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Awesomely slim Linux desktop setup
Welcome, weary traveler. I sense you have become frustrated with your distribution of choice, for incessantly reinventing the wheel, trying to adopt all the worst practices of Apple and Microsoft, providing poor documentation and/or really supporting only the most basic of setups. Fear not, for there are light-weigth, flexible, well-documented no-nonsense alternatives available.
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Ubuntu phone fundraiser
Canonical has started a fundraiser to develop an Ubuntu/Android phone. There's a 600 USD early bird tier for one day to get the phone itself, and afterwards it's a massive 830 USD.
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From one scientist to another (neither of them me):
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Green Man Gaming web site experience
I wanted to buy the XCOM Enemy Unknown Pack (Update: sorry, the link is dead), but this was a major pain:
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The Tomorrow Girl and Other Stories
Aaron Diaz's art is hypnotizing, and the stories awesome (also in the overwhelming sense). It is the best kind of hodge-podge with stone-age anti-intellectualism satire, trans-humanism drama, weird daydreams, unresolved mysteries and more.
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A superior Linux experience with Awesome
Awesome actually lives up to its name. Short and sweet, here's why you should try it:
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Quit social job sites
I just quit two social job sites, and I don't expect I'll start using another one. After several years' membership I find that my occasional hillbilly-style urge to peek through the work-life curtains of acquaintances is not outweighed by the cons:
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Ubuntu getting unreadier and unreadier for the desktop
I'm pretty sure that isn't a word, but anyway. Since upgrading to 13.04 yesterday, I've found the following bugs:
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last.fm to Spotify migration
When last.fm announced on 2012-12-13 that they were pulling out of Switzerland in mid-January, I requested a refund (Update: sorry, the link is dead) (unsuccessfully so far) and started looking around for an alternative immediately. Spotify seems to fit the bill nicely, and barring any glaring privacy or stability issues it's probably worth a threefold price increase.
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15 ways to attract blog readers