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I've hopped browsers a lot in the last few months and I've finally settled on exclusively using Firefox (or derivatives) on all my devices. In a series of posts, I'm going to share how I have my instances of  Firefox configured and how it is a better browser for getting real work done. Contact me Would love to hear from you on this topic! https://obscurednarration.com/follow/ Email: obscurednarration@gmail.com Twitter: @domcoriveau - https://twitter.com/domcorriveau ********** Check out my sister podcast Go With The Heat. We just relaunched the show after going through all of the 80's goodness that was Miami Vice. The updated show is now going deeper into the greatest era of action movies, 1975 - 1995. http://gowiththeheat.com Listen to Go With The Heat, anytime without a subscription! Spotify: https://gwth.us/gwthspotify TuneIn: https://gwth.us/gwthtunein YouTube: https://gwth.us/gwthyt

I’ve used OBS for a long time for game and screen recording. I was well aware that was barely scratching the surface of what it can do. Yet, that’s basically all I needed it for, mostly for screen recording training videos. I never had a reason to go deeper into OBS, but now I’ve spent my entire vacation learning deep diving after running some fun experiments based on ideas I had while watching a few of my favorite streamers. In particular, virtual cams and NDI streaming. This is the narration of my original blog post found here: https://obscurednarration.com/streaming-at-home-with-ndi-and-virtual-cams-for-family-fun/ Contact me Would love to hear from you on this topic! https://obscurednarration.com/follow/ Email: obscurednarration@gmail.com Twitter: @domcoriveau - https://twitter.com/domcorriveau ********** Check out my sister podcast Go With The Heat. We just relaunched the show after going through all of the 80's goodness that was Miami Vice. The updated show is now going deeper into the greatest era o

Although there are not many nice things to say about 2020, there was one aspect of my life that has changed for the better. This is the year I finally accepted that I am hearing disabled. This is the narration of my original blog post found here: https://obscurednarration.com/embracing-my-disability-addressing-accessibility/ Contact me Would love to hear from you on this topic! https://obscurednarration.com/follow/ Email: obscurednarration@gmail.com Twitter: @domcoriveau - https://twitter.com/domcorriveau ********** Check out my sister podcast Go With The Heat. We just relaunched the show after going through all of the 80's goodness that was Miami Vice. The updated show is now going deeper into the greatest era of action movies, 1975 - 1995. http://gowiththeheat.com Listen to Go With The Heat, anytime without a subscription! Spotify: https://gwth.us/gwthspotify TuneIn: https://gwth.us/gwthtunein YouTube: https://gwth.us/gwthyt Music "Werq", "Basic Implosion" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under

Okay, this is gonna sound funny. But at the middle of my tech stack is my tablet. This may not be how you want to use it, however for me its the center of the universe. My tablet needs to be able to do everything. Its the only device that bridges all my machines and is the link that connects them all.  This is a truncated version on how I pull it off and why I love it. This is the narration of my original blog post found here: https://obscurednarration.com/that-mid-range-tablet-life/ Contact me Would love to hear from you on this topic! https://obscurednarration.com/follow/ Email: obscurednarration@gmail.com Twitter: @domcoriveau - https://twitter.com/domcorriveau ********** Check out my sister podcast Go With The Heat. We just relaunched the show after going through all of the 80's goodness that was Miami Vice. The updated show is now going deeper into the greatest era of action movies, 1975 - 1995. http://gowiththeheat.com Listen to Go With The Heat, anytime without a subscription! Spotify: https://

My thoughts on the best tech of 2020.  There will be lots of lists that are nothing but affiliate links. This post is about the people and projects that enable us to truly own digital items, not leasing like we do with Google Drive, Spotify, and Netflix.  Read the original blog: https://obscurednarration.com/the-best-tech-of-2020-a-new-mindset-on-ownership/ ********** Contact me Would love to hear from you on this topic! https://obscurednarration.com/follow/ Email: obscurednarration@gmail.com Twitter: @domcoriveau - https://twitter.com/domcorriveau ********** Check out my sister podcast Go With The Heat. We just relaunched the show after going through all of the 80's goodness that was Miami Vice. The updated show is now going deeper into the greatest era of action movies, 1975 - 1995. http://gowiththeheat.com Listen to Go With The Heat, anytime without a subscription! Spotify: https://gwth.us/gwthspotify TuneIn: https://gwth.us/gwthtunein YouTube: https://gwth.us/gwthyt Music "Werq", "Basic Implos

After seeing the news of a new Ubuntu-based distro using /e/ OS app store, my interest was piqued about running Android apps on my desktop. Having recently played around with screen mirroring on my Pop_OS desktop, running the apps directly seems like a much better experience. This is the narration of my original blog post found here: https://obscurednarration.com/replacing-smartphone-batteries-my-honor-7x-experience/ Contact me Would love to hear from you on this topic! https://obscurednarration.com/follow/ Email: obscurednarration@gmail.com Twitter: @domcoriveau - https://twitter.com/domcorriveau ********** Check out my sister podcast Go With The Heat. We just relaunched the show after going through all of the 80's goodness that was Miami Vice. The updated show is now going deeper into the greatest era of action movies, 1975 - 1995. http://gowiththeheat.com Listen to Go With The Heat, anytime without a subscription! Spotify: https://gwth.us/gwthspotify TuneIn: https://gwth.us/gwthtunein YouTube: https://gwt

There are plenty of reasons to make this accessible for more users, from environmental to economic. I realized after repairing my daughters Honor 7x, that I now have three devices in use after battery replacements, all of them repaired for a combined cost of $60. Repairing my daughter's phone only cost $15. Imagine the benefit so many people could have when a repair costs a fraction of a new device and the manufacturer wasn’t conspiring against you to block this process. This is even more evident now as millions of people are out of work just like me, looking to save every penny they can. Contact me Would love to hear from you on this topic! Email: obscurednarration@gmail.com Twitter: @domcoriveau - https://twitter.com/domcorriveau ********** Digital marketing professional Into digital marketing? Get a newsletter all about the best stuff in digital marketing over the last week plus deep-dives into this industry. https://gwth.us/marketingmixer Check out my sister podcast Go With The Heat. We just relaunched th

Earlier, Flipboard announced a $3/month subscription (coming soon) to curate public video into a single feed. What I really want is a way to easily consolidate YouTube, feeds, newsletters, and podcasts into a single source. Unfortunately, this Flipboard subscription is a good idea, too lost in its own ego, justifying the “algorithm” over allowing indie curators and creators to build their own audiences. The sad truth is that this could have been a reality, if RSS was treated as an important feature of the open web. Instead, modern content is all about the platform, not content. Contact me Would love to hear from you on this topic! Email: obscurednarration@gmail.com Twitter: @domcoriveau - https://twitter.com/domcorriveau ********** Digital marketing professional Into digital marketing? Get a newsletter all about the best stuff in digital marketing over the last week plus deep-dives into this industry. https://gwth.us/marketingmixer Check out my sister podcast Go With The Heat. We just relaunched the show af

One of the biggest factors I take into consideration before  purchasing an Android phone is if it is supported by 3rd. party ROM’s.  Previously I’ve run devices without Google Apps after installing  LineageOS, which had significant speed and battery performance in  addition to privacy upgrades. Last week I installed /e/ OS on my Honor 5x after stumbling on it on Twitter. There’s a few aspects  of this really unique OS that I feel merit a test for anyone who has a  supported device. The /e/ operating system isn’t just a custom ROM. They’ve developed  an integrated ecosystem of default apps to replace typical Google  services along with utilizing MicroG framework to help more apps work without access to Google Play Services. This isn’t a full review of the OS, but my initial takeaways of what  might be the most interesting attempt at a non-Google Linux mobile OS  and something I think I’m going to stick with for the long run. For show notes, tech notes and mo

On the blog this week was… Admitting my continued love of Blackberry and if physical keyboards on phones are worth it. Blog is on  ObscuredNarration.com right now. This podcast allows me to go deeper on this topic. For some time, I’ve been fixated on finding the right mobile device for  me. A device that’s curated just for my use case, not a black slab of  glass that is just a notification vehicle. In my heart I thought this  was a device with a physical keyboard. Thinking of this I fondly  remember my days as a Blackberry Curve user and how much I loved that  phone. But now, I’m not so sure if I wanted it for getting more work  done, or if my rose-colored nostalgia for the early days of smartphones. This podcast has undergone a lot of changes and big gaps in publishing, I recognize that. I tried to cover the news and that just set me up for failure. I follow news closely but I’m not a reporter. Instead of a podcast this will be more of a journal (which is what I  cha

Its time to talk about the next weekend project and this time I'm talking all about notes apps. Actually, I'm talking about my favorite notes app called Joplin. I lay out why I love Joplin and why I switched to it from Google Keep. Links Replace Your To-Do List With Interstitial Journaling To Increase Productivity - https://web.archive.org/web/20190101232404/https://betterhumans.coach.me/replace-your-to-do-list-with-interstitial-journaling-to-increase-productivity-4e43109d15ef?gi=9a535dc0b8be For some reason this was pulled down from Medium... The link is the Internet Archive version of the page. Joplin Notes - https://joplinapp.org/ Read more Get more hot takes, deeper dives and inside information on tech and how it connects to humans. obscurednarration.com Get behind the scenes Twitter - @domcorriveau Instagram - @domcorriveau Reviews and more tech news on my YouTube Music "Werq", "Basic Implosion" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://crea

After much internal debate I pulled the trigger on a mobile device for my increasing travel. This is the normal process for me: Pick out the most expensive device and slowly talk myself out of it. Research the hell out of a used device and never purchase This time there's a third step in which I actually bought a device! For people on a tight budget spending any money is covered in several layers of guilt. It was incredibly important to me to get a device that covered 90% of my usecase which is why I chose this device for mobile gaming, media, podcasts and more... The Xiomi Redmi Note 7. Links Redmi Note 7 Specs - https://www.phonearena.com/phones/Xiaomi-Redmi-Note-7_id11110 Mini Metro Game - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=nz.co.codepoint.minimetro&hl=en_US Steam Link - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.valvesoftware.steamlink&hl=en_US Read more Get more hot takes, deeper dives and inside information on tech and how it connects to humans. obscurednarration.co

Week off after traveling for my 9-5 but right back to the deep news and today is all about Walmart and their new A.I. store. This video is all about context and how having cashiers who understand human context. I'm not much of a fan of the Amazon Go cashier-less store but this new concept from Walmart sounds much better. Human to human interaction is what makes or breaks businesses. If you don't trust your people and want to replace them with machines, the problem isn't with your employees... Its management. Links Walmart unveils an AI-powered store of the future, now open to the public - https://techcrunch.com/2019/04/25/walmart-unveils-an-a-i-powered-store-of-the-future-now-open-to-the-public/ Walmart’s Vudu Sets Originals With Queen Latifah, Evangeline Lilly, Randy Jackson for Free-Streaming Lineup - https://variety.com/2019/digital/news/vudu-originals-queen-latifah-evangeline-lilly-randy-jackson-blues-clues-1203204680/ Read more Get more hot takes, deeper dives and inside information on tech and how i

Its time to check in with the last weekend project and I've got to admit... I'm a serious overpacker when it come to travel. I do have a couple recommendations and a look forward to our next weekend project. YouTube-DL  https://ytdl-org.github.io/youtube-dl/index.html Cable Organizer https://gwth.us/2UUBsO9 Read more Get more hot takes, deeper dives and inside information on tech and how it connects to humans. obscurednarration.com Blog RSS - https://feeds.feedburner.com/obscurednarration Get behind the scenes Twitter - @domcorriveau Instagram - @domcorriveau Reviews and more tech news on my YouTube Music "Werq", "Basic Implosion" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Subscribe Weekly Podcast RSS - https://feeds.feedburner.com/dctalkspodcast Daily Podcast RSS - https://anchor.fm/s/8af59bc/podcast/rss Video version - https://www.youtube.com/dominiccorriveau Miami Vice Podcast Back in 1984, Miami Vice

The browser wars are back! Firefox rescued the internet from the Internet Explorer takeover in the early aughts. Now its time for it to return and fight the new browswer... Chromium. With everyone making a Bling/V8 browser, from Brave to Edge and Opera, its time you take a look at Firefox again. Its a good thing Firefox is also the best browser on the planet right now. In today's episode I share my love for the feisty browser, its test pilot projects and a fork or two. Read more Get more hot takes, deeper dives and inside information on tech and how it connects to humans. obscurednarration.com Blog RSS - https://feeds.feedburner.com/obscurednarration Get behind the scenes Twitter - @domcorriveau Instagram - @domcorriveau Reviews and more tech news on my YouTube Music "Werq", "Basic Implosion" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Subscribe Weekly Podcast RSS - https://feeds.feedburner.com/dctalkspodcast Da

With the release of Ubuntu 19.04 Disco Dingo, the whole internet is celebrating... Okay, that's probably an overstatement. But this is a good day for computing in general. Considering the competition I give an ode to Ubuntu 19.04 and the freedom it brings. Read more Get more hot takes, deeper dives and inside information on tech and how it connects to humans. obscurednarration.com Blog RSS - https://feeds.feedburner.com/obscurednarration Get behind the scenes Twitter - @domcorriveau Instagram - @domcorriveau Reviews and more tech news on my YouTube Music "Werq", "Basic Implosion" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Subscribe Weekly Podcast RSS - https://feeds.feedburner.com/dctalkspodcast Daily Podcast RSS - https://anchor.fm/s/8af59bc/podcast/rss Video version - https://www.youtube.com/dominiccorriveau Miami Vice Podcast Back in 1984, Miami Vice changed the TV landscape not only for the decade, but for

I have been sick all week and it was best that I didn't subject you to my nasally voice. But there was so much tech stuff happening this week, particularly around my favorite tech thing... Linux! Between a Linux Tech Tip video for gaming, Lutris with a new release and even baking the Nvidia proprietary driver right into the Ubuntu 19.04 installer this was a big week for Linux and gaming. I take this opportunity to go deeper on what I think the Linux desktop is great at and how it can weave its way further into the PC's and desks for gamers and more.  Linus Tech Tip - Microsoft Should be Very Afraid https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Co6FePZoNgE&t=2s Ubuntu 19.04 Delivers A Welcome Surprise For Nvidia GPU Owners https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2019/04/15/ubuntu-19-04-delivers-a-welcome-surprise-for-nvidia-gpu-owners/#342c85d23c93 Contact obscurednarration@gmail.com  Get behind the scenes Twitter - https://twitter.com/domcorriveau Instagram - https://instagram.com/domcorriveau Read

Its weekend project time and I'm fresh off an easy install of Airsonic as my new music streaming server from last week. In this episode I recap how setting up Airsonic went, why Old Man Dominic likes it and our new weekend project. Grab your tech go bag and get ready to make something awesome! Streaming music server - Airsonic https://airsonic.github.io/ Airsonic setup guide: https://airsonic.github.io/docs/install/prerequisites/ New weekend project: Set up your tech go bag https://www.helpscout.com/blog/digital-nomad-hardware-software/ Contact obscurednarration@gmail.com  Get behind the scenes Twitter - https://twitter.com/domcorriveau Instagram - https://instagram.com/domcorriveau Read more Get more hot takes, deeper dives and inside information on tech and how it connects to humans. obscurednarration.com Blog RSS - https://feeds.feedburner.com/obscurednarration Reviews and more tech news on my YouTube Music "Werq", "Basic Implosion" Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com/) Licensed under Cre

Since the Google Stadia announcement, Google has been ripped for its lack of long-term support for its products. Its clear for me that its not if a product dies but if its data is portable. How easy is it to move to a new service? This isn't exclusive to Google, but the myriad of cloud hosted service providers that try to lock you in.  The question is... Do you own your stack? Contact obscurednarration@gmail.com  Get behind the scenes Twitter - https://twitter.com/domcorriveau Instagram - https://instagram.com/domcorriveau Read more Get more hot takes, deeper dives and inside information on tech and how it connects to humans. obscurednarration.com Blog RSS - https://feeds.feedburner.com/obscurednarration Reviews and more tech news on my YouTube Music "Werq", "Basic Implosion" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Subscribe If a daily is just too much for you, I have a single RSS feed that compil

Yesterday's silliness about getting Taco Bell delivered during a fire alarm was fun but today is a serious topic. In this episode of the DC Talks Daily podcast I give my opinion about DNA services working with the FBI and the possible implications. This is my opinion, however it doesn't mean I think I'm right. Based on the information I know this is my stance as of today. I'm willing to keep an open mind, join me in the conversation? Read the news story I'm referencing: https://www.fastcompany.com/90329332/familytreedna-says-it-has-a-moral-responsibility-to-share-dna-data-with-fbi Contact obscurednarration@gmail.com  Get behind the scenes Twitter - https://twitter.com/domcorriveau Instagram - https://instagram.com/domcorriveau Read more Get more hot takes, deeper dives and inside information on tech and how it connects to humans. obscurednarration.com Blog RSS - https://feeds.feedburner.com/obscurednarration Reviews and more tech news on my YouTube Music "Werq", "Basic Implosion" Kevin MacLeod (i