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Danie van der Merwe ✅

Topics I blog on:

and - desktop is Manjaro KDE

and - my passions

- tech which is making us greener

especially with FOSS

- I have a BMW R1200GS

- I do play WoT

and - with a view of tech being used here

- wish I'd discovered it 40 yrs back

- focus on the tech

- a new hobby

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How To Use VIM Editor - Because if you've not used it for years you won't be able to exit it

See anto.online/guides/how-to-use-

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Relectrify Launches 120kWh-2MWh Commercial & Industrial Battery Product Made From Second-Life EV Batteries

See cleantechnica.com/2021/03/04/r

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Survey: The State of Enterprise Open Source in Enterprise-Sized Companies across 13 Countries

See redhat.com/en/enterprise-open-

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Many small gasoline engines can be safely modified to run on natural gas or propane with a kit providing a reliable alternative fuel source in the event that gasoline is difficult to obtain in an emergency situation - hackaday.com/2021/03/03/genera

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Why does a delivery from in USA take 6 days Inc weekend to arrive at my door in but local takes longer from Johsnnesburg to Cape Town?

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Ample: Another battery swapping project for EVs which can reduce charge time down to 10 minutes or less, but this is now autonomous

See mashable.com/article/ample-ev-

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Electric Boda-Boda Motorcycles Launch: A Promising Day For Electric Transportation In East Africa

See cleantechnica.com/2021/03/02/e

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My observations after returning back to an iPhone after 9 years of using Android

See gadgeteer.co.za/my-observation

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The Framework Laptop: Upgradeable, repairable, and 100% yours

See frame.work/

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Transport & Environment's New Study: Electric Car Batteries Need Far Less Raw Materials Than Fossil-Fuel Cars

See cleantechnica.com/2021/03/02/e

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Monitor your Raspberry Pi with a free Grafana Cloud account, or host open source Grafana yourself

See opensource.com/article/21/3/ra

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Downdetector is a site that crowd sources online services outages in South Africa

See downdetector.co.za/

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Singapore reveals open-source blockchain COVID-test result tracker, eyes uses as vaccine passport app

See theregister.com/2021/03/01/blo

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We really need a pier again in Cape Town... why not as an extension at the V&A Waterfront?

@VandAWaterfront@twitter.com

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Deep Nostalgia uses video reenactment technology to animate faces in still photos

See usatoday.com/story/tech/2021/0

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Tasker’s latest beta lets you create a custom sleep tracker on Android and process data locally

See xda-developers.com/tasker-beta

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The Famous BASIC Computer Games Book Gets A 2021 Update And You Can Help With Porting The Code Too

See hackaday.com/2021/02/26/the-fa

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The City of Shenzhen has 16,000 Electric Buses & 22,000 Electric Taxis, and its air is much cleaner...

Watch at youtu.be/0P7fTPLSMeI

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1Password has none, KeyPass has none... So why are there seven embedded trackers in the LastPass Android app? LastPass says you can opt out though

See theregister.com/2021/02/25/7_t

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How to Remote Play Steam Games Without a Steam Account using Steam Link

See how it works at lifehacker.com/how-to-remote-p

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