Applications for GNU/Linux Reviewed/Explained
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TecMint ☛ PowerTop – Monitors Power Usage and Improve Laptop Battery Life
One of the most important characteristics of a good GNU/Linux machine especially with laptops is power management in terms of prolonging battery life.
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TecMint ☛ TLP – Quickly Increase and Optimize GNU/Linux Laptop Battery Life
TLP is a free open-source, feature-rich, and command-line tool for advanced power management, which helps to optimize battery life in laptops powered by Linux.
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Linux Links ☛ Video Downloader – frontend for yt-dlp
Video Downloader is a tool which lets you download videos from YouTube and other websites.
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Floorp Browser: A Blazing Fast Firefox Browser in Vivaldi Style
Floorp is a free and open-source fork of Firefox that offers the same experience as Vivaldi in relation to Chrome, providing incredible performance, promising privacy, and many other customizable features.
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Medevel ☛ TubeCards - Cross-platform Spaced Repetition App written in Flutter
TubeCards is an innovative and user-friendly cross-platform spaced-repetition application that offers a seamless integration with Youtube. With its powerful features and intuitive design, TubeCards provides an effective and efficient way to enhance your learning experience.
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Chiark ☛ Colin Watson: Task management
Now that I’m freelancing, I need to actually track my time, which is something I’ve had the luxury of not having to do before. That meant something of a rethink of the way I’ve been keeping track of my to-do list. Up to now that was a combination of things like the bug lists for the projects I’m working on at the moment, whatever task tracking system Canonical was using at the moment (Jira when I left), and a giant flat text file in which I recorded logbook-style notes of what I’d done each day plus a few extra notes at the bottom to remind myself of particularly urgent tasks. I could have started manually adding times to each logbook entry, but ugh, let’s not.