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Issue 325 (March 2025) - Firewall your Home

Protect your home network from all the net nasties! We help you firewall your devices and data from intrusion explaining the basics of device isolation to creating guest VLANs and demilitarized zones for better protection, then run ad blocking DNS services and enhance your external network access!

PLUS: Inside Intel Battlemage, protect your passwords, relive punchcard coding days, run your own model train system, use the best screen recorder, get a faster router, discover Auracast next-gen Bluetooth audio, start with Rust, code Space Invaders and loads more!

 Features

Firewall your Home

(Matt Holder)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

Intel Battlemage

(Linux Format)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

Answers

password keyrings, permissions, ownership, partition naming (Neil Bothwick)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

Administeria

2FA (Stuart Burns)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

 Coverdisc

Hotpicks

Handbrake, UMS, Fooyin, Cryptomator, Syncthing, Openboard, TurboVNC, Tux Racer, Luanti, KStars, Remove to WAste (Mayank Sharma)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

 Tutorials

Terminal: Angband

(Shashank Sharma)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

KeepassXC

(Nick Peers)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

OpenStreetMap: JOSM

(Marco Fioretti)
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Bluetooth: Auracast

(Tam Hanna)
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Retro: Punch cards

(Mike Bedford)
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Upgrade - wifi routers

(Neil Mohr)
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Bluesky API

(Les Pounder)
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Pi control trains

(Sean Conway)
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 Coding Academy

Space Invaders part 2

(Nate Drake)
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Start coding in Rust

(David Bolton)
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 Reviews

Intel Arc B580

(Linux Format)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

Manjaro 24.2.1

(Nate Drake)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

Archman 2024.12

(Nate Drake)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

OpenMadriva Lx 24.12

(Nate Drake)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

Window Maker Live 12.8

(Nate Drake)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

Caves of Qud

(Linux Format)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

Raspberry Pi Connect

(Les Pounder)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

Touch Display 2

(Les Pounder)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

Formlabs Form 4

(Denise Bertacchi)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

Raspberry Pi SSD

(Les Pounder)
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Screen recorders

SimpleScreenRecorder, OBS Studio, FFmpeg, Kazam2, VokoscreenNG (Michael Reed)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

 More

News: News

Valve's SteamOS, FOSS finances, Nvidia's new AI chip, RISC-V Roma (Nate Drake)
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News: Kernel watch

(Jon Masters)
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News: Pi news

(Les Pounder)
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