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Ubuntu 26.04 LTS ships GNOME 50 with no X11 session at all. Here's which text expanders still work after the upgrade fr…

September 7, 2026

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PowerToys ships 30 utilities and not one of them expands text. Here's the six-year GitHub request history, what Keyboar…

August 6, 2026

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Quick Parts is not gone from Outlook — it shipped to the new Outlook during 2026 and is still rolling out. Here's the v…

August 6, 2026

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Double-clicking a .deb often silently fails on modern Ubuntu. The one command that always works, three fallback methods…

August 4, 2026

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comparisons

TextExpander's subscription vs PhraseExpress's one-time license: platforms, team features, macros, learning curve and t…

August 4, 2026

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AutoHotkey doesn't run on macOS. Here's why, plus the real Mac equivalents — Hammerspoon, Keyboard Maestro, Karabiner-E…

July 27, 2026

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AutoHotkey doesn't run natively on Linux — here's the technical reason why, plus the real alternatives (AutoKey, xdotoo…

July 27, 2026

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voice-typing

Dictation doesn't write dense code well, and it was never supposed to. Here's a realistic look at where voice typing ac…

July 26, 2026

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Espanso's match files work, but every new snippet means opening a YAML file, matching indentation, and restarting the s…

July 26, 2026

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