natebowie

Turning a Physical Book/Doc into an ebook/doc with OCR

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjVXKuySF5Y Here I go into how to scan physical books and documents, run optical character recognition (OCR) using Tesseract to ...

10 Years on Linux

A little over a decade ago Windows 8 was entirely unusable for me. I’m not referring to the mobile-style UI and bloat that marked a change in Windows, but I mea...

The Mullvad Browser is Neat

--- Mullvad Browser --- The other day I saw a post from the Tor Project about them collaborating with Mullvad on a browser project. It’s pretty much the Tor Bro...

$35 Chromebook to a full fledged laptop ➡️ Installing Another OS (revised ed.)

https://youtu.be/Ktlnf1RQCg --- My previous video on this topic is sitting at nearly 3k views on YouTube, making it one of my most watched videos. Ironically, h...

3 Structures of Private Messengers, how they work and their Pros/Cons

Video Version https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAxC8uLeI --- Text Version --- Today I thought I would talk about messengers, specifically, the different types of...

Would Creators Benefit from RSS? (IMO, yes)

Quick Tip: You can get a feed for your own Hive.Blog profile by sharing https://hiverss.com/[@yourname]/blog such as: https://hiverss.com/@natebowie/blog --- Pr...

Creating Hostable RSS Feeds from Scratch

Video Version https://youtu.be/z5R7z0ConU --- Text Version After a little trial and error I’ve found what I think is the best way to manually create an RSS file...

Get RSS Feeds for Nearly Anything

Video Version https://youtu.be/ywiW42LBzjs --- Text Version I wrote a bit about feeds already, namingly why feeds are The Best™, how to make a self hosted feed ...

Consider Checking Out Mastodon

Thought I would share a video on the federated social media platform Mastodon. If you've been following me it'll be obvious this video isn't by me, but is a gre...

The Best™ way to follow content (RSS Feeds)

Video Version Sorry, the video's audio didn't turn out too good, though it's not a total loss. https://youtu.be/qjD0JiReno8 Text Version I hopefully got your at...

[If Things Get Dicey 2] First Aid/Trauma Kits

Video Version https://youtu.be/PyNIxj1l0MU --- Text Version Like my last article, I figured I would continue covering a couple of things I think might be useful...

[If Things Get Dicey 1] Networking/Digital Communication tips + Power/Misc

Video Version: https://youtu.be/wdS0IZIUbw --- Text Version: I was thinking about taking a bit of a detour from the content I usually make and make a little on ...

(meme/comedic edit) I took Dutch Bushcraft Knives out of context

https://youtu.be/78a8oeuoN-o Dutch Bushcraft Knives is a YouTube channel run by two guys who review knives and other outdoors content. If you’re interested in t...

Gallium OS turns a $35 Chromebook into a full fledged laptop

Video Version: https://youtu.be/MgvFISuBBYc --- Text Version: A little while back I posted a quick video of me running Firefox on a Chromebook. Chromebooks them...

(Meme) Me RickRolling a 'Hacker'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0gb9xjPqsI Been a bit busy lately, but was investigating a suspicious link and just had to make a meme out of it. Enjoy...

Could You Build an Internet in The Apocalypse? - (yes you can)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSFz6xm523o --- Wrote this a while back, finally got around to making a video version of it. If you're looking to read it in tex...

Crossing a Supervolcano - Day 3 & 4

--- Join me for my third and fourth days walking 32 miles across the crater of an ancient supervolcano....

Using OSMamd when Google Maps Break

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NW1ylLHqxnI Just a quick vid recorded on the 19th. Got a notification that google maps was apparently broken, but OSMand can alw...

Putting a NATO band on a Russian watch

https://youtu.be/b2mZmBqZuHU Purchased a cloth 'NATO' band for a watch back in the end of 2021 and finally got around to trying it out. Since then things have c...

How To Build A Mini Internet From Scratch (inspired by the walking dead)

It’s currently February 26th as I have just finished writing this. I have probably been working on it lazily for a month or two, and since then obviously Ukrain...