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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 Read more
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Omnivore: A Read-It-Later App I Actually Want to Use
UPDATE: As much as I liked using Omnivore, this page didn’t age too well. As of November 2024, Omnivore is shutting down, which will prompt me to continue my search for an alternative. Switching jobs sometimes requires moving out of where you live, further than you expected. Moving can also be expensive, expensive enough to Read more
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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 Read more
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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 Read more
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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 Read more
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Working Image Previews in Krusader on a non-KDE Desktop
(NOTE: Skip this top section and scroll down to “Just Give Me The Solution” if you just want the answer to fix this right away.) I have another quick Linux tip here, and this one is about Krusader, the Qt5-based, double-pane file manager for Linux. If you just recently installed Krusader for the first time, Read more
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Play Podcasts in the Terminal with Castero
I had an itch recently to listen to some podcasts again, something I haven’t done as often as I used to several years ago. While I am aware that Spotify has some pretty nice podcast support, that’s mostly for the GUI app. Trying to listen to podcasts on spotify-player doesn’t really make sense for me Read more
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When Deleting the Swap Partition Leads to Slow Boot Times
I Just Want to Fix This Problem! This is part of my “Quick Tips” for Linux; you’ll want to skip this starting section and go straight down to “Just Give Me The Steps!” if you’re in the same boat I was. Otherwise, if you want to see if your situation regarding swap partitions is similar Read more
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My Top 3 Tiling Window Managers
It’s no secret that I’ve been exploring Arch, Fedora, and openSUSE for the past few years. While I did use Ubuntu back in the late-2000s, I only used Kubuntu briefly before really going all-in on Arch during the lockdown a few years ago. Still, the point is that I have experience with the aforementioned list Read more
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Friendship Restarted with openSUSE
(OR How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Hyprland) It’s April 2nd at the time I type this (with my actual publishing date being a few days afterward). As I mentioned before, the day has finally come! I survived on openSUSE for 30 days using it as a workstation system. So now that I’ve Read more
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