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In a refresh of an episode last released in 2018, this is the updated for the 2020s edition of KW’s everyday carry. There’s been some changes since the ‘almost everything Apple’ version of this several years ago, so come along and get nosy as we snoop through Knightwise’s updated EDC. LINKS Minimal Bag – Everyday … Continue reading "KW1702 – What’s in My Bag Now?"

Back for the first episode of 2023, Knightwise is joined by a couple of guest hosts this week to talk technology challenges, and working in a world of ubiquitous data availability. LINKS DISCORD The action is happening over at our Discord server: Join by clicking this link CREDITS

After a summer hiatus Knightwise is back with a bit of a deep dive into creating your own interconnected network with Tailscale. LINKS TailScale DietPi DietPi on KW 1403 xRDP Keyboard Layouts PuTTY TOR DISCORD The action is happening over at our Discord server: Join by clicking this link CREDITS Music: Good Day to Die … Continue reading "KW1608 – Tunneling with Tailscale"

A quick mini-podcast this week inspired by the Knightwise.com community and a discussion over on the Discord. LINKS Wijngaardbos Henis Midnight Commander NC Spot Castero NewsBoat RainbowStream IRSSI Libera.Chat Joplin CLI DISCORD The action is happening over at our Discord server: Join by clicking this link CREDITS Music: Drop it Like It’s Spock by KFaceTV … Continue reading "KW1607 – Conquering the Command Line"

A quick mini-podcast this week inspired by the Knightwise.com community and a discussion over on the Discord. LINKS Joplin DISCORD The action is happening over at our Discord server: Join by clicking this link CREDITS Mix & Production: Keith Murray

On this week’s walk Knightwise presents some food for thought about how we manage our private information online, and how those managing our social networks manage us as a result. LINKS Its Me App Hot Pink Slippers Flickr 30k Dataset Don’t use ISP DNS DNS DNSSec Firefox Brave Protonmail Joplin NextCloud Belgian Trains DISCORD The … Continue reading "KW1605 – Data and the Erosion of Privacy"

For two decades the era of “Linux on the Desktop” has been just around the corner. This week Knightwise takes us through a discussion of how he’s using Linux to drive some tasks for work, and how the pandemic-driven changes of 2020 might have helped push more Linux to the forefront. LINKS Linux Distros SUSE … Continue reading "KW1604 – Linux for a Living"

Podcasting has always been a way for those who don’t otherwise have a platform, to get out and share what’s on their mind, share their knowledge and experiences, and do it without having to buy your own small-town radio station. This week Knightwise takes us on another walk through the Belgian countryside to tell you … Continue reading "KW1603 – We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Transmitters"

This week on the podcast Knightwise takes on the topic of retro computing. Whether virtualized or involving the resurrection of old hardware here are some ideas to put some older tech to use for you in 2021. LINKS The Internet Archive – Software Archive Macintosh Garden RetroPie RetroArch DISCORD The action is happening over at … Continue reading "KW1602 – Retro Computing"

Welcome to the first episode of Season 16 of the knightwise.com podcast. Picking up where we left off at the end of Season 15 with a show about the iPad Pro and how KW puts that to work on a regular basis. LINKS The iPad (Wikipedia) DISCORD The action is happening over at our Discord … Continue reading "KW1601 – Letting the iPad Pro Work for You"

After ten years have past since the launch of the famous iPad tablet we take a look back through history and ask ourselves: Is the tablet ready to serve as a replacement for our desktop? We rant about the pro’s and cons of android vs IOS and how Microsoft came close to the holy grail. … Continue reading "KW1507 Tablets through time."

In the second part of “Lockdown Lifestyle” we focus on filtering the information coming your way via Social Media and being aware of the “reality distortion field”. We train you to help tech organize your day and talk about the goals you want to set for yourself. LINKS Bobiverse Series by Dennis E. Taylor [Good … Continue reading "KW1506 Lockdown Lifestyle part 2"

We are back (from the dead?) with a new show talking about the impact of “working from home” during the lockdown. In part 1 of a two-part episode we talk about how to use technology to enhance your digital (and analogue) lifestyle during the lockdown. How do you use tech to separate Work/Life/Play and stay … Continue reading "KW1505 – Lockdown Lifestyle Part 1"

The Discord roundtable is back again this week with the perennial discussion among technology and open source enthusiasts – Will we ever see the year of the Linux Desktop? LINKS Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Launch WSL 2.0 CREDITS Mix & Production: Tim King

Your ears do not deceive you, in this time of social distancing and zoom-based happy hours, the members of the knightwise.com discord bring you a roundtable of geeky goodness. CREDITS Mix & Production: Keith Murray

This week producer KD join’s Knightwise to talk about resolutions (or not), goal setting (or not) and setting up some guiding lights for your year with annual themes. LINKS Cortext Podcast – ep. 20 [YT] KW1402 – Fighting Your Distractions KW – I Forgot How to Nerd CREDITS Mix & Production: Keith Murray

Welcome to 2020!This week Knightwise takes us through a list of projects to help stretch our geek muscles and maybe try out some new ways to use or think about technology as we slide into the new decade. We’ve got, things to learn, ways to protect your privacy and your data, projects to try and … Continue reading "KW1501 – 10 Geeky Projects for 2020"

Sliding from operating system to operating system is always cool, but the borders between the different OS’es sometimes make things hard. What if we took those away? We show you how using Virtualbox to merge your machine’s, your applications and your files using Virtualbox. Links Virtualbox Installing Guest Additions Sharing Folders with Guest OS Live … Continue reading "KW1405 – Merging Your Operating Systems"

This week on the podcast Knightwise is back in the car as he dives into the philosophical side of creativity with some thoughts on how to get from wanting to create, to having done some creating. Links iRiver 790 Review [CNET, 2004] Zoom H2 [Wikipedia] Download the mp3 Credits Mix & Production: Keith Murray Music: … Continue reading "KW1404 – Enabling your Creativity"

This week we dive into the wonderfull distro called Dietpi. We discover its a great way to turn a single board single purpose computer into a multi-function wonder-device. We take it a step further by showing you what DietPi can do for your Raspberry Pi and your home Linux server. Another raspberry-jam-packed show with hacks … Continue reading "KW1403 – A Slice of DietPi"

On this episode of the Knightwise.com podcast we talk about fighting your online distractions. Besieged by lolcats, social media, popups and the Google quest to find out which starship captain was both in Star Trek and ‘Murder She Wrote’, we look for a way to get fight distractions and things done. Another storytime episode to … Continue reading "KW1402 – Fighting Your Distractions"

ER ER is an American medical drama television series created by novelist and medical doctor Michael Crichton that aired on NBC from September 19, 1994, to April 2, 2009, with a total of 331 episodes spanning over 15 seasons Track: ER theme Sindrilla remix: ER Main Theme (Sindirilla Remix) Battle of the Planets Battle of … Continue reading "KW1401 – Favourite Retro TV Tunes"

This week Knightwise talks about cutting the cable and some thoughts about what this could mean for not just your pocketbook, but also your sanity. There are tons of places you can get content that you source and curate yourself. Come join us to hear about a few. Producer’s note: Originally recorded in 2017, but … Continue reading "KW1305 – A Soundseeing Tour of Brussels"

This week Knightwise talks about cutting the cable and some thoughts about what this could mean for not just your pocketbook, but also your sanity. There are tons of places you can get content that you source and curate yourself. Come join us to hear about a few. Producer’s note: Originally recorded in 2017, but … Continue reading "KW1304 – Cutting the Cable"

A little more than a decade after Amazon introduced the Kindle and turned the eReader market on its head, Knightwise reminisces about some of the earlier reading experiences and provides recommendations for a bunch of great reads. What’s in the bag…? Logitech K811 MS Sculpt Macbook Pro + DongleTown iPad Pro + Apple Pencil Ikea … Continue reading "KW1303 – Everyday Carry"

A little more than a decade after Amazon introduced the Kindle and turned the eReader market on its head, Knightwise reminisces about some of the earlier reading experiences and provides recommendations for a bunch of great reads. Devices Kindle Voyage Handspring Visor Sony PRS 505 Books A Thousand Suns A mindfulness guide for the Frazzled … Continue reading "KW1302 – A Look at Knightwise’s Kindle"

There are those times in life when you want to do things because you can… and sometimes you can leverage that in getting done all that you need to do. Links Youtube-DL on GitHub PodGet on GitHub GoodReader for iOS Termius Knightwise.com Facebook Group Code Snippets Download your ‘watch later’ playlist youtube-dl -u -p -f … Continue reading "KW1301 – Getting iOS and Linux to Play Nicely Together"

We’re back and getting ready for another season of geeky goodness on the Knightwise.com podcast. Come check out this latest edition, and find out where to connect with the community as we’ve done a little house cleaning. Links Knightwise.com Facebook Group Credits Episode produced by Keith Murray Image courtesy of TheDigitalArtist on Pixabay

We’re back and getting ready for another season of geeky goodness on the Knightwise.com podcast. Come check out this latest edition, and find out where to connect with the community as we’ve done a little house cleaning. Links Knightwise.com Facebook Group Credits Episode produced by Keith Murray Image courtesy of TheDigitalArtist on Pixabay

Something a little different from Knightwise this week with a little soundseeing tour of the Brussels Central train station. Links Brussels Central on Google Maps Credits Episode produced by Keith Murray Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

Something a little different from Knightwise this week with a little soundseeing tour of the Brussels Central train station. Links Brussels Central on Google Maps Credits Episode produced by Keith Murray Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

This week Knightwise dives back into a topic to help you make better use of hostile foreign computers. With the proliferation of high-speed high-capacity USB thumb drives it’s easier than ever before to carry your computing workload with you and run your life from a stick. Links PortableApps KW602 – Life on a Stick Credits … Continue reading "KW1203 – Stick It"

Sometimes the way to achieve “less” is to make more use of the things you already have. If the thing you already have is a fairly powerful old laptop, what you may find is that it makes the perfect home server. This week Knightwise tells us all about the laptop with the new lease on … Continue reading "KW1202 – One Linux to Rule Them All"

Less. It’s often been said that less is more. For those of us who lean towards a more technology-inspired lifestyle it can often be challenging not to try out the next new thing. One more app, one more device, one more Linux distro. But maybe, just maybe, sometimes we’re better off seeing what we can … Continue reading "KW1201 – Less Is More"

Home Screen? You want to know what’s on Knightwise’s home screen? This is the episode for you. Knightwise talks about all the key apps on his shiny new iPhone and how he uses those to get things done, and maintain his slider’s lifestyle. Links OtterBox Strada Folio Case [OtterBox] KW906 – CyberZen Dying Nokia Ringtone [YouTube] Music … Continue reading "KW1109 What’s on my iPhone"

With all the news lately about the risks to your online privacy and personal information knowing how to look after your data has become an essential skill. It’s not too difficult to do this at home where you have full control of your environment, but what do you do when you’re at work? Links Opera … Continue reading "KW1108 Protecting your Privacy at Work"

We’re back! It’s the first episode of 2017. Knightwise reinforces the sliders ethos by kicking Linux to the curb — well sorta. Links The blog post that started this “Windows on the Dell“ Music Lightning Traveler – Summer [Jamendo] Credits Episode produced by Keith Murray Toolbox picture by Darren

What happens when Knightwise and KD get to chatting during an early morning commute? Episode KW1106: PodSafe Tunnels. Links The History of Podcasting [timeline] Daily Source Code [wikipedia] KW History “Another Day“ Music DJ SMaKC – Devoutkast [MashupTown] Credits Episode produced by Keith Murray Shanghai Tunnel picture by Manuel Joseph

The knightwise.com podcast is back this week with a splash of cold water and a dose of plain old common sense. This week we talk about some strategies to keep you, your devices and your data out of nefarious hands. Vigilance, my friends. Links xkcd 936 – Password Strength VeraCrypt [wiki] Music Specter Whitefish – … Continue reading "KW1105 60 Minutes of Common Sense"

On this edition of the Knightwise.com podcast KW has a co-host! Keith & Knightwise delve into the use of “squares” and how the proliferation of screens has led to both the generalization and specialization of devices. Links Knightwise.com – APAD Palm m505 [wiki] Palm Treo 700p [wiki] Sony PRS-505 Unboxing Music Lindsey Stirling & Peter … Continue reading "KW1104 Picard Syndrome"

This week Knightwise delves into the world of words and how he gets the words out of his head and down onto the virtual page across the myriad platforms that he finds himself. There are lots of different editors for different kinds of jobs. Check out a whole bunch of them on this week’s episode … Continue reading "KW1103 The World of Words"

It’s time to get virtual. On this installment of the podcast Knightwise delves into the topic of virtualization and talks about how to make the most of a single piece of hardware by letting it do the job of multiple different machines. We are also joined by special guest Matthew Williams of Open FOSS Training … Continue reading "KW1102 Thinking Inside the Box"

We’re Back! After a long winter’s nap the Knightwise.com podcast is back for another season of cross-platform goodness. Season 11 kicks off this week with Knightwise doing something he hasn’t done in a few years. Come along for the ride as our intrepid host talks about managing work, life and your multiple selves in the … Continue reading "KW1101 The Knightwise Identities"

This edition of the knightwise.com podcast brings another product review. This time Knightwise cracks into the Dell XPS 13. This laptop brings with it one distinguishing feature that not many mainstream laptop vendors provide: it’s preloaded with Linux. Pop in those earbuds or crank up the car speakers. It’s time to dive in with the … Continue reading "KW1006 Reviewing the Dell XPS 13"