Category: Communication
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Daily Driving Thunderbird
The author transitioned from KDE’s Kontact to Thunderbird for personal information management due to increasing issues with Kontact. Thunderbird proved to enhance productivity significantly, offering robust email and calendar integrations, especially with Google Calendar and Microsoft Office 365. Despite some rough edges, the author appreciates Thunderbird’s reliability and flexibility and looks forward to exploring its…
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Ferdium | Centralized Web-Based Services Application
Like it or not, this web technology thing is not a fad and is going to be sticking around for the time being. I think this is great and terrible all at the same time. The great thing is, this means that I am free to use my preferred operating system for which I do…
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Microsoft Teams Rooms The Easy Way with Logitech Tap Controller and Shure STEM Ceiling Microphone
This particular article is targeting a Microsoft Administrator or IT technician who is tasked with building a Teams Conference room. I am not naturally a Microsoft Administrator and after successfully accomplishing building a simple to use, appliance like, Microsoft Team conference room for an enterprise environment. I was compelled to publish this process because it…
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Nheko | Matrix Client written in Qt on openSUSE
Matrix is a secure, decentralised, real-time, communication protocol that allows you to send messages and pictures free from the encumberments of a centralized authority. You can look at Matrix as an alternative to using Telegram, WhatsApp, Discord, etc. Confusingly, Matrix is a protocol not a client. There are many clients you can choose, the most…
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Send and Receive Text Messages SMS with Element
What makes Matrix uniquely different from other messaging platforms is the ability to have bridges to other chat services. Matrix has all the signs of being the great chat unification platform that adequately reduces complexity in communication. Element feels complete, well polished and is enjoyable to use so using Element as my front-end, I should…
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Element | Matrix Chat Client on openSUSE
All the kids have been talking about the wonders of Matrix as the future of decentralized, secure communication. I have known about it, seen bridges being used in the openSUSE discord and Telegram rooms. Most of my experience has not been great, generally there were significant delays. I have used a few clients, Riot.im on…
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Commodore 64 on the Internet with IRC | YouTube Edition
This is nothing more than a placeholder post and an announcement of a somewhat embarrassing example of my poor video editing abilities. I previously created a blathering about getting the Commodore 64 on the Internet with IRC and step by step instructions but under the pressure of one person (see how easily I am swayed).…
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Wavebox | Chat Unification Snap Application on openSUSE Tumbleweed
From time to time, I like to play around with the universal packaging available in Linux. It has mostly been AppImages and Flatpak but I wanted to Snap something into my system. After working out an AppArmor issue. Snaps were working fantastically well once again. The application I wanted to try was another Chat Message…
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Rambox | Chat Message Unification Application for openSUSE
Not long ago, I started using Franz, a chat messaging unification application and I had a good experience with it. I had talked to a few e-friends about it and some advised me that I should also try Rambox. Since I had just installed Franz, I wasn’t about to try something else, not yet anyway.…
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Franz | Chat Messaging Unification Application on openSUSE
During one of my web-searching, rabbit-hole voyages, I stumbled upon this Franz application. I was immediately thrilled with the idea as I have a number of chat services I use on regular basis. It has almost grown out of control and my current solution for these services was less than stellar. I have a mixture of…