Tag: Switching
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Giving Brave Browser a Try for a Week
I’ve been a bit busy with a few things as of late, including personal matters as well as the next major submission for the blog. It’s coming and will be ready in due time. Until then, here’s a brief one. I was reminded of the existence of Brave Browser once again in the past few…
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I Used an Android “Dumbphone” for 7 Days. Here’s How It Went.
Here it is: the follow-up to my previous blog post detailing how I would try to make my full switch to the Android-powered Xiaomi Qin F22 Pro, a quasi-smartphone in a “dumbphone” form factor, for 7 straight days. How did everything go? Day 0 Wait, Day 0? Does this mean I actually went above and…
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Transitioning to a “Dumbphone” Part 2!
Deja vu? No, I’ve written about this subject before, but I failed miserably to switch last time. In case anyone forgot, this phone runs Android while featuring the look and feel of a mid-2000s feature phone. It looks like a perfect compromise between wanting to be a digital minimalist while still having a few “smart”…
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There’s No Reason to Run Manjaro
I realize this post may come off as rather negative, but I do want to make it clear that I don’t harbor some sort of hate for Manjaro. That said, I also didn’t write this post just for the sake of mindlessly bashing a specific Linux distro. If Manjaro had none of the issues I…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Use What You Already Have to Get a “Dumbphone”
As I discussed in a few previous posts, I’ve made attempts to simplify my life before starting with my smartphone. Humorously, I remember being a younger Mr. Hyde around 2010 when Android phones were really starting to pick up traction, when the idea of digital convergence was truly exciting. The future looked so bright to…
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How to Theme Qt Applications in a WM on Arch Linux
As I detailed in my recent reinstallation of Arch Linux, I had quite a bit to set up all over again for the first time. That also included my keeping Qt5 applications consistent with my GTK equivalents. While I do prefer some GTK-based apps, I happen to enjoy a good handful of Qt apps too.…
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Friendship Ended With openSUSE
I detailed as much a few days ago, and it’s part of why I haven’t written quite as much as I was hoping I would this past few days, but I spent a massive amount of time troubleshooting my PC where I accidentally my Arch installation (not a typo). Reinstalling Arch was no big deal,…
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