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My thoughts on the Motile 14 laptop from Walmart
I originally learned about the Motile 14 laptop from the following video. I finally decided to pull the trigger on buying one the other week and I’ve spent a week using it as my daily driver. My original plan was to put the laptop down in the basement to watch videos and movies on it…
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Linux Mint 20 on the Lenovo 14W
Linux Mint recently released Linux Mint 20. I was eager to try the Cinnamon version of LM20 because I read that it came with fractional scaling built-in. You can catch up on why fractional scaling is so important to the Lenovo 14W here. Last weekend, I installed the beta version of LM20 on the under[powered…
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My laptop obsession: Part 1 The Beginning
When I first came to Kansas, one of the few possessions I had was my 2012 Windows 7 Asus K55A laptop. This laptop was beat up, to say the least. The screen had these dark blotches on it from having heavy objects placed on it. All the keys had been worn and many of them…
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Lenovo 14w laptop review and Linux recommendations
If you don’t mind I’d like to indulge my tech side for a moment. Over the Black Friday/Cyber Monday weekend, I purchased a Lenovo 14w laptop (sponsored link) for $120. This is a low-end laptop intended to be used by school students. Basically, it’s a Windows version of a Chromebook. The problem with this laptop…
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New Home With Broken Windows
So after years of dealing with various webhosts and obsessing over every last minute detail of my website’s WordPress installation, I finally decided to move my site to WordPress.com. However, whenever I move the site something inevitably goes wrong. This time most of the images on my posts are broken. This was my fault for…
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Requiem for Google+
By now you’ve probably heard that Google is shutting down its failed attempt at a social network in Google+. Yes, your joke about how you thought it was already shut down is quite clever and original. You’re the Will Rogers of our time. Anyway, Google decided to shutter the service in the next year or…
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Vivaldi browser 2.0 vs. Google Chrome
I’ve been using Google Chrome as the main browser on my computers ever since the late lamented RockMelt browser was discontinued. Since RockMelt was based on Chromium, the underlying project that Chrome is based on, it was a natural choice to switch to Chrome. The main selling point of Chrome to me was the fact…
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The Asus 4G Surf Linux Challenge: ToriOS
Just when I think that there can’t be another Linux distro to fit on the tiny hard drive of the Asus EeePC 701 4G Surf, the Linux community surprises me. As I’ve mentioned before, I love it when DistroWatch adds a new distro to their database. Not too long ago they added a distro called…
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Trench’s adventures in Linux: Zorin OS 12 Core
As far as Linux distros go, I’ve been a fan of Zorin OS for years. I still have fond memories of using Zorin OS 5 Core for longer than I use most Linux distros. The problem was, that in my opinion, the quality of Zorin OS Core fell off in the following years. With Zorin…
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