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Pixel 7 Pro Review

I have been on a bit of an adventure when it comes to my mobile phone. For the last year, I've been on the Galaxy S22+, which I purchased used off of Amazon (or refurbished). It served me well, but as the year went on, the battery life got progressively worse. So bad, in fact, that it would only last about 2 hours on a charge.

So, I decided that I need to upgrade. Yes, I could have paid for a battery replacement, and I still might do so (I still have it), but I like new stuff, so I deci...

2023 Linux Predictions

Tyler and Matt discuss last year's predictions and give six new, sure to be right, Linux Predictions for 2023.

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Discord - 2023-01-07 01:50:06 +0000 UTC View Post

Coming Up This Week (Jan 1 2023)

I'm going to be getting back into posting this each week. Though how well I follow this, IDK. I'm going to try.

Fedora vs OpenSuse

5 Most Important Linux Apps

Regolith Linux

ViFM: Is it Good?

What is Silverblue (this one is outlined already)

OpenShot: Is it Good?

For the stream tonight, I will probably find a distro to look at, but we'll see. I definitely need to plan ahead or the streams will be a no go before I even get into a streak.

Goals for 2023

Happy New Year.

I know it has been a while since my last blog post, so sorry about that, but the holidays and RL were happening, so it just kind of fell by the wayside. Blogging weekly is something I hope to get back into this year.

I hope everyone had a great holiday season. Mine was quite good. Spent a lot of time with family, which makes all the headaches worth it for sure.

Now that we're entering a new year, I wanted to spend some time thinking about my goals professiona...

Ricing & Patching DWM - Speed Run

Another (Pathetic) attempt at a ricing speedrun. This time I install, patch, and rice (Kinda) DWM. 

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New Steam Controller? KDE Tiling Window Manager? DEATH! To Google Maps-

Tyler and Matt discuss a new Steam Controller, KDE Default tiling, and Linux killing Google Maps? All that and more on our last episode of the year. 

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Cinnamon Desktop: Is it Good?

Today I talk about the Cinnamon Desktop Environment, and determine if it is good, and who should use it. 

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Eufy Security Problems and Mozilla in the Metaverse

Tyler and Matt discuss Eufy's security issues and their horrid response, Mozilla's continued attempts to do things other than make a good browser, and some exciting stuff from XFCE!

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2022-12-10 02:13:09 +0000 UTC View Post

Pop!OS Cosmic Desktop, Steam Deck is Winning, and Wins for the Fediverse

Tyler and Matt discuss the delay of Twitter and Elon's shenanigans, Fosstodon, The Steam Deck and much more of this week's Linux news. 

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Discord - 2022-12-03 00:59:44 +0000 UTC View Post

Thoughts On NaNoWriMo

So, I'm going to talk about writing today. I know it's not something that everyone is interested in, so I'll just keep my thoughts constrained to a blog post instead of making a video about it.

I've been participating in NaNoWriMo since 2012. It is hard to believe that it has been 10 years, but it has. It is one of the events that I look forward to every year. For those of you who don't know, NaNoWriMo is National Novel Writing Month, though I think that it has become international at t...

Glances: A Nerd's System Monitor

Today I talk about Glances, a system monitor that has a ton of features and customization. 

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Coming Up This Week

If things go as I have scheduled them, this is what will go up on the channel this week (of course, everyone knows how good I am at keeping a schedule):

Nextcloud Tutorial

My Favorite Vim Plugins

Fish Shell Pros and Cons

How to Customize KDE Plasma

Fedora vs Open Suse

Hope everyone has a great week!

Matt

Coming Up This Week

Hey, here's a bit of what I have planned for this upcoming week (in no particular order)

KDE Neon Long Term Review (recorded)

Fedora vs Open Suse

What is Btrfs? (this video scares me)

How to Rice/Customize Qtile

20 More Vim Tips

Fedora 37 Delayed, Zorin OS 16.2, and Steam Deck is More Awesome

Tyler and Matt discuss the delay of Fedora 37, Zorin OS's big release, and how the Steam Deck keeps plugging along. 

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Discord - 2022-10-29 02:17:32 +0000 UTC View Post

I Tried Dvorak for A Week(ish)

If you managed to catch this last week's pod, you know that Tyler was challenged to use Dvorak for two weeks. As the friend I am, I decided that I would take up that challenge alongside him. The one thing Tyler has at least discovered about this is that I'm a crappy cheerleader. Also, not much of a friend, since I abandoned him 6 days in. 

But you know how that goes. LOL.

Anyway, I did switch to Dvorak for six days. And I have some thoughts, both about the keyboard layout its...

Linux Horror Stories

Hey folks,

I'm doing a video about Linux horror stories for Halloween. If you have one that you'd like to share, leave it in the comments below. Patrons get first dibs for the video.

Matt

Coming Up This Week

Here is my schedule for the videos this week.

Top 5 Markdown editors (Recorded, I just need to edit)

How to Organize Your Linux File System (Recorded, just needs editing)

Top 5 Terminal File Managers

Hyperland first look

KDE Neon Long Term Review

Fedora vs Open Suse

Hope the week is treating you all well.

Matt

Ubuntu Pro, Firefox View Sucks, and PaperDE - The Linux Cast

Tyler and Matt discuss Ubuntu Pro, FIrefox view and several other news items that caught our attention. 

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Discord - 2022-10-23 02:49:22 +0000 UTC View Post

Early Access

Hey folks,

Just stopping in for a word about early access. If you've supported me for awhile, you know that I'm horrible at releasing videos early. I go in spurts where I'm really good at it and then I go for a long while where I don't do it.

But it's something I want to get back into, and I've got a start on it. I'm three videos ahead now, so I'll be getting back to Early access this week. 

As always, thank you so much for your continued support, it means the world to ...

Is The Linux Community Necessary?

Tyler and Matt discuss the Linux Community.

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Waiting For Everything To Go Wrong

Four months with Fedora. I think part of my reason for writing this post and making as many videos about Fedora as I have in the last four months is that part of me wants to prove the nay-sayers wrong. See, I'm still here. I didn't distro hop.

But, that's only a small part. The rest of it is that Fedora has just been so good. I have had a lot of luck when it comes to Linux. I don't think any of that luck is given to me because of some awesome knowledge of Linux. I'm a complete Linux noo...

Content Poll 10/5/22

What would you like to see on the channel coming up?

Returning to My Roots

I've been thinking a lot about the video content on the channel lately. I've had quite a few duds over the last few weeks and I've been trying to figure out why. I don't really care about a dud every once in a while, that's going to happen, but it has been something like 4 out of the last 5 have been fairly low ranked.

I don't do this to get rich or to become the next Mr. Beast or anything, but as I've talked about before in blog posts, it doesn't feel all that great when your videos th...

Coming Up This Week

Here are a few things I'm working on that might get done this week:

OnlyOffice vs LibreOffice

A cool video on a neofetch replacement I found

Taskwarrior video (Finally, hopefully)

A distro video of some kind, probably a WTF vid

Hope everyone has a great week.

Why Do People Love AppImages So Much?

Tyler and Matt discuss AppImages and the almost cult-like following they have.

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Fedora Breaks Video on Fedora?

Today I talk about the news that Fedora is removing some APIs from its distro that might impact how users play video related content. 

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2022-09-29 07:40:09 +0000 UTC View Post

Keychron Q1 Review

Anyone who has followed me for any amount of time knows that I'm a keyboard nerd. I collect mechanical keyboards, and while I don't go crazy like some people in this space, I have more keyboards than I should. 

I got a new one. LOL.

I decided that with the increased use of my standing desk that I was sick of the blue switches on my Vortex Race3. That board isn't hot-swap, so I was kind of stuck. Plus it is a micro USB, and I hate that. How we ever put up with that little anno...

Coming Up This Week

Here are a few things you can expect on the channel this week.

10 Most Dangerous Linux Commands

KDE Neon First Impressions

Top 5 Music Players 2022

Managing btrfs on Fedora (because Fedora does btrfs really odd)

One Week With Qtile 

Is The Command Line Still Relevant?

Tyler and Matt discuss whether or not you should use the command line, or if you can live your life in a GUI.

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Discord - 2022-09-24 00:14:47 +0000 UTC View Post

More Setup Changes

Over the last week or so, I've been working on improving my setup. I've already written about the new Microphone and the new audio interface (both of which I'm enjoying), but I've not talked about a couple of other changes that I've decided to make.

First, the monitor on my standing desk died. As you know if you've read the previous blog posts about this, I'm working on getting my standing desk set up so I can do some voiceovers and some videos from there. When the monitor died, I decid...