Are you a thinking about moving to Linux from Windows as a non-technical user? I have been seeing a lot of noise about people leaving Windows for Linux recently. I also noticed people online tend to recommend supposedly easier distributions like Mint or Ubuntu. Let’s get this straight, it really…
Purchasing System 76 in 2025
With the new year coming up and my old System 76 Oryx Pro from 2017 not keeping up with some GPU needs, I decided it was time to buy something new. I shopped around a bit, but in the U.S. we are in a situation that made my choices somewhat…
My top five Linux applications of 2025
Here are my top five Linux application lists of 2025 that have made my year a little bit better, a lot more productive, and fun. TUI Applications Caligula is a user-friendly tool for burning disk images to USB drives, designed to simplify the process compared to traditional methods like dd….
CachyOS and KDE
I was shopping around for a new Arch based distro as I was having some issues with Manjaro and Garuda. Yes, I could install Arch. I have done this, and it was as annoying as Slackware back in the nineties. I suppose I could use the install script, basically how…
Omarchy Post Install on System 76 Laptop
My post Omarchy install on System 76, as I don’t want to forget shit, because I am old. I thought I would share, in case it helps anyone one. I am using an older Oryx Pro, oryp4-b in my case, but I imagine this will work on most System76 machines….
Fetch RSS Feed With Fish Shell And Python
Here is a working example of how to fetch an rss feed with Fish shell and Python. This grabs 40 or so of the latest articles from hacker news with a simple command. You could add code to grab actual dates as opposed to count providing an arg to the…
Configure Google Calendar For Calcurse with systemd sync and bonus NeoMutt sync.
I recently set up NeoMutt with GMail updated by systemd sync (bonus content down below) and thought it would be cool to have my Calendar in Calcurse and sync it as well. I found the info on the subject around the net that was not so clear, or even correct,…
Manjaro Sway (swaybar) Weather Script
I installed Manjaro Sway to check it out and noticed the temperature returned by the included Manjaro Sway weather script was wrong or not updating to the current temp. It seems Manjaro has their own API generated from Open Medeo data. I decided to write my own and go straight…
Animated Weather Radar To ASCII For Linux Terminal Viewing
Animated weather radar to ASCII for Linux terminal viewing script will download a static or animated radar image and convert to ASCII art for display in a terminal. If you want to display an animated weather radar in the terminal this should do it. For a full featured terminal weather…
Biyori: Terminal Weather With Radar
Biyori: Terminal Weather. TUI ascii weather application. If you only want a fully working stand-alone version of animated ASCII radar, see this. An updated version of the code is in the below zip as well. Instructions to configure and get everything working included in zip or grab below. Download Source…
