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REVIEW: 6S Foldable Wireless Stereo Headphones
My old small foldable headphones recently stopped working properly, and they were getting tatty, so I quickly looked for a suitable replacement set. These 6S foldable headphones were highly rated on...
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Hello Endeavour Linux! Goodbye Endeavour Linux?
I finally got round to trying Endeavour Linux on one of my laptops, a Dell Latitude E6500. I have read good things about Endeavour, it often tops "best Arch based distro" lists and has some neat...
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REVIEW: Stainless Steel Metal Watch Strap Wristband Bracelet For Xiaomi Mi...
Having been through several of the original rubbery Mi Band straps, and a few of the third party straps, the last of which broke in several places, I decided to get a metal watch strap for my gen 4 Mi...
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HARDWARE REVIEW: M-Audio M-Track Solo USB Audio Interface
I had a few issues with my old Digidesign Mbox2 FireWire input boxes (I have two) and decided that I needed an upgrade to a modern USB device, and having looked at all the options, an M-Audio M-Track...
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Portable Dreams... YouTube Channel For Older Portable & Handheld Gaming
I have had a YouTube channel for over a decade and it has gone through various topics and changes, but the last 18 months I have revamped it and honed in on my passion for portable and handheld gaming....
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Linuxiversary… Two Years With Linux Mint
Today marks two years of me using Linux full time, this time last year I was still getting used to the switch from a life time of using a Mac (over 20 years to be more precise), but a further twelve...
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Goodbye Endeavour Linux, Hello Manjaro!
Goodbye Endeavour!After a surprisingly long stint of usage with Endeavour Linux on my Dell Latitude E6500, one night the streaming app, the one I specifically installed Endeavour for, Mkchromecast,...
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Old But Gold: Lenovo Thinkpad T430s
I was getting tired of using the battered old Dell Latitude E6500 as my main laptop, and my Thinkpad X201 needs the fan replacing, so that's out of action, so I needed another laptop to use. Thankfully...
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How To Bring Back The "Leave" Option in the KDE Desktop Right Click Menu
About a month or so ago, a KDE update removed the "Leave" option in the right click menu on the desktop for what I see as no sensible reason. It does not exactly take up much space! I have years of...
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Upgrading the mSATA Drive In My Dell Latitude E7250
I have had my Dell Latitude E7250 for just under a year. It is a great little fifth gen i5 laptop with 8GB RAM and a 13” screen and more than copes with everything I throw at it.I’m not a gamer, but it...
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Windows Phone In 2022... Could I Use One?
I am having issues with my Android phone, audio in calls keeps cutting out, so I wanted a cheap phone to test if it was a network issue or a phone issue and I thought it would be a great opportunity to...
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From a 2006 Macbook to a 2012 Macbook Pro, what a difference!
So, I got a mid-2012 MacBook Pro as a birthday present, yes I know what you're thinking, I'm a Linux man, why have a Mac? Well, right now, making music on Linux is tricky, the JACK control system is a...
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Bad Moto: The Motorola Moto G22
A few months ago my beloved Motorola Moto G10 started having microphone issues, so I looked around at what budget Motorola phones were on the market and the G22 looked a good spec phone for its price.I...
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Samsung Galaxy A12… It’s Quite Good, But It’s A Samsung
After my recent debacle with my Motorola Moto G22 and the retailer agreeing to take it back, I was left in a familiar position of not having a phone to use. I was in need of one quickly, so rather than...
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I got a Dell Vostro 3300 for a bargain price and it works just fine after a...
A charity I used to volunteer from put a Dell Vostro 3300 on their eBay and idly just put the minimum bid on, 20 quid, thinking I would probably not get it, got outbid once, but then put a bid on an...
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Returning to Music Player Daemon - Cantata vs Mpdevil
A while ago I tried Music Player Daemon (MPD) with my music, but found it wouldn't see half my collection and I gave up on it. That was a long time ago so I recently decided to try it again to see if...
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Shotcut Video Editor: How To Create a Simple YouTube Video With a Still Image
Here's just a quick and simple tutorial on how to make a basic video from a still image and some audio. I usually make these simple videos for uploading my own music to YouTube. I used to use web apps...
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Linuxiversary... Three Years With LinuxMint.
Today is my third ‘linuxaversary’, that’s three years using Linux full time, leaving a twenty year relationship with Apple behind in 2020 and what a journey it has been.I wrote an article on the first...
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Rant: Google Has Ruined Google Photos On The Desktop
It's not often I complain about free services, but Google Photos used to be good, other than the occasional glitch it was very useful. That is until very recently when Google made the web app more...
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Installing a full Linux distro on my Acer Chromebook 14 CB-431
So I was having trouble with my Chromebook. When editing photos with Google Photos it would slow down then freeze. After testing in another user account with no extensions or add-ons, it still had the...
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From KDE Neon to Manjaro KDE on my Acer Chromebook 14
So, I only had KDE Neon on my Acer Chromebook 14 CB3-431 for a short time but there was no way round the performance issues with YouTube at 1080p. You can't really install another DE on Neon because...
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Upgrading to KDE Plasma 6.0 - a rocky start for KDE Neon User Edition
When I read about the first stable release of KDE Plasma 6, I thought I'd probably just wait awhile until I try it, but of course I forgot that KDE Neon User Edition would get it so soon. Well, the...
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From Manjaro to KDE Neon on My Dell Vostro 3300
So there was a huge update on Manjaro recently to KDE plasma 6 and it killed Mkchromecast again on my Dell Vostro, but this time I wasn't able to get it working again. However I worked out how to get...
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How To Install Mkchromecast on Ubuntu and Ubuntu based Distros
Mkchromecast is a way to stream any sound from your desktop to your Chromecasts, which to me makes it a lot more useful than the Android app for streaming, particularly for streaming offline music to...
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From Google Pixel 4a to Pixel 8a
Well my Google Pixel 4a's battery has become so bad that 5 or so minutes of video recording is enough for it to shutdown, and much like my first gen Pixel years ago, it can no longer determine the true...
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