kew is a music player with gapless playback. It’s written in C and published under an open source license. It was previously called cue. I review the latest release.
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Category: Reviews
tap v0.4.11 – terminal-based music player
tap is a terminal-based music player that lets you jump to any album with fuzzy-finder shortcuts. Here’s my take on v0.4.11.
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ttop – system monitoring with historical snapshots
ttop is a system monitoring tool with historical snapshots and alerts. It has a top-like TUI. It’s written in Nim.
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Intel NUC 13 Pro Mini PC Running Linux: BIOS
Let’s turn our attention to the BIOS (Basic Input/Output System). This is firmware used to start the PC system after it is powered on.
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Raddiola – simple radio app
Raddiola is billed as a simple radio with a clear and concise interface. Here’s our verdict.
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Intel NUC 13 Pro Mini PC Running Linux: Installing Manjaro
For this article in the series, we explore installing and configuring Manjaro on the NUC 13. Manjaro is an Arch-based Linux distribution.
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libjxl – reference implementation of JPEG XL
JPEG XL is a royalty-free raster-graphics file format that supports both lossy and lossless compression.
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Intel NUC 13 Pro Mini PC Running Linux: Gaming
For this first gaming article about the Intel NUC 13 Pro, I’m going to revisit some of the games I previously tested on the HP EliteDesk 800 G2 Mini PC.
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QOI – The Quite OK Image Format
QOI is an image encoder which claims to be fast 20-50 times compressing and 3-4 times faster decompressing compared to the Libpng library.
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Intel NUC 13 Pro Mini PC Running Linux: P-Cores and E-Cores
This article focuses on the two different cores present in the Intel NUC 13 Pro. They are Performance-cores (P-Cores) and Efficient-Cores (E-Cores).
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Crunch – lossy PNG image file optimization
Crunch is a command line executable that performs lossy optimization of one or more PNG image files with pngquant and zopflipng.
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Excellent Utilities: eza – replacement for ls
eza is a modern, maintained replacement for ls, built on exa. It has some new features such as hyperlink support.
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Fastfetch – fetch system information
Fastfetch is a system information tool written in C. It aims to be a faster alternative to the hugely respected Neofetch tool.
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Machine Learning in Linux: Terminal GPT – ChatGPT 3.5 with no API keys
Terminal GPT (tgpt) is a cross-platform command-line interface (CLI) tool that allows you to use ChatGPT 3.5 in your terminal without needing API keys.
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Intel NUC 13 Pro Mini PC Running Linux: Power Consumption
For this instalment in the series, we’re going to examine the power consumption of the NUC 13 Pro Mini PC and compare that to a couple of desktop machines.
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g – powerful and cross-platform ls
g is an alternative to ls with lots of configurability. It’s written in Go and published under an open source license.
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spectrum is a terminal-based music player
spectrum says its a simple and intuitive terminal-based music player for tech enthusiasts. It comes with a visualizer, equalizer, and lyrics support.
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Intel NUC 13 Pro Mini PC Running Linux: Configuring Ubuntu 23.10
This article explores configuring Ubuntu Desktop 23.10 on the Intel NUC 13 Pro.
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Intel NUC 13 Pro Mini PC Running Linux: Installing Ubuntu 23.10 Desktop
For this article in the series, I’ll explore the simple process of installing Ubuntu 23.10 on the Intel NUC 13 Pro.
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goread is a terminal-based RSS/Atom feed reader
goread is an RSS/Atom feed reader for the terminal. It’s written in Go.
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