Tag: technology
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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
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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Why is My Nextcloud Snap Using More Storage?
Here’s another one of my quick Linux tips, this time largely dealing with what happens to a Nextcloud instance installed with Snap as it takes up too much mystery storage. How Did You Fix It? I still recommend reading up on this before jumping to the solution in case you had the same issue I…
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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…
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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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