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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Distro Hopped Again – Hello Xubuntu and XFCE
Like all things, my hardware keeps getting older, but nothing’s stopped working yet so until things go bang let’s make the most of what we have. KDE and Kubuntu were fantastic, I do really enjoy that desktop environment, and it shows as I have been hopping between that Gnome (and Unity) since 2007. Out of…
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KDE Neon – The Ultimate Stable Desktop For KDE Fans?
I am distro hopping again. I really enjoyed my time with openSUSE, but eventually I could reinstall Ubuntu again without just staring at the blinking cursor on a black screen. I moved back to Ubuntu purely because I feel more proficient with its use, and this just giving me a little more peace of mind.…
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A leap out of the dark. Moving to Opensuse
This is going to be an adventure… I came home on a Friday night to turn on the PC to find nothing but a black screen and blinking black cursor. Not the first time I have seen this, except that on this occasion I could not get past it. I keep Ubuntu 18.04 LTS on…
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Sena 3S Review – Bluetooth for the Masses
Communication is key to any relationship. It becomes even more important is if that communication gives you just another reason to be out on two wheels. But did you ever use those wired intercom systems? I did, with the unit wired under the seat, power from the battery, and then a host of connections for…
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Rev’It Pioneer OutDry Boots
Rev’It Pioneer OutDry Boots After a year in the Rev’It Poseidon Suit (review here and photos here) I am adding the Rev’it Pioneer Boots to my wardrobe. What a boot these are! They are new arrivals to the Rev’It catalogue at the end of 2016 and certainly match the marques now standard high quality. Unboxing…
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