In short: Use Garmin if you can afford it. The problem with Polar devices is that they are not only proprietary themselves but you can’t operate them without using additional proprietary software. If you don’t like the default Polar M460 sport profiles and screens (and no, you won’t like them), you must find someone with […]
The 25th anniversary of Linux has been celebrated recently. I can’t remain silent about it because Linux has been playing an important role in my life. In 1980’s, Richard Stallman started a heroic and successful effort to create a free operating system in response to the unfortunate dominance of proprietary operating systems. But in 1990’s, […]
I own a Fairphone now. When I first heard about the Fairphone project it looked interesting to me, but I haven’t thought about it seriously for two reasons: 1. price, 2. I wanted the phone to be fair not only in the production chain but also to its users. When I recently started looking for […]
I was at a Web development presentation some time ago. The presenters from certain company talked about many competencies needed for development of complex Web applications, such as knowledge of Web standards, JavaScript toolkits, Java programming, databases, photo editing, etc. Many things were mentioned, but one important competency was completely omitted: understanding Web accessibility, i.e. […]
Turris Omnia is an open hardware & free software high performance home router. You can still get it for a reduced price for a few days if you contribute to its Indiegogo campaign. I think this is a good deal. Although the router is not cheap, it’s worth the money. There are not many alternatives. […]
Software Freedom Conservancy makes useful work for free software. One of their important activities is GPL enforcement. Whether you think the principle “I give you my source code and if you further distribute it, do so under the same conditions you originally received it” is right or wrong, the fact that some organizations care a […]
Emacs is a powerful tool but it’s better to use other means for Web browsing, such as Firefox. Now the question is how to transfer pieces of Web content from Firefox to Org mode. Org mode already provides means for communication with external applications. org-protocol.el is a general mechanism for importing information to Org mode […]
Privacy Badger 1.0 has been released some time ago. If I could install a single Firefox extension only, it would be this one. It’s very easy to use, effective (AFAICT) and doesn’t cause problems; much better than the other privacy extensions I used (although they can still be useful for special purposes). I can recommended […]
KeyMouse keyboard looks interesting. It seems to be better than any of the other ergonomic keyboards I looked at as it provides all of the following: Everything seems to be reasonably reachable (maybe after remapping some keys). It’s curved. The left and right parts of the keyboard are completely separated, permitting to position the hands […]
Our former country, Czechoslovakia, was replaced by two new countries, Czech Republic and Slovakia, in 1993. When I was in Belgium (country separated from the Czech Republic just by a single neighboring country – Germany) several years later they didn’t know where the Czech Republic was but they knew about Czechoslovakia. It’s interesting the change […]