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Simple modern office interior with a mesh chair and desk against textured walls.

31/05/2026 Paul

No Such Thing as a Free Lunch

Joe Bloggs sat himself in front of his brand new laptop, pressed the On button and waited.

A street kitchen maybe in China, where a man and a womadn are making delicious looking bread and pizza-like pies.

Free Culture Linux Inside Opinion Writing

10/04/2024 Paul

So this person, let’s call them Jo, was hungry and had no money. Walking the streets, they come across a square where a group of people are working in a communal open kitchen, serving delicious hot meals free of charge.

It's night time in Hong Kong. The run-down street looks cool in a urban-decayish kind of way. A blue double-decker tram sticks out in the foreground with a its splash of bright colour. On the front of it, it says "Explore New Possibilities" in white capital letters. Ain't that true.

Open Data Software

16/03/2024 Paul

This weekend I am contributing to Transitous. You should too.

Transitous is a new community-driven routing service. Add your own city and help make it great.

Commonality (left) and Commonality Sol (right) Elisa (left) and Konsole (right) running

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07/12/2023 Julius Enriquez

Off-Theme Presents: Commonality

For the fourth installment of Off-Theme we have a global theme based on the granddaddy of all the classic Unix desktops, a desktop that ruled the roost of the workstations from a bygone era. It is time to pay tribute to the DE that once dominated the Unix world.

A view of the Plasma desktop with the lustrous Shades of Purple them applied.

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28/11/2023 Julius Enriquez

Off-Theme Presents: Shades of Purple

In the third installment of Off-Theme, we cover Shades of Purple, a global theme with a rather striking set of shades that sets it apart from many other flat themes.

Animated WebP image showing off the different variants of the Graphite global theme series Graphite Light, Graphite Dark, Graphite Nord Light, and Graphite Nord Dark are shown side-by-side and in order

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14/11/2023 Julius Enriquez

Off-Theme Presents: Graphite

Graphite is a global theme that boldly goes for a starkly monochromatic aesthetic and sharp window borders.

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07/11/2023 Julius Enriquez

Off-Theme Presents: Nostrum

Let’s take a look at a global theme that plays both with the old and new to create a rather striking aesthetic.

Screenshot of a highly customised Plasma desktop in violet and orange. It looks better than it sounds, I swear.

pling.it Tutorials

26/10/2023 Julius Enriquez

Going Off-Theme: The Prologue

KDE has a long and storied history of customisation, allowing people to express themselves freely through the desktop and truly

Abstract photo of a network of cables and hooks.

Free Culture Opinion Social Media Software

05/11/2022 Paul

Why Mastodon is Better

With the Muskquake leading to a tsunami of users flooding Mastodon, and even mainstream praising the platform as “interesting”, should you too migrate away from Twitter? (TL;DR: Yes. You can carry on with your day now).

Opinion rant Software

02/01/2022 Paul

Who’s Important

I am not about to start a flamewar, but how pointless is it we fret about what a couple of YouTubers and their sidekicks have to say about Linux desktops?