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The Epomaker TH99 Pro looks incredible and sounds amazing right out of the box with its Creamy Jade switches. But what happens when you plug a "smart" keyboard into an Artix Linux machine and the kernel thinks it's a 20-year-old Vivitar webcam? ...

Part 5 of the Sovereign Authentication series. Watch the series here We have looked at the industry standard (YubiKey) and the philosophical idealist (Nitrokey). Today, we’re looking at t...

Stop buying products designed to fail. After four years on the market, the Keychron Q1 proves that hardware should be a tool you own, not a disposable product you rent. In this video, I break down why I scrapped my Razer Huntsman Elite, a $200 p...

Part 4 of the Sovereign Authentication series. Watch the series here In my last video, I crowned the YubiKey 5 as the "King of Keys" but it has a fatal flaw. It is proprietary. For those ...

Part 3 of the Sovereign Authentication series. Watch the series here The "Industry Standard" is usually a warning sign. In this video, we are looking at the YubiKey 5 NFC and 5C NFC. T...

The Pixoo 64 is a great looking piece of hardware that I wanted to like. But after getting it into the studio and putting it through its paces, the verdict is in, the software is a mess. Between the data hungry mobile app and "real-time" counters ...

Part 2 of the Sovereign Authentication series. Watch the series here If you can remember your password, it is weak. Your brain defaults to patterns, and patterns are easy to break. It is ...

Part 1 of the Sovereign Authentication series. Watch the series here Convenience is the enemy of sovereignty. If you rely on SMS or cloud-synced apps like Google Authenticator, you are...

Silicon Valley wants to automate every part of your life, but that convenience has a dark reality. In this video, I explain why I refuse to use generative “AI.” We look at the exploitation of global workers, the theft of creative work, the environ...

If you are watching this without an ad blocker, your browser is an open door for data brokers. But at this point, uBlock Origin is just the bare minimum. In this video, I am sharing the 5 free and open source (FOSS) browser extensions I use to har...

Why is Mullvad the best VPN for privacy in 2026? As they officially retire OpenVPN support (Jan 15, 2026) and migrate to their new Rust-based GotaTun engine, Mullvad continues to stand alone. In this video, we go under the hood of the most...

For decades, “The Year of the Linux Desktop” was treated as a tech world punchline. But as we enter 2026, the data shows the laughter has stopped. Between the forced obsolescence of millions of PCs and a corporate pivot toward intrusive, mandatory...