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Tag: routine
How to check the accommodation for hidden devices
Here is the winter holiday season and a lot of people travel and use apartments, hotel rooms, AirBNB etc. Hidden cameras and sound recording devices are small and stealthy. There is no way to be 100% sure that our room is not “wired”, but we can look around in the network if we use it and investigate our surroundings.
Continue reading “How to check the accommodation for hidden devices”Slowing down for the End-Year Holidays
We are at the end of the year, and what a year! Now everything is slow and peaceful but the Cyber Threats. Stay safe and be careful during the vacations!
Happy New Year from Tom’s IT Cafe!
How to use Python virtual environments in Visual Studio Code?
I need both Linux and Windows environments at the same computer. I have been a Linux desktop user for almost 20 years, but some of the tools I use recently require Windows 10. Dual boot was a great solution, but it required double hard disk space and maintenance. One of my daily driver tools is Windows-only and a heavy GPU consumer, thus I changed my primary OS to Windows, and my Linux experience relies on WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux).
Continue reading “How to use Python virtual environments in Visual Studio Code?”Thoughts about (home) office productivity
Although home office was a thing for more than a decade for technologists, it came into a spotlight recently with the international lockdowns.
People formed two groups, the first group is those who support and like the home office and remote work, and the other group is convinced that work can only be done in an office with people in the organizational structure and with “real” visibility.
I spent almost a decade working on-site, and I can sum-up another decade of home office as well, so I think I have a fairly good overview of both worlds.
Continue reading “Thoughts about (home) office productivity”How to read faster and boost the productivity?
I like to read books and articles. I do it on paper and digitally as well. I try to read every day, but my pile of “to read” is just growing constantly. Additionally I like to enjoy and understand well what I read. In the end of the last year I started to experiment with speed reading, I watched a lot of videos, I read many articles and I tried to apply the newly learned things in my reading. I think I found out the answer for the question. At least for my case.
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