Spotify & Local Files problems on Linux
Roughly a month ago, I reviewed Spotify here on OCS-Mag, testing the recently revived Ubuntu version. My experience was mixed. While the media player…
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Snap! — Beyond teaching coding to would-be programmers
Following on from our prior article and one more step in my lifelong (?) quest to rectify all the sillines that goes into…
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Dump Scratch — Use Blockly or Snap! instead
The people who make Scratch have migrated it to Flash. This is the most bonkers, hare-brained, backward idea they could have had. Migrating…
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Build Interactive Stories with Ren’Py
Storytelling is the cultural cornerstone of human civilization. If I were even more pedantic than I already am, I would tell you about…
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Tailor-made Distros with SUSE Studio
One of the things about Linux is it’s super-customisable. If you would like to go deeper than picking your desktop and the colour…
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Taming Plasma
How does one go about taming Plasma? Well, that seems to be a recurring question I get asked in the emails. People are…
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Linux Mint security – 28 days later
Ignore the actual time count. Answer me this: When would you feel more secure, knowing that your favorite distribution has been attacked and…
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Mining for Education
How would you feel if all the food in your child’s school canteen were provided by one manufacturer of packaged snacks and soft…
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LibreOffice Logic
When you switch to LibreOffice, you can usually assume that all the features available in other office suites are available. They might have…
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Inkscape’s Hidden Little Feature: Mesh Gradients
Inkscape has a secret, something that is literally hidden away. There is no icon for it in the toolbar and no option in…
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Build your own YouTube-like platform in 45 minutes or less
Reddit is full of YouTube drama these days: users are accusing each other of plagiarism, and things have even moved beyond legal sabre-rattling…
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Video: Installing Coreboot — HOWTO & WHYTO
That the UEFI firmware should die in a fire and that its instigators for its adoption should hang their collective heads in shame…
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