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Essential System Utilities: WTF – terminal dashboard

January 23, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Software, System Software

WTF (also known as ‘wtfutil’) is billed as “the personal information dashboard for your terminal”.

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PQMusic – minimalistic audio player

January 18, 2023 Luke Baker Multimedia, Reviews, Software

PQMusic is billed as a minimalistic and easy to use open source audio player written in Python. Let’s see how it fares.

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BrosTrend 650Mbps AC5L Linux WiFi Adapter Review

January 11, 2023 Steve Emms Hardware, Reviews

This review looks at the BrosTrend AC650 AC5L Linux WiFi Adapter. The adapter has a theoretical maximum of 433Mbps transfer speed on 5GHz or 200MBps with 2.4GHz Wi-Fi.

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Excellent Utilities: Nushell – flexible cross-platform shell with a modern feel

January 9, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Software, Utilities

Nushell is billed as a new type of shell. The aim is to adopt the Unix philosophy of shells where pipes connect command together.

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Excellent Utilities: Oh My Zsh – framework to manage your Zsh configuration

January 4, 2023 Erik Karlsson CLI, Reviews, Software, Utilities

Oh My Zsh is an open source, community-driven framework for managing your Zsh configuration.

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BrosTrend Linux WiFi Adapter AC1200 AC3L Review

December 30, 2022 Steve Emms Hardware, Reviews

This review looks at the BrosTrend Linux USB WiFi Adapter AC1200 (AC3L). Unlike most Wi-Fi sellers, BrosTrend provide Linux support for Ubuntu and Ubuntu-based distros.

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Excellent Utilities: Zellij – terminal workspace with batteries included

December 26, 2022 Steve Emms Reviews, Software, Utilities

Zellij is billed as “a workspace aimed at developers, ops-oriented people and anyone who loves the terminal”. It’s written in Rust.

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Utilities

Excellent Utilities: Rnote – sketch and take handwritten notes

December 23, 2022 Steve Emms Reviews, Software, Utilities

Rnote is a vector-based drawing app for sketching, handwritten notes and to annotate documents and pictures. Here’s our review.

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Music

Musicly – simple music player

December 21, 2022 Luke Baker Multimedia, Reviews, Software

Musicly is billed as a simple and elegant music player. It’s cross-platform software written in JavaScript. Here’s Luke’s review.

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Laptop

Lenovo ThinkPad T470 Ultrabook running Linux – Part 5 – Multimedia

December 19, 2022 Steve Emms Blog, Multimedia, Reviews, Software

For this part in the series, we investigate the multimedia performance of the Lenovo T470 laptop including power management.

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