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Das unbearbeitete Bild stammt von Gan Khoon Lay und steht unter der Creative-Commons-Lizenz „Namensnennung 4.0 international“.
Jeder hat bereits Phasen der Niedergeschlagenheit erlebt, war deprimiert. Ein Gefühl, durch äußere Einflüsse wie Enttäuschungen ausgelöst, hat mit der Erkrankung aber nichts gemein. Eine Depression ist eine ernste Erkrankung, die das Leben (Denken, Fühlen und Handeln...
As I briefly mentioned in the post “Building a Media Center”, I use Kodi on various devices to access my media collection. Here, I’d like to go into more detail about the installation and configuration that make this possible.
This configuration requires a device that, in addition to SMB/CIFS (Windows) shares, also offers the ability to host a MySQL/MariaDB database. In my case...
There are countless instant messaging apps on the market. These range from platform-specific apps like Apple’s iMessage to those linked to other services like Facebook Messenger, apps from companies and organizations that offer only this product and the service behind it, all the way to completely open-source software where you have to set up the connection yourself, such as XMPP or Matrix. Howeve...
Having grown up with the dawn of the Internet, I was already connecting via BTX. I ran my own mailbox (bulletin board system, BBS), used it to participate in FidoNet, and shared it with others. Back then, you still had to dial into the Internet via a phone line. So it didn’t make much of a difference to download your messages yourself onto your PC using a modem.
Later, when the Internet came int...
Tor is a network that offers anonymization services without requiring users to understand the underlying technical principles in order to use it. The technical details are not the focus of this article; rather, it focuses on its use and the reasons for using it (without claiming to be exhaustive). “Onion Routing” (or “router”) was originally used as an acronym (TOR), but that no longer matters tod...
Every few years, it’s time to update the existing Office applications. Should I purchase another license from Microsoft—and if so, which one—or opt for a free product? What do I actually need, and what’s included in the various licenses? It’s not just about applications or features, or whether existing documents can be opened without data loss and reused. It’s about weighing the costs and benefits...
The Xbox Media Center (XBMC), which evolved from several media players for Microsoft’s Xbox starting in 2002, was an early alternative to Microsoft Media Center—which could be optionally installed with Windows. Although it required a bit more configuration, it offered many additional features and codecs. With version 14 (Helix, March 2015), the project was renamed Kodi. It was...
On October 5, Microsoft released the new Windows 11, which had previously been available through Microsoft Insider. Although Windows 10 was supposed to be the last version of Windows, the original “Windows as a Service” (WaaS) model remains in place, with the option to obtain a free upgrade using an existing Windows license—almost. While it’s still possible to use a Windows 7/8/10 license key for...