This is not a normal post, but rather an announcement. We are removing our Facebook account. Meta’s Vision of the Future Meta, the parent company of Facebook, has shown that it is objectively evil. Our goals at Tech Tea and the goals of our tech overlords are incompatible. Meta wants…
“Read the Manual!” First answer to your technical question. If you’ve ever asked a technical question online before you’ve probably come across this at least once. You don’t know how to do something so you ask online and only get angry replies that don’t help. Often you worded the question…
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Last time we covered the various story formats in the Twine 2 game engine. Today we are going to add logic to our game using SugarCube’s Macro system and make a door that needs a key to open. You can find SugarCube’s docs here.
Last time we discussed what twine is and how it works. Today we will cover the Twine 2 story formats. Story formats are a way to add logic and mechanics to twine. This is the second in a series of videos about the Twine Game Engine. In the future we…
NoiseTorch is a small FOSS Linux app that removes background noise picked up by your microphone. It creates a virtual microphone that isolates vocals. This is great if you are in a noisy environment when on a call or recording a video. Let’s take a look at how it works.…
Linux is the most popular open source operating system today and it has some clear advantages to Windows and Mac in terms of freedom and privacy. Today we will cover our top reasons why we use Linux on our desktops. What is Linux? Linux is a free and open source…
We use passwords everywhere to secure our important accounts, but how secure are your passwords? A password manager does what the name implies: it manages your passwords. Today, we are going to look at how they work and how they improve our security. The Problem with Passwords Passwords are designed…
Twine is a cross-platform FOSS tool for making interactive fiction and choose your own adventure style game books. This is the first in a series of videos about the Twine Game Engine. In the future we will write an accompanying article for each of our video uploads. Till then please…
Mastodon is part of the decentralized social media network known as the Fediverse. It has grown in popularity as social media sites continue to disrespect their users’ privacy, independence, and time. Today, we are going to look at Mastodon and how it solves many problems with the modern web. Mastodon’s…
You will hear the terms Free and Open Source software (FOSS) and Libre software thrown around everywhere nowadays. Open source is everywhere, from Firefox to Android to even the software that this website uses to function. The philosophy behind free software has been the driving force for much of our…
Happy new year! 2020 was quite a year for all of us. A deadly pandemic swept across the land, nations continued to fight, global censorship increased, and we did our best to continue with our every day lives despite all of it. It was a tough year, but we made…