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Google has recently made the decision to enable their generative artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot and virtual assistant called Gemini formerly known as Bard across their products and services without the user’s consent by default.

On March 19, 2025 version 48 of GNOME desktop environment was released introducing a new free and open source graphical application called Decibels.

Today I felt it necessary to discuss an important change going on that more people should be made aware of.

One of the must-read comprehensive documentation online for Arch Linux operating system is a community run wiki known as ArchWiki that is made available in over thirty languages.

Upon reflection, I’ve noticed in the past that I had too many projects on the go and as a result they either never were started or remained incomplete.

I was reading Kev Quirk’s blog while I came across a post entitled Ten Pointless Facts About Me that prompted me to think that I too should join in on this blogging trend.

For too many years to count I’ve been scanning photographs and documents using a dedicated image scanner and now a multifunction printer with the scanner built-in.

More than thirty days has passed and that means I’m over due in releasing a new issue of Little Bits.

This Saturday, September 20, 2025 is a special day when people get the opportunity to celebrate worldwide Software Freedom Day (SFD).

The Mozilla team has released version 143.0 of Firefox on September 16, 2025 with some interesting new features, better privacy protections, security fixes and improvements.

I find it quite frustrating how we are in 2025 and yet web designers or those in charge continue to release designs that do not respect the user and create an annoying user experience.

On GNU/Linux or Unix graphical desktop environments that have adopted the XDG (Cross-Desktop Group) desktop menu standard have a menu system made up of applications, directories and links.

It is unfortunate, but sometimes our software applications do not have all features accessible in the Graphical User Interface (GUI) even in cases where it would make the most sense.

It is astonishing to me that I’ve been using GNU/Linux as my primary operating system for over 10 years.

We are in a time in history where more often then not businesses have shifted their focus away from offering products and/or services that provide solutions with money being the by product.

Quite sometime ago I said Goodbye to Neofetch and moved on to using Fastfetch.

The minimalistic web browser Dillo was originally intended for use with an older or slower computers and embedded systems.

Software rights of users is vitally important to protect our freedoms especially in a time when the users are being openly under attack without many even being aware.

The graphical file manager GNOME Files formerly and internally known as Nautilus is capable of accessing the root directory (folder), but unfortunately this may not be apparent to everyone.

It’s quite common for most users to use a web browser to download files periodically because it is effective in getting the job done.

A common web design element is having a fixed or sticky navigation bar at the top for quick access while scrolling through the website.

Around the beginning of December 2023 a popular free and open source software project of Android applications called Simple Mobile Tools was rumoured to be in the process of being acquired by the company ZipoApps.

The past month has been a busy one full of change not just in the technology industry, but also within my own life.

Several months ago I was gifted the MageGee MK-Box 65% mechanical compact wired gaming computer keyboard from a customer return.

It’s without a doubt that our lives are unfortunately over run by endless information and clutter that can interfere with our ability to complete a task and even ruin the user experience.

May has come and gone, and since I wrote about the benefits of thrifting and my experience last year in the post The Annual Community Garage Sale Haul of 2024 I thought it would be fitting to do this same this year.

Another month has past and that brings another new issue of Little bits for the month of June.

When powering on or starting a GNU/Linux and Unix operating systems the first process that handles the preparation of the system is called init.