This is great news. A lot of work has been put into the release of FreeBSD 13 and the system has never been as good as it is now. https://unixsheikh.com/articles/freebsd-13-has-been-released-kudos-to-all-involved.html
Whether we deal with technology, religion, science, or any other subject, nothing has ever been more harmful to the human race, both generally and individually, than people submitting to social conformity rather than use the gift of their intellect! https://unixsheikh.com/articles/stop-submitting-to-social-conformity-and-use-your-brain-instead.html
Another timely release of OpenBSD has hit the Internet, and as usual, a lot of work has been put into the latest release. https://unixsheikh.com/articles/openbsd-6.9-has-been-released-kudos-to-all-involved.html
Is it even possible to stay sane in todays world of tech? Well, both yes and no :) https://unixsheikh.com/articles/how-to-stay-sane-in-todays-world-of-tech.html
I have already written about how extremely disappointing it is to watch people cheer in ignorance at having their FOSS work and time exploited by one of the largest and crookiest companies in the world, but you also need to understand something else, if you're into programming, using GitHub Copilot will eventually turn you into a bad programmer! https://unixsheikh.com/articles/using-github-copilot-will-turn-you-into-a-bad-programmer.html
If you're writing any kind of open source code and storing it on GitHub, you need to move it away from the platform NOW! https://unixsheikh.com/articles/open-source-projects-need-to-migrate-their-code-away-from-github-now.html
There exist a bunch of really cool open source backup tools such as Borg and Restic, but did you know that you can use GNU Tar and GnuPG to create encrypted incremental snapshots? https://unixsheikh.com/tutorials/how-to-do-encrypted-incremental-backups-and-snapshots-with-gnu-tar-and-gnupg.html
One of the main benefits of Git is that it is an extremely flexible set of tools with which you can build many development models and branching strategies from. In this tutorial I'll show you my favorite Git workflow that works very well both as a solo developer and in a team with many developers. https://unixsheikh.com/tutorials/a-simple-git-workflow-using-main-as-the-development-branch.html
Have you ever lost important data? I have. I learned doing backups the hard way after I lost a entire book I had just finished writing! https://unixsheikh.com/articles/how-i-store-my-files-and-why-you-should-not-rely-on-fancy-tools-for-backup.html
