Tag archives for apps
Nothing compares to Beyond Compare for… backups
There aren't many kinds of software I'm willing to pay for. VPNs are one such category. Dictionary apps (or online subscriptions to dictionaries) might be a second one. And Beyond…
I never thought I’ll prefer ONLYOFFICE
I never liked ONLYOFFICE. I hated that it has a unique binary that you have to launch, instead of separate apps for documents, spreadsheets, and presentations. I found its ALL-CAPS…
Upscaler: upscaling the easy way
As I was browsing Flathub, it recommended Upscaler to me. Its website is proud to announce to the world that the developer of this app is a mentally insane individual:…
Linux system cleaners, you said? Yeah, not a big fan of them
I stopped using CCleaner for Windows years ago, even before Avast purchased Piriform. Today, everything owned by Avast is pure garbage, but there are many ways to perform some form…
Google Play Store is committing highway robbery and should be shut down!
I just lost €12.99 because of Google Play Store, despite having in theory many more rights than the Americans, as the responsible entity in my case is Google Commerce Limited,…
Comics Kingdom Easy Browser
This is the sibling of the web version of the Comic Strip Browser for GoComics, which needed a counterpart for ComicsKingdom.com, which hosts the comics syndicated through King Features Syndicate,…
Comic Strip Browser in your browser!
Even myself, a huge fan of local, standalone apps, I have to admit that nowadays almost everything is a web app. And the Comic Strip Browser app, a PyQt6 software…
Comic Strip Browser v. 1.1.3: new strips!
I released two new versions of my Comic Strip Browser one after another the same day. That's because 1.1.2 added 6 new strips, but 1.1.3 had to remove an older…
📖 In the unlikely event you installed Lubuntu 25.10…
No, this blog wasn’t hijacked. This comes from the author of 😾 30 Years Defending Linux — Until I Called It Quits. But this is a public service to those…
Comic Strip Browser v. 1.1.1: new features and new bugs!
Exactly three months ago, I wrote The magic of Amazon’s Kiro: my 1st vibe-coded PyQt6 app! It was meant to introduce a PyQt6 Linux app for browsing a selection of…
E-book readers on Windows and Android: my 2 cents
I have always favored, literally for decades, the ePub file format for e-books and ranted against Amazon's various Kindle-specific e-book formats. And, oh boy, they have changed in time: from…
I still prefer VMware to VirtualBox
Everyone swears by VirtualBox for Type 2 virtualization, most likely because it has always been free. But it's a complete piece of crap, and never was anything but a pain…
It ain’t no freedom, and it’ll be even less of it
Ten months ago, I wrote I wish I weren’t born in Europe. All of a sudden, the planets realigned so that I felt the need to write a much shorter…
The magic of Amazon’s Kiro: my 1st vibe-coded PyQt6 app!
The recently released Amazon Kiro, even if it's just a preview, is the latest shit in AI-assisted software development. I happened to download it while it was still possible (now…
Învățăturile lui Nea Guță Basarab către părinții de adolescenți
Știu că visez frumos când spun că „soluția este educația, nu cenzura”, dar cred cu tărie că cenzura nu este o soluție pentru nici o problemă. Simțul critic sau spiritul…
The Amazon Kindle and stupid people: a storm in a teacup
There is one small change that will happen in relation to Kindle e-books, as noticed recently by people purchasing a book who wish to download it as a file and…
Was I wrong in my take on packages vs. Flatpaks & snaps? Updated!
I don’t even remember how many times I insisted—because a Luddite has to be conservative, and Linux used to observe the KISS principle anyway—that the right thing to install software…
From column to nushell: not what I expected
The former, column, is a utility from the bsdextrautils package, whereas the latter is a shell written in Rust. There is something they have in common: they both provide nicely…
ADHD insights for ADHD people
I happened to learn about the book ADHD 2.0: New Science and Strategies for Thriving with Distraction from Childhood through Adulthood, by Edward M. Hallowell M.D. and John J. Ratey…
What you need to know when using my custom AlmaLinux 9.4 KDE ISO
In the post about my Custom AlmaLinux 9.4 KDE Live ISO, I mentioned the differences compared to the official KDE Live ISO. Still, I feel that I need to underscore…