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Today we will learn how to install and use shortwave app on your computer. P.S it requires an active internet connection to stream. What's shortwave? Shortwave is an open source gnome based application, specifically meant to stream radio. This app is only available for Linux users. You can use vlc, rhythm box but you won't have fun using them because they are all in one apps like for playing music and movies and this one just does one thing that is to stream radio. But bruh why stream radio instead of Spotify? Why? Because I like it that way, I don't like the machines, algorithms determine my musical tastes or manipulate me into liking anything. Also it's free and doesn't require an account to just listen to music unlike Spotify. Call me old school but you just can't beat radio as you can get information and listen to music for free, entertainment. You can also stream music through your Chromecast or any casting device as it has casting feature built-in the app...

 Today we will learn how to install a free vpn in our linux system. The vpn I'm talking here is proton free vpn.  Although it's free you need to sign up with proton vpn to access the VPN. This tutorial is applicable only for debian based distributions, so proceed with caution if you have arch based os, windows or macos. 1) Go to  https://protonvpn.com/free-vpn and then click on get proton free vpn and then click on continue with free. 2) Sign in or sign up if you don't have an account, after that sign in. 3) On the left menu click on downloads and download for GNU/Linux. If you want it for your operating system do that here. This is direct download link for linux  https://protonvpn.com/download-linux .   After going to that link click on install proton vpn. here if you are confused  https://protonvpn.com/support/linux-vpn-setup/ 4) click on debian  https://protonvpn.com/support/official-linux-vpn-debian/ and follow the onscreen commands from steps 1 ...

MX linux installation was fun and a short one because I brought a new PC. Enjoy the article written in no particular order. so i was installed chromium and to my surprise it already had DuckDuckGo as the search engine by default. What I don't know is that chromium automatically took firefox's default search engine or it was by default but I was impressed!  one thing I need to figure out is how to drag and resize windows to left right and maximum with mouse. I'm missing that feature on MX Linux.   Trying SMPlayer, heard a lot about it that it has better Youtube playback support than the browser version. At first, it requires a plugin from github I downloaded it, turns out it didn't work for my system. it downloads the plugin and just gives successful message. Probably Youtube blocked it's API for SMPlayer. Will try it later.   So doing some research I found out that if you use Alt button with firefox we can jump switch between previous and next window of that par...