Andre Franca

Why are there so many different keyboard sizes and layouts? Is it possible to find the perfect keyboard? Will we type better or faster with a “high-end” keyboard?

We often need to share a photo with someone special, but what usually goes unnoticed is the amount of metadata that is embedded in every pic we shoot.

I recently read the article “Qualcomm sampling Wi-Fi 7 silicon for next-gen access points” on The Register website, and it made me think how fast technology is evolving to the point that we don't even have time to keep up with it. Which leads me to the question: Does technology really need to evolve that fast?

Inspired by what I saw on Luke Harris' blog, I decided to create a short summary of interesting things that I did or happened in the past month, e.g., this blog. Yep, it's a newborn blog, and I'm very proud of it.

How many opportunities do we let go when we're passively using our phones?

Not long ago, my wife started calling my attention about me staying hours on the phone. At first, I disagreed – I think most people would do the same, because in an unaware state, we tend to do things like this. After some insistence from her, I decided to check if that was true. I'm an iPhone user, so I set up Screen Time. For those who don't know what this app is, it basically maps how many hours we spend with our phones and which apps consume most of our time.

It's not recent that I've read people positioning themselves, sometimes aggressively, about Canonical's decisions and the direction they are going in relation to, for instance, funding the company or the snap thing.

Some time ago, searching for some more privacy-respecting softwares to replace the bad ones I used to have installed, I was introduced to the Privacy Guides website, recommended by the folks from the Techlore Channel.