Everything we explain in the videos, written down properly — with the commands, the trade-offs and the parts that do not fit into sixty seconds.
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Windows collects telemetry. Linux is transparent. A side-by-side comparison.
🐧 LinuxA 2012 ThinkPad against Windows 11 — how Linux gives old hardware a second chance.
🐧 LinuxThe Linux kernel runs your hardware — explained without the jargon.
🐧 LinuxLinus Torvalds from 1991 to today — and the moment Linux quietly won.
🐧 LinuxTwenty-five seconds of clicking against two seconds of typing — the same task.
🐧 LinuxAWS Free Tier against a Linux VPS for a złoty a month, with the maths written out.
🐧 LinuxWhat changing one SSH password teaches you about securing a whole server.
🐧 LinuxNetflix, Spotify, Google — who already moved, and what they were actually after.
🐧 LinuxThe rwx letters are not a magic spell. They are your security model.
🐧 LinuxThree licences, three sets of rules. What you may do with the code, and what you may not.
🏠 Self-hostedSync to a NAS you own, with Nextcloud on top. Your cloud, your disk.
🏠 Self-hostedWhat Google knows about you, next to what your own NAS knows.
🏠 Self-hostedDocker and docker-compose — four commands and your media library is live.
🏠 Self-hostedA storage bill every month against a box you buy once. Do the maths.
🏠 Self-hostedHoliday photos that stay yours, with backup from every phone in the house.
🏠 Self-hostedThe USA or Warsaw — GDPR, jurisdiction and what data sovereignty actually means.
🏠 Self-hostedA smart home with no subscription: bulbs, thermostats and automations that stay local.
🏠 Self-hostedChange it on the desktop, see it on the phone. How syncing actually works.
🏠 Self-hostedOne millisecond from the next room against 150 from the other side of the Atlantic.
🏠 Self-hostedA fire, a local server and one copy somewhere else — disaster recovery in plain terms.
🧩 Open sourceWhat share of Android is actually open — and who gets to audit it.
🧩 Open sourceFrom Linux 1.0 in 1991 to Android today — how one kernel ended up under most of the world's technology.
🧩 Open sourceRed Hat, Canonical, Apache — where the money in free software actually comes from.
🧩 Open sourceThirty countries, one codebase — a map of commits from around the world.
🧩 Open sourceThree licences, three philosophies — and how to pick one for your own project.
🧩 Open sourceOpen code can be read end to end. Closed code you simply take on trust.
🧩 Open sourceGoogle, Microsoft and Amazon pour money into the Linux Foundation. What exactly for?
🧩 Open sourceA free suite against a subscription — what you actually gain, and what you give up.
🧩 Open sourceClosed code against ten thousand pairs of eyes — which one ends up with fewer holes?
🧩 Open sourceWhy volunteers build and maintain the infrastructure the world runs on.
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