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BetBlocker v GamStop

BetBlocker Linux App vs. GamStop Blocker

August 11, 2023 John O'Donnell Reviews

Among the new tools that allow players to control their behaviour and adhere to Responsible Gambling rules are BetBlocker for Linux users and GamStop.

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Responsible Gambling Tools

Responsible Gambling Tools Available on Linux Devices

August 11, 2023 John O'Donnell Reviews

Safe gambling is the key to success, so knowing all the tools and measures to be implemented is essential for everyone.

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Music

Amethyst is an Electron-based music player

August 10, 2023 Luke Baker Multimedia, Reviews, Software

Amethyst is billed as a powerful node-based audio player.

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Tools for Linux Gamers

Useful Tools for Linux Gamers

August 9, 2023 John O'Donnell Games, Reviews

We look at useful tools for Linux gamers which help to make their experience breathtaking.

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Utilities

Excellent Utilities: noti – notification tool

August 7, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Software, Utilities

noti is a small tool written in Go that monitors a command or process and triggers a notification.

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CPU

Machine Learning in Linux: Ollama – self-hosted Llama 2

August 5, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Scientific, Software

Ollama is software in an early stage of development that lets you run and chat with Llama 2 and other models.

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Music

Kronos Is A Terminal Music Player Written in Rust

August 2, 2023 Luke Baker CLI, Multimedia, Reviews, Software

Kronos is a terminal-based music player that’s designed for playing locally stored audio files. It’s written in Rust.

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CPU

Machine Learning in Linux: Text generation web UI

July 31, 2023 Steve Emms Reviews, Scientific

Text generation web UI is software that offers a web user interface for a variety of large language models such as LLaMA, llama.cpp, GPT-J, OPT, and GALACTICA.

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Utilities

Excellent Utilities: pastel – generate, analyze, convert and manipulate colors

July 25, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Software, Utilities

pastel is a command-line tool to generate, analyze, convert and manipulate colors. This tool supports a variety of color formats and color spaces.

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Game Tools

Awesome Linux Game Tools: ProtonUp-Qt

July 24, 2023 Steve Emms Games, Reviews, Software, Utilities

ProtonUp-Qt is software which helps you install custom builds of Proton such as GE-Proton. ProtonUp-Qt sports a graphical front-end

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Game Tools

Awesome Linux Game Tools: MangoHud

July 15, 2023 Steve Emms Games, Reviews, Software, Utilities

MangoHud is a Vulkan and OpenGL overlay to help you monitor FPS, temperatures, CPU/GPU load, and more besides.

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Machine Learning

Machine Learning in Linux: LibreTranslate is Self-hosted Machine Translation

July 13, 2023 Steve Emms Reviews, Scientific, Software

LibreTranslate is a machine translation API which is entirely self-hosted. This software lets you use open source machine translation in your projects.

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ebook reader

Arianna – KDE EPUB reader and library manager

July 10, 2023 Steve Emms Documents, GUI, Reviews

Arianna is a eBook reader built for the KDE Plasma desktop but, of course, runs under other desktop environments.

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Screen capturing

Awesome Linux Game Tools: gpu-screen-recorder-gtk

July 7, 2023 Steve Emms Games, Reviews, Software, Utilities

gpu-screen-recorder-gtk is a GTK frontend for GPU Screen Recorder. It’s billed as a screen recorder that minimizes system performance by recording using the GPU only.

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Game Tools

Awesome Linux Game Tools: libstrangle – frame rate limiter

July 5, 2023 Steve Emms Games, Reviews, Software

libstrangle is a Linux utility that lets you cap the FPS of a game. It’s free and open source software written in C.

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Music

Swing Music is a Web-Based Self-hosted Music Player written in Python

July 5, 2023 Luke Baker Multimedia, Reviews, Software

Swing Music bills itself as a cooler Spotify. That caught my attention. Unlike Spotify, it’s not a streaming service.

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Deep Learning

Machine Learning in Linux: Argos Translate is an Offline Translation Library

July 3, 2023 Steve Emms Reviews, Scientific, Software

Argos Translate is state of the art neural machine translation software. It’s written in Python and published under an open source license.

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RSS Feeds

Raven Reader – cross-platform RSS reading software

July 1, 2023 Erik Karlsson Internet, News, Reviews, Software

Raven Reader is a desktop news reader application. It’s built using Electron, a popular framework with developers.

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Software to help you sleep

Opal – listen to relaxing background music

June 30, 2023 Luke Baker Multimedia, Reviews, Software, Utilities

Opal is a small utility that’s designed to do one thing — listen to relaxing background music. It’s written in Java.

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Music

Festival is a Music Player with a Special Interface

June 30, 2023 Luke Baker Multimedia, Reviews, Software

Festival is a graphical music player for local album collections. It’s written in Rust and published under an open source license.

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