Category: Reviews & Opinions
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From Seed to Hand: Unveiling the Ethical Journey of Our Everyday Products
The following blog grew from a seed, a seed that was planted at a restaurant table, some alcohol, and as my daughter and I debated the world. She metaphorically got me pinned against the wall as I tried to defend some people’s choice of occupations, and the retort of “so you would be happy if…
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A Lament About The Loss of Music Stores
I miss music stores. It just struck me listening to St. Vincent’s new album (loving the song Broken Man from it). It shook loose a memory, how I first heard of St. Vincent. For me, it was walking through a music store, this one being the top floor of Eason’s on O’Connell Street, Dublin, Ireland.…
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Spiral Linux – You Little Wonder You
Have you heard of SpiralLinux? If you are a fan of Debian Linux based distro’s then it is well worth your time putting onto a USB and trying out. It has impressed me enough to become my daily distro. My own laptop is following Debian Testing, while the family PC is following the default Debian…
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Adventures with Manjaro Linux – Installation and Setup
I have roamed from the safe lands of Ubuntu and Debian based Linux and arrived at the shores of Manjaro, an Arch Linux based distribution. I could have gone the whole way and spun up Arch, but my command line skills rely heavily on finding the answers online so Manjaro with its GUI interface seemed…
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Xubuntu and XFCE Running on Chromebook
For years, I have been meaning to try out and Linux distro on a Chromebook. Now I have finally made that happen. I have installed XFCE, and subsequently the Xubuntu desktop, onto a Lenovo C330 Chromebook. The best part, it was surprising straight forward. Ideally I would have just gone ahead and installed a ready-to-go…
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