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Chaski – modern RSS and Atom feed reader

September 20, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Internet, Reviews

Chaski is an RSS and Atom feed reader with offline reading, search, filters and feed synchronization support.

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Meloville – local music player

September 15, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia, Reviews

Meloville is a desktop music player designed for listening to and managing a local music collection.

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BOSGAME VTA-439

BOSGAME VTA-439 – Running LLMs on the Ryzen AI 9 HX 470 NPU

September 14, 2026 Steve Emms Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

I test FastFlowLM on the BOSGAME VTA-439, running local LLMs on the Ryzen AI 9 HX 470’s 55 TOPS XDNA 2 NPU.

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Minisforum M2

MINISFORUM M2 – Does Linux Schedule Panther Lake Correctly?

September 10, 2026 Steve Emms Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

See how Linux schedules the MINISFORUM M2’s Panther Lake P-, E- and LP E-cores across single-threaded, bursty, FFmpeg and full-load tests.

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NPBackup – secure and efficient file backup solution

September 9, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, GUI, Reviews, System Software

NPBackup adds a GUI, scheduling, monitoring and multi-repository management to restic’s encrypted, deduplicated backup engine.

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Beelink Mini PC

Beelink EQi 304 Mini PC – NPU and Llama

September 8, 2026 Steve Emms Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

I test the Beelink EQi Core 3 304’s 15-TOPS Intel NPU with OpenVINO and Llama 3.2 1B to see how useful modest NPUs really are.

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Music

Revisited: SparkPlayer – visually appealing media player now with gapless playback

September 7, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia, Reviews, TUI

SparkPlayer adds gapless playback for seamless album listening, alongside visualizers, album art, video support and broad format compatibility.

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WyrmRSS – RSS and Atom feed reader

September 6, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Reviews

WyrmRSS is a free and open source RSS and Atom feed reader with desktop and self-hosted options, feed filtering and YouTube support.

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GNOME Extensions

50 Excellent GNOME Shell Extensions for GNOME 50

September 2, 2026 Steve Emms Desktop, Reviews, Roundup

Discover 50 excellent open source GNOME Shell extensions compatible with GNOME 50, covering docks, tiling, monitoring and customization.

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syndicationd – terminal RSS and Atom feed reader

August 31, 2026 Steve Emms Internet, Reviews, TUI

syndicationd is a terminal RSS and Atom feed reader with local storage, flexible filtering, feed management, and configurable key bindings.

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rustic – fast, encrypted and deduplicated backups

August 27, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, System Software

rustic is a secure backup tool with deduplication, encryption, compression, and local and cloud storage support.

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ATK Blazing Sky F1 V3 Series Esports Wireless Mouse Review

August 26, 2026 Steve Emms Accessories, Hardware, Reviews

ATK Blazing Sky F1 V3 Ultimate+ wireless mouse, covering Linux support, 37g weight, PAW3955 sensor, 8K polling and battery life.

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MINISFORUM M2 Panther Lake Mini PC – NPU and Llama

August 25, 2026 Steve Emms Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

Benchmarking the Minisforum M2’s Intel NPU with Llama 3.2 1B and OpenVINO, including speed, TTFT and AMD Ryzen AI comparisons.

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Monitor System

amdtop – TUI system monitor designed for AMD GPUs and XDNA NPU

August 24, 2026 Steve Emms Reviews, System Software, TUI

amdtop is a terminal-based system monitor for computers powered by AMD hardware.

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Netgear Orbi

NETGEAR Orbi 770: Are the Guest and IoT Networks Really Isolated?

August 22, 2026 Steve Emms Accessories, Hardware, Reviews

Testing the NETGEAR Orbi 770 shows Guest Wi-Fi isolates LAN devices, while the IoT SSID does not.

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TEAMGROUP T-Force G70 PRO 2TB SSD M.2 2280 NVMe Review

August 20, 2026 Steve Emms Accessories, Hardware, Reviews

TEAMGROUP T-FORCE G70 PRO 2TB SSD review under Linux, testing PCIe 4.0 performance, sustained writes, random access, temperatures and endurance.

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Minisforum N5 Pro

Minisforum N5 Pro NAS – NPU with FastFlowLM

August 19, 2026 Steve Emms Hardware, NAS, Reviews, Scientific

FastFlowLM puts the Minisforum N5 Pro’s 50 TOPS AMD XDNA 2 NPU to work under Linux for local LLMs and private AI server workloads.

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File Managers

Flux – multi-threaded Linux file manager

August 18, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Productivity, Reviews

Flux is a fast, minimalist GTK4 file manager for Linux with archive browsing, network access, content search and extensive keyboard control.

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izrss – terminal-based RSS feed reader

August 17, 2026 Steve Emms Internet, Reviews, TUI

izrss is a terminal-based RSS feed reader written in Go.

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Minisforum N5 Pro

Minisforum N5 Pro Review – Five-Bay NAS with Ryzen AI 9 Power

August 13, 2026 Steve Emms Hardware, NAS, Reviews

Minisforum N5 Pro review with Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, Ryzen AI 9 HX PRO 370, NVMe storage and 10GbE networking.

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