about to set our server up to act as a VPN node, so that we can access it and other resources on our home network while away from the house.
Quick post to say I’m very pleased to announce that Tech Made Easy now has dedicated Amazon Store pages on both the US and UK portals.
I’ve talked a bit about installing Nextcloud on various devices in recent posts, but thus far I’ve not explained how you can access your server from outside your home network.
Thankfully, it’s relatively easy to do.
Services like Dropbox are great, but I always recoil slightly at the use of the term “The Cloud” when really all that means is “someone else’s computer”.
Many people felt a bit cheated when they first used their shiny new 3900X CPUs. AMD had marketed them as having up to a 4.6GHz boost clock, but failed to mention that this only applied to single core boosts.
Never one to be fully satisfied I decided I needed a faster processor in my personal rig, and seeing as I didn’t have £750 to burn on AMDs flagship 3950X I had to set my sights one rung lower and settle for the 3900X.
If you’re a regular reader you may have noticed that a whole bunch of “old” content has appeared on the site recently.
