Grocy is a web-based, self-hosted groceries and household management system.
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Category: Reviews
Forecast – view weather predictions
A reader suggested I take a look at Forecast, a simple weather application designed for the COSMIC desktop. This is free and open source software.
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Radiotrope – AI agent-enabled internet radio player
Radiotrope is a GUI and TUI internet radio player for Linux. It’s an AI agent-enabled player built with Rust, Slint, and MCP.
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BOSGAME M4 Plus Mini PC running Linux: BIOS
In this article in the series I’ll show you many of the BIOS options that are available with the BOSGAME M4 Plus Mini PC.
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ImageGlass – versatile image viewer
ImageGlass is a lightweight, versatile image viewer with a clean, modern interface that’s now available for Linux.
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Feedr – polished Linux terminal-based RSS/Atom feed reader
Feedr rivals Newsboat in many respects as the finest terminal news aggregator for Linux.
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Warp – modern terminal with an IDE-like interface and AI assistance
Warp is a Rust-based terminal for developers and teams. It’s proprietary software.
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Chuwi CoreBook Air Plus running Linux: Configuring Ubuntu 25.10
In this article in this series I look at configuring one of the most widely used Linux distributions on the Chuwi laptop.
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Ratarmount – access large archives as a filesystem
Ratarmount collects all file positions inside a TAR so that it can easily jump to and read from any file without extracting it
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Namida – feature-rich music / video player for Linux, Android, and Windows
Namida is a modern music and video player. The application aims to combine an attractive interface with a powerful local music library
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Astra is billed as an audiophile music player
Astra is a music player designed for playing local music files, whether your collection consists of FLAC, MP3, or other common audio formats.
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Chuwi CoreBook Air Plus running Linux: Battery Life
For this article in the series, I’m looking at the battery life of the laptop in more detail. The 16″ model of the laptop has a 60Wh battery.
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Receiver – a modern internet radio player progressing rapidly
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: catspeak – like cowsay but catty
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
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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CLIAMP – retro terminal music player inspired by Winamp
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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Receiver – Linux tool to enjoy 30,000+ verified radio stations
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 running Linux: BIOS
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: tanuki – hourly animal crossing vibes
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 running Linux: Benchmarks
I run a series of benchmarks on the newly released Chuwi CoreBook Air Plus. It’s a very capable laptop.
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