Author: Lioba Ferreiro
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A Vpn on Mobile and When It Helps
Read more: A Vpn on Mobile and When It HelpsI spent thirty-four years in a physics classroom watching students stare blankly at equations, waiting for someone to strip away the jargon and show them the actual mechanics underneath. Most…
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Input Devices and Wrist Comfort
Read more: Input Devices and Wrist ComfortI spent thirty-four years in a classroom watching students struggle with clunky, unresponsive peripherals, but nothing frustrated me quite like the marketing gloss of modern tech. Most people think they…
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Ad Blocking on a Phone
Read more: Ad Blocking on a PhoneI was sitting at my workbench yesterday, squinting through my loupe at the delicate escapement of a 19th-century carriage clock, when my phone buzzed with a video notification. Before I…
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Charging Wattage in Practice
Read more: Charging Wattage in PracticeI spent thirty-four years in a classroom watching teenagers nod along to formulas they didn’t actually grasp, and I see that same glazed look whenever people talk about modern electronics.…
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What End to End Encryption Protects
Read more: What End to End Encryption ProtectsI spent thirty-four years in a classroom watching teenagers stare blankly at equations, waiting for some magical moment of clarity that usually only came when I stopped talking and started…
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A Screen That Registers Phantom Touches
Read more: A Screen That Registers Phantom TouchesI was sitting at my workbench last Tuesday, squinting through my jeweler’s loupe at the escapement of a 19th-century carriage clock, when my tablet decided to stage a coup. It…
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Mah and What It Does Not Tell You
Read more: Mah and What It Does Not Tell YouI remember sitting at my workbench last Tuesday, surrounded by the tiny, brass guts of a 1950s mantle clock, when my grandson asked why his new phone died so much…
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Encrypted Messaging and Its Backups
Read more: Encrypted Messaging and Its BackupsI spent thirty-four years in a physics classroom, and if there is one thing I learned, it is that people love to hide complexity behind shiny marketing terms to sell…
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Why Your Photos Are Soft
Read more: Why Your Photos Are SoftDon’t let those flashy software advertisements fool you; you cannot simply sprinkle digital magic dust over a mess of light to make it perfect. I’ve spent my retirement hunched over…
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Adding a Monitor to a Laptop
Read more: Adding a Monitor to a LaptopI spent thirty-four years watching students stare blankly at physics equations, but nothing compares to the glazed look people get when they start reading a monitor spec sheet. They get…