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Handbrake performance on more than 6 cores

Posted on March 20, 2023

Diminishing returns after 6 cores Handbrake is a video transcoder. It’s normally used to convert and compress video from a format into a more compressed format. Handbrake comes in a command line…

36 Extra programs Computer Recycling installs on our Xubuntu Linux systems

Posted on March 8, 2023

A mix of extra software designed to make transitioning to Linux easier The Computer Recycling Project at The Working Centre has been installing Linux on computers as far back as late 2001….

Updating Discord on Xubuntu

Posted on February 16, 2023

Discord is one of those applications that is a PITA (Pain In The Acetabulum). The problem is that updating Discord is not a matter of simply running sudo apt update && sudo…

Hardware detection script for *buntu Linux refurbishers

Posted on February 15, 2023

About the script I wrote the hardware.sh BASH script to make it a bit simpler for volunteers at The Working Centre’s Computer Recycling Project to figure out what hardware was in a…

22 Programs I regularly use under Xubuntu

Posted on February 4, 2023

Introduction (method for choosing programs) When coming up with this list of programs I use regularly under under Xubuntu I felt I had to set some criteria. Any program in this list…

Add webp support to Xubuntu 22.04

Posted on February 3, 2023

Introduction (webp) The GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP) is an amazing image editor. I’ve used GIMP at The Working Centre’s Computer Recycling Project ever since I started volunteering for the project back…

A quick look at Xubuntu 22.10

Posted on February 1, 2023

At the Working Centre’s Computer Recycling Project we still install Xubuntu 20.04, codename: Focal Fossa, on almost all of the systems we refurbish. Xubuntu 20.04 was released to the public in April,…

Xubuntu – Installing software using the Software program

Posted on January 31, 2023

Introduction If you’ve ever installed a program using Google Play on a cell phone, or the iTunes store on a iPhone or iPad, the Xubuntu “software” application will seem familiar. In versions…

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