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Internet Radio

Receiver – a modern internet radio player progressing rapidly

March 9, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia, Reviews

Receiver is an awesome open source internet radio player. If you like internet radio, you really should try it today!

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Linux Candy

Linux Candy: catspeak – like cowsay but catty

March 6, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Utilities

catspeak is a command-line tool that generates an ASCII picture with a message. It’s a cowsay like program of a speaking cat.

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Chuwi CoreBook Air Plus running Linux: Power Consumption

March 5, 2026 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Laptops, Reviews

For this article in the series, I’m looking at the power consumption of the Chuwi CoreBook Air Plus running Linux.

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Music Player

CLIAMP – retro terminal music player inspired by Winamp

March 4, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia, Reviews, TUI

CLIAMP is billed as a retro-inspired terminal music player influenced by the classic Winamp 2.x era. It’s really cool!

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Internet Radio

Receiver – Linux tool to enjoy 30,000+ verified radio stations

March 3, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Internet, Reviews

Receiver is an excellent program. With a bit more development, it’ll replace Shortwave, Tuner and Transistor as my go to GUI internet radio player.

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Chuwi CoreBook Air Plus

Chuwi CoreBook Air Plus running Linux: BIOS

March 2, 2026 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Laptops, Reviews

This is a new series looking at the Chuwi CoreBook Air Plus running Linux. I take a look at the laptop’s BIOS.

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Linux Candy

Linux Candy: tanuki – hourly animal crossing vibes

February 27, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia, Reviews

tanuki is a small GUI program that plays the hourly music from Animal Crossing on your computer.

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Chuwi CoreBook Air Plus

Chuwi CoreBook Air Plus running Linux: Benchmarks

February 26, 2026 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Laptops, Reviews

I run a series of benchmarks on the newly released Chuwi CoreBook Air Plus. It’s a very capable laptop.

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Trix Player – Linux music player built with Rust

February 25, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia, Reviews, TUI

Trix Player (or Trix) is a lightweight, high-performance music player written in Rust. Aimed at Linux users who favor the terminal

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Chuwi CoreBook Air Plus

Chuwi CoreBook Air Plus running Linux: Specifications

February 24, 2026 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Laptops, Reviews

This is a new series looking at the Chuwi CoreBook Air Plus running Linux. I grill the laptop using the inxi tool.

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tmuzika – Terminal music player for Linux

February 24, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia, Reviews, TUI

tmuzika aims to offer quick and simple music playback directly in the terminal, with full keyboard control.

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Chuwi CoreBook Air Plus

Chuwi CoreBook Air Plus running Linux: Hardware Review

February 23, 2026 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Laptops, Reviews

The Chuwi CoreBook Air Plus positions itself as a lightweight, mid-range productivity machine that blends premium materials with good performance.

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Linux Candy: Lolcat++ is a rewrite of the popular LOLCAT

February 20, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Utilities

Lolcat++ is a rewrite of lolcat. The original is written in Ruby, whereas this rewrite is coded in the C++ language.

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Image Viewers

Lightning Image Viewer – fast and lightweight desktop image viewer

February 18, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI, Reviews

Lightning Image Viewer (LIV) is billed as a desktop image (previewer) with some notable UX features.

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SSD

cull – reclaim precious disk space

February 12, 2026 Steve Emms Reviews, TUI, Utilities

cull is a program written in Go that helps you clean up your system. It’s a lovely small utility. Give it a whirl!

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NoctaVox – TUI music player for local music

February 10, 2026 Steve Emms Multimedia, Reviews, TUI

NoctaVox recently caught my attention. It’s billed as a lightweight, plug and play TUI music player for local music.

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Linux Candy

Linux Candy: sigye – terminal clock

February 6, 2026 Steve Emms Productivity, Reviews, TUI

sigye is a terminal clock with ASCII art fonts. The name “sigye” (ģ‹œź³„) means “clock” in Korean. It also offers Pomodoro functionality

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Ampere – lightweight music player

February 5, 2026 Luke Baker GUI, Multimedia, Reviews

Ampere is a GUI-based playlist-based audio player written in Python and Qt. It’s free and open source software.

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ASROCK NUC BOX-255H Running Linux

ASRock Industrial NUC BOX-255H Running Linux: BIOS

February 4, 2026 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

In this article in the series I’ll show you many of the BIOS options that are available with the ASRock Industrial NUC BOX-255H.

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YouTube

Pipeline – watch YouTube and PeerTube videos

February 3, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia, Reviews

Access YouTube content without using a web browser. Pipeline goes one step further by letting you also view PeerTube content.

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