I’ve been getting into some home automation for our apartment for a while ever since my father got us an Amazon Alexa device to call home with. Since then we expanded our setup to include smart plugs, and Philips Hue lighting. While on their own these produces can work well on their own.

GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG or GPG) is the free and open source implementation of the OpenPGP protocol, that allows you to encrypt and sign your data and communication.

I’m running a fresh install Ubuntu Gnome 16.10 on my XPS 15 and I noticed that whenever I put the laptop in suspend I was unable to connect to my WiFi network upon resume.

Kodi is an open source peice of software designed to provide a media center experience for your video, music, pictures, and applications. It runs of many different platforms including, Linux, OS X, Windows, and Android.

I’ve been playing around with some linux live distributions recently but the main problem I had was the inability to have network support with the majority of them due to my WiFi broadcom chip not being supported out of the box.