How to Create a Live Ubuntu USB Drive With Persistent Storage

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[ArsTechnica] Steve Wozniak Was My Computer Teacher in 1995 "It was less important to me what you teach, and more important to motivate people by making things as fun as you can." [Motherboard] Why It's More Difficult to Focus in Your Noisy Office Than a Chaotic Public Space Researchers find that overhearing work-related conversations is more distracting than listening to random noise. [Mental Floss] How to Schedule a Scan in Windows Defender Windows Defender automatically performs background scans during your PC’s idle moments, but doesn’t include an easy way to schedule a full scan. There is a way to do it, though. Read This Article → How to Create a Live Ubuntu USB Drive With Persistent Storage A Linux live USB drive is normally a blank slate each time you boot it. You can boot it up, install programs, save files, and change settings. But, as soon as you reboot, all your changes are wiped away and you’re back to a fresh system. This can be useful, but if you want a system that picks up where you left off, you can create a live USB with persistent storage. Read This Article → What Does “NP” Mean for a DVI-Connected Computer Monitor? When you get a shiny new monitor for your computer, you will likely take a quick peek at the settings, but sometimes you may see some references or terminology that does not make sense. With that in mind, today’s SuperUser Q&A post has the answer to a curious reader’s question. Read This Article → Amazon Echo vs. Google Home: Which One Should You Buy? Amazon blew the industry wide open with its release of the Echo back in 2014, and has since become the company’s most popular hardware product. However, Google has since gotten in on the fun with the Google Home, a direct Echo competitor that aims to reign supreme. But which one should you buy if you’re in the market for a virtual home assistant? Here are some key points to know about both devices to see which one might be best suited for you. Read This Article → How to Disable Apple’s Backwards “Natural Scrolling” On Your Mac Confused as to why your Mac scrolls up when you drag your fingers down on the trackpad?  Apple calls this “Natural Scrolling,” and the idea is to make scrolling work like it does on touch screens. On the iPhone, you drag content up and down with your fingers. This is intuitive on a touchscreen, and Apple wanted Macs to be consistent with those same gestures. Read This Article → How to Listen to Podcasts at Faster and Slower Speeds on the iPhone We all have our favorite podcasts, but we don’t always have time to listen to them. You can however, speed up your podcasts to 1.5x or 2x speed and breeze through them expeditiously. Read This Article → How to Disable the Built-In “Windows Key” Shortcuts Windows uses the “Windows key” for a lot of useful shortcuts. But if they get in your way—or you’d just like to assign them to different functions—there is a way to disable them all in one fell swoop from the Registry or Group Policy Editor. Read This Article → How to Open the Profile Management Window Every Time You Open Chrome Chrome allows multiple people to use Chrome on the same computer, with each profile having its own custom bookmarks, settings, and themes. By default,  Chrome opens to the profile used the last time the browser was opened. Read This Article → How to Free Up Space on Your Android Phone with One Tap, Thanks to Google Photos Let’s be real here: modern smartphones have limited storage. While they’re coming with a lot more than they used to, it’s easy to fill 32GB without even realizing it. And with today’s high-end cameras, well, pictures and videos can quickly consume a big part of that. Read This Article → How to Create a Bootable Linux USB Flash Drive, the Easy Way A bootable USB drive is the best way to install or try Linux. But most Linux distributions—like Ubuntu—only offer an ISO disc image file for download. You’ll need a third-party tool to turn that ISO file into a bootable USB drive. Read This Article → Does Brand Really Matter When Buying a Hard Drive? When it comes to hard drives, everyone seems to have a horror story about one brand or another that failed them. But are some brands really more reliable than others? Read This Article → Advertisement Download Cyber Ransom Survival Guide: The Growing Threat of Ransomware and RDoS - and What to Do About It It's 9:30 in the morning. You've grabbed your morning coffee and caught up on email. Now you're settling in to read an article online. Suddenly, your machine freezes, and this message pops up: "You have been caught accessing inappropriate content and your device will remain locked unless you pay $$$$." 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