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This week’s blog looks at configuring the HP EliteDesk 800 G2 to use hardware acceleration when watching videos in Firefox. Hardware video acceleration lets the GPU decode/encode video, offloading the CPU and saving power. Linux distributions, by default, don’t enable hardware acceleration because it can cause issues on specific hardware.

This series recommends what to choose when buying a refurbished mini PC to run Linux as a desktop computer. For this article we focus on the CPU.

Tuner is billed as a minimalist radio station player. It’s free and open source software written in Vala. Designed for elementary OS it runs on other popular Linux distros. Here's our review of this software.

For this week’s blog, we’ve tested video and audio on the refurbished HP EliteDesk 800 G2 Mini Desktop PC using the Manjaro rolling distro.

This is a series of articles about buying a refurbished mini PC to run Linux as a desktop machine. Along the way, we’ll explain what you really need.

This is a moment in history for us to remember. An open source operating system built by thousands flies a helicopter on another planet.

mmtc is billed as a minimal MPD terminal client that aims to be simple yet highly configurable. The software is written in Rust and published under an open source license.

For this week’s blog, we’ve run a variety of benchmark tests on the HP EliteDesk 800 G2 together with five other systems to put the results into context.

This week’s blog looks at video recording on the Lenovo M93 using OBS Studio.

There's a school of thought that recommends a program does one thing but does it really well. There's so many feature-laden programs where the vast majority of the functionality is used by a microscopic number of users. Reco tries to be different. Reco is an audio recording app designed for elementary OS. Reco is free and open source software.

This is a weekly blog looking at a refurbished HP EliteDesk 800 G2 Mini Desktop PC running Linux. Refurbished PCs offer a great solution to your computing requirements.

This is a weekly blog looking at the Lenovo M93 Ultra Small Desktop PC running Linux. We put some free games through their paces on the M93.

scrcpy is a free and open source screen mirroring application that lets you control an Android device from your desktop computer.

Google Chrome is the most popular web browser. It provides an easy to use and clean interface, solid connectivity across devices and a huge library of extensions. However, it’s resource-hungry, has a chequered track record when it comes to privacy, and it’s released under a proprietary license.

In this week’s blog, we look at some of the ways you can run programs from different operating systems on the Lenovo M93. We examine hardware virtualization, dual booting, as well as using a compatibility layer.

Shazam is an app that identifies multimedia. The program stores a catalogue of audio fingerprints in a database. Shazam works by analyzing the captured sound and seeking a match based on an acoustic fingerprint in a database of millions of songs. SongRec is an open source Shazam client for Linux. The software is written in Rust.

Google Calendar is a time-management and scheduling calendar service. It offers tons of features and makes it easy to keep track of life’s important events all in one place. What are the best open source alternatives?

For this week’s blog, we put the Lenovo M93 through its paces from a multimedia perspective.

Endlessh is an SSH tarpit that very slowly sends an endless, random SSH banner. It keeps SSH clients locked up for hours or even days at a time.

Google Translate is a multilingual neural machine translation service that translates text and websites from one language into another. What if you are looking to move away from Google and embark on a new world of online freedom, where you are not constantly tracked, monetised and attached to Google’s ecosystem. In this series, we’ll explore how you can migrate from Google without missing out on anything. We’ll recommend open source solutions.