Category: Software
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Dumping Spotify and Paid Music Streaming For My Offline Music Collection
I hinted at the possibility a good while back, but I’ve been rethinking how I enjoy my music over the past few months, and that’s also despite how I said this a good while back now. Why go through all this trouble [with TIDAL, Spotify, and others] when you could just host the music yourself…
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An Arch User Learns to Love Snaps
Or “How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love snapd!” I never thought I’d write about this now, but as a longtime Linux user, I got by using packages in my distro’s default repositories, the AUR, Flatpaks, and the occasional AppImage here or there. When anyone so much as mentioned using Canonical’s Snaps, I usually…
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Launcher 10 Relieves my Windows Phone Nostalgia
NOTE: As usual, this is not paid or endorsed in any way. Rather, this is an honest review of an Android launcher after I used it for a while. Because nobody has paid me to express myself, I get to be as honest and critical as I like. I didn’t update on this during my…
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Make macOS Feel More Like Linux
I have a confession to make. While I love Linux and prefer to use it, I haven’t used my openSUSE workstation in the past few months. My reliable ThinkPad has been collecting dust at home. While I am still free to use my tried and true Arch Linux machine at home, my new job’s network…
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I Won’t Let Internet Time Be Forgotten
I’ll be the first to admit it: I’ve never been a big fan of the metric system. Growing up the way I did, I got used to indicating the weather in Fahrenheit instead of Celsius, I always liked seeing my football teams gain yards to score a first down instead of running meters to kick…
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Searching for a Perfect Linux Calendar App
I’ve been trying to deal with a few more matters related to my productivity as of late, especially considering I’ve had a rather eventful July and August. So many things have been happening, and I’ve needed to find better ways to stay productive. I used to time block on paper a lot more often, but…
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Windows XP Is Still My Favorite Windows of All Time
There have been recent developments with myself being hired by a new employer, which has left me without a job for just a couple of weeks. During that time as I got my paperwork, background check, verification, and so on finished before hire, I found myself with an abundance of extra time. Even with the…
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I Tried 3 Spotify Alternatives within a Month. Here’s How They Compare.
I started seriously using Spotify approximately nine years ago. My current account is the one I’ve stuck with through thick and thin, and it has so much of my listening history from over the years. But I’d be lying if I said the grass didn’t look greener sometimes. I believe it was almost two years…
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Windows is Worsening: Why I’ll Never Go Back
Longtime readers of the blog know I’ve been daily driving Linux since 2020. Said readers may also know I briefly used Linux back in the late 2000s and early 2010s back when I was a young Mr. Hyde, but there are some key differences between both of those stints on Linux (as well as how…
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Learning to Love Vim Shortcuts
I’m still largely thriving on my openSUSE 30-day challenge (with my conclusion coming soon). I even got another few apps installed because I was interested in trying them out for an upcoming project that promises to be exciting, and I promise to post about that should it materialize into something more tangible. Still, one of…
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