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

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CREDITS

• Mix & Production: Keith Murray
• Music Credits
  • Ketsa – Retro Metro [Free Music Archive]
  • Zeta – Bird Song [Free Music Archive]

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

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CREDITS

• Mix & Production: Keith Murray
• Music: Tri-Tachyon – Nanophage [SoundCloud]

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. Topped of with some fancy tunes from ScannTec its another show from the Knightwise.com bunker.

LINKS

• The iPad (Wikipedia)
• The Surface Go (Wikipedia)
• The Logitech Folio Touch case

DISCORD

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CREDITS

• Mix & Production: Knightwise
• Music: Scann Tec – Phone call [Youtube]

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 Reads]

DISCORD

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CREDITS

• Mix & Production: Knightwise
• Music: The Midnight – Prom Night [Youtube]

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 sane during crazy times.

[Lockdown Lifestyle part 2]

LINKS

• Lastpass
• Blocksite
• Focuswriter
• Simplenote

DISCORD

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CREDITS

• Mix & Production: Knightwise
• Music: Italo Brutalo – Avion [Youtube]

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 services you might want to support.

Links

• Distrowatch
• TED Talks
• Pocket Reader
• KeePassX
• LastPass
• DietPi
• OpenVPN
• Google Authenticator for Android or iOS
• GitHub
• Debian Bug Report
• Google Photo Scan
• Archive.org
• Audacity
• Hacker Public Radio

Connect with the Community

• Telegram Group
• Knightwise.com Facebook Community
• Download Link

Credits

• Music: The Midnight – “Los Angeles” [YT]
• Mix & Production: Keith Murray

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 Show
• Telegram Group
• Download Link