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Rant mode: ON
It's been a day of crappy user experience with software. The only known remedy for such state of affairs remains unchanged over the decades: ranting about it on the Internet. Rant mode on.Hey Skype,...
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Review of the Happy Hacker 2 Keyboard
It's hard to imagine a better day-to-day keyboard to put in front of a serious work computer. The Happy Hacker keyboard skips some of the novel innovations of other alternative designs, and focuses...
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Paean to the Mix Tape
When I hear “stream” I think of piss. You’ve got streaming audio, cloud repositories of millions of tracks, probably from more artists than you’d have time in a lifetime to fully appreciate, much less...
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For a few months in 2014, I had fun reviewing one Linux distro every Friday for Pipedot.org, a tech site to which I was a regular contributor. Generally what I would do is visit DistroWatch.org, choose...
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Shut your Pi-Hole
I first heard mention of the Pi-Hole project on Hacker News, and was instantly intrigued. Pi-Hole is a system that, when installed, turns your Raspberry Pi device into a local, caching DNS server. You...
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This isn't fun anymore
Angry guineapig courtesy of angryapps.netThis isn't fun anymore.There was a time when the web was new, and you could wander among countless troves of information, read articles, browse products and...
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Trackball Nirvana
Sometimes, you are just drawn to a technology or a tool, there's no explanation, and there's no going back. That's the way it was with me and trackballs: I'd only had a laptop for a few months when I...
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Linux in 2001: as good as it ever got
SuSE Linux 8.1So, in a bout of nostalgia, I laid hands on an old DVD containing SuSE Linux 8.1 pro and installed it in a VM, and have been using it all week. I last installed this OS in about 2001 on a...
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From Samsung Note 3 to Note 9
I bought a Samsung 3 in 2013, and used it relentlessly for the next six years. That's a long time, but thanks to the now-banished feature of a replaceable battery, I was able to prolong its life by...
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Review of the Logitech K380 and K580 Keyboards
I'm a fan of Logitech and their products, so when it came time to buy a new, wireless keyboard for my systems, I enjoyed checking out their latest: the K580 and K380 wireless keyboards. Here is my...
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Mageia Linux 8: So Much to Like
In 2001 when I first ditched my Win98 install and turned to Linux, Mandrake and SuSE were about neck-and-neck in the competition to be the most user-friendly consumer Linux distribution, with niceties...
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The MP3 Player
The year is 2021, and I was thinking about getting a device to play my music collection. I had simple requirements:It must be Internet-connected, so it can receive arbitrary firmware updates that risk...
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The Chromebox
So, to start with the conclusion, our main household machine is now a Chromebox, and it's working out. It's not perfect, but it's way better than our previous situation, which was a Mac. Read on.The...
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Easiest Upgrade Ever
File partition diagramSuccess stories are boring. But writing only about difficulty fills the published world with information that only provides half the picture. I keep reading stories about how...
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A Quiver of Fountain Pens (Reviews)
Happiness is a good pen, smooth paper, the right ink, and time to write.In 1989 I began writing regularly in a journal. That same year, it occurred to me that the experience would be even nicer if I...
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