Year: 2023

Recently I installed a Snap package of the Steam application on my Ubuntu 16.04. I read about it in a blog post and just had to try it out. I’ve been migrating my most used desktop applications into their Snap versions over the past year, so why not Steam too. It’s “cleaner” that way, or…

Yes, Ubuntu 16.04 codenamed Xenial Xerus is officially supported by Ubuntu up to 10 years. As most of us already know, Ubuntu versions that start with an even number and end with 04 are LTS or Long-Term Support. These LTS versions are supported up to 5 years. By default. That means Canonical will have regular…

For the longest time I recall I’ve always been prone to do this when doing String comparisons* in Java… …And furthermore, I often find myself using the .equalsIgnoreCase() method. (Yes, considering that the requirements does not care about the letter case.) There is really nothing wrong with this way of checking if the string values…

Early last year, I was thinking about getting a gaming PC. Already started asking around and looking at the prices of the components that I thought I would need to build my gaming machine. While the desire was there, something was always holding me back. (More expensive than I thought.) Then I found out late…

Here’s to no more Covid19 scares and other stupidities, … to never be forced to wear those annoying face masks again (Especially those absurd face shields that was unique to the Philippines), … to finally be able to travel outside of the country, time permitting (If only plane rides don’t cost that much anymore because…