In the last few years, there has been an influx of public VPN services into the market. But many myths and pieces of misinformation about them are now circulating. Sadly, this misinformation is being propagated by the companies themselves and, knowingly or unknowingly, by tech YouTubers who are frequently sponsored by public VPN providers. Here, I am listing a few things these services can and cannot offer. Privacy A VPN is often touted as a one-stop solution for all your digital privacy goals. But in my opinion, when you think of privacy, you should also ask: privacy from whom? From your ISP? Yes. From your national security agencies? Maybe not. ...

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Notepad has been an excellent lightweight tool since the beginning of Windows. But lately, it hasn’t changed much to match the new Fluent Design language of Windows 10. However, there are some excellent third-party alternatives to Notepad. Since version 2004 (the May 2020 Update) of Windows 10, we have been able to uninstall Notepad easily. So you can get rid of Notepad altogether if you are satisfied with the following third-party alternatives: ...

Many developers would agree that Windows is not known for being developer-friendly unless you are developing for the Windows ecosystem. Linux distributions, on the other hand, are very good for development, especially considering that most of your builds will run on Linux-based servers. ...

I was a long-term user of Arch Linux, but recently I decided to switch to Windows. Why? Because I needed to do some media editing, and I had heard about WSL, which promised a more comfortable life for developers on Windows. Installation So I installed a new SSD and started the Windows 10 installation process. The installation went smoothly. Then I opened PowerShell to activate the feature and downloaded Ubuntu from the Windows Store. Finally, I launched Bash and installed git, nodejs, npm, yarn, python, and pip. I was excited to try it all out with Microsoft’s own Visual Studio Code, as it was the only editor that officially supported WSL. ...