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The Fight for 3rd Place: A BlackBerry 10 Retrospective
I promised I would write about it after my Windows Phone retrospective, and now it’s here. You can consider this post centered around BlackBerry part two in this short series. As stated prior, iOS and Android firmly established a dominance over the mobile market, leaving a vacuum for a third party platform. A third option Read more
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More Nord! Extra Ways to Use The Theme
It’s no surprise that I love the Nord color scheme. Although I had known about it for years, my appreciation for it has only grown exponentially. I guess you could say I’m a Nord-aholic. When I think I might want to go back to Dracula or Gruvbox, Nord finds a way to keep me content Read more
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The Fight for 3rd Place: A Windows Phone Retrospective
This post is part one of a two-part series discussing also-ran competitors to the ever-dominant iOS and Android. You can read the second part on BlackBerry here. It’s no secret that smartphones have taken over the mobile and computing world. While some of us are still old enough to remember when pagers, PDAs, and phones Read more
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Revisiting (and Returning To) Vivaldi Browser
The Mid-Aughts: Switching from Internet Explorer to Firefox I’ve used web browsers just like anybody else who’s touched a computer in the past two decades, but it was only around the mid-2000s when I started to actually pay some attention to internet browsers in general. As somebody who used Windows XP (still my favorite Windows Read more
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Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron 15 Years Later: A Retrospective
I saw some of the recent news about Ubuntu 23.04’s release, Lunar Lobster, looking a little more favorable, or at least that was the impression I got from this video by DistroTube. Honestly, I haven’t really touched Ubuntu in the longest time and all, but this release, at least according to DT’s impressions, looks more Read more
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Nord Dark Theme for spotify-tui
Featured Image: spotify-tui running Nord Dark theme in Alacritty with transparency enabled. I was listening to music on Spotify the other day, except I was using the spotify-tui client on Fedora. However, something minor bothered me about my setup on said app: The elapsed time in the center of the progress bar would become unreadable Read more
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Always Upgrade Fedora to the Latest and Greatest via CLI
I’ve been using Fedora since version 33 was out, although 34 came shortly after I started to use it. It’s understandable since my ThinkPad Carbon X1 Gen 8 originally came with Fedora 33 out of the box. (Yes, Lenovo lets you order some systems with Linux installed on them from the factory.) But aside from Read more
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Pretty, Powerful, Productive: My Obsidian Power User Setup
Personal Knowledge Management (or PKM) is such a useful and vital skill in today’s modern world, and I’m certainly not the first person to centralize the things I do want to track in one convenient, easy-to-navigate place. Of course, I don’t happen to focus everything into the second brain I’ve created (that’s why I also Read more
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Let’s Be Realistic About “Free Money” Apps
A QUICK ASIDE: Just to keep full transparency, I won’t include any affiliate links or sweeping endorsements here. This whole thing is me just trying to detail my view and experience with these sorts of apps. As a result, I get to be as honest and critical as I like. I found myself using an Read more
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Betterbird and Mailspring: A Comparison of Email Clients for Linux
UPDATED on July 22nd, 2024. Scroll down to read more information on how I eventually switched full-time to Betterbird. I talked a short while back about how I recently adopted Betterbird as my email client after having used Thunderbird on my old Arch Linux system. To put a long story short, I decided to search Read more
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