Tag: technology
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Digital Minimalism and Minimalism Can Contradict
There’s this thing out there called “digital minimalism.” You may have heard of it. In short, it’s mostly the idea of digitally decluttering, using fewer apps and social media services on one’s phone or computer. In a perfect world, this leads to us being more productive with our technology overall because we have fewer things…
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I Used a Physical Keyboard on my Pixel 9 for 3 Weeks: A Clicks Review
Disclaimer: This is not a paid promotion. I paid for the Clicks keyboard in this review out of my own pocket. Thus, I can be as critical and honest about the product as I like. I hope you enjoy. I hinted at it way back when I first started writing about how I turned “The…
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The Black Core 2 Duo MacBook is Still Perfectly Usable
I know when I’ve fallen down a rabbit hole. I’m primarily a Linux user first and foremost; I have a desktop running Arch, a secondary workstation running openSUSE, and a server running Ubuntu. Despite that, and despite the fact that I’ve been using macOS on an M1 at work (because it’s either that or being…
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The Usefulness (and Restrictions) of ChatGPT
While I have joked about it frequently in previous posts, I do casually use AI like many people from time to time. On more than one occasion, I’ll open up ChatGPT and type something in, especially if I feel like it’s a little too specific to search for a search engine alone. I know it’s…
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Why Arco Linux Mattered to Me, a Vanilla Arch User
Readers who’ve been here for a while know I have been daily driving Arch Linux on my primary desktop for five years now, despite what I said about deleting it in a recent post. While I did dabble in Manjaro a few times in the years before then, I went all-in on vanilla Arch. Of…
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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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I Only Consumed Physical Media From a Box for 2 Weeks. Here’s How It Went.
As my longtime readers know, I love watching videos on YouTube. I enjoy streaming videos from it whether it’s from my Linux machines or even my Xbox console. I even went as far as becoming a YouTube Premium subscriber for the past many years by now, as I love watching videos on my living room…
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Combine Your Second Brain with Zettelkasten
I’m already approaching an entire year of using my current second brain for my personal knowledge management. In case anybody doesn’t remember, I stopped using my old one because it became so bloated with information that didn’t quite matter to me. Instead of scrapping the idea altogether, I decided I just wanted a fresh start…
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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 (UPDATED)
NOTE: I made a few updates now recommending both yabai and Sketchybar in addition to the other tools already listed in the post. 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…
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