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Nate K.M. Bowie

@natebowie

Hobbyist Author/Content Creater. Post mostly about tech + whatever else I feel like.

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Nate K.M. Bowie
@natebowie May 31, 2023, 12:14 AM UTC

Turning a Physical Book/Doc into an ebook/doc with OCR

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjVXKuySF5Y Here I go into how to scan physical books and documents, run optical character recognition (OCR) using Tesseract to make those scans searchable, and option…

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Nate K.M. Bowie
@natebowie Apr 26, 2023, 1:00 AM UTC

10 Years on Linux

A little over a decade ago Windows 8 was entirely unusable for me. I’m not referring to the mobile-style UI and bloat that marked a change in Windows, but I mean unusable in the none dramatic sense o…

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Nate K.M. Bowie
@natebowie Apr 10, 2023, 9:15 AM UTC

The Mullvad Browser is Neat

--- Mullvad Browser --- The other day I saw a post from the Tor Project about them collaborating with Mullvad on a browser project. It’s pretty much the Tor Browser without Tor, i.e. a fork of Firefo…

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Nate K.M. Bowie
@natebowie Apr 9, 2023, 9:55 AM UTC

$35 Chromebook to a full fledged laptop ➡️ Installing Another OS (revised ed.)

https://youtu.be/_Ktlnf1RQCg --- My previous video on this topic is sitting at nearly 3k views on YouTube, making it one of my most watched videos. Ironically, had some missing info in it, and almost…

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Nate K.M. Bowie
@natebowie Feb 2, 2023, 11:33 AM UTC

3 Structures of Private Messengers, how they work and their Pros/Cons

## Video Version https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAx_C8_uLeI --- ## Text Version --- Today I thought I would talk about messengers, specifically, the different types of messengers and how they work.…

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Nate K.M. Bowie
@natebowie Dec 14, 2022, 11:25 AM UTC

Would Creators Benefit from RSS? (IMO, yes)

Quick Tip: You can get a feed for your own Hive.Blog profile by sharing https://hiverss.com/[@yourname]/blog such as: https://hiverss.com/@natebowie/blog --- Previous Related posts Why I like RSS How…

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Nate K.M. Bowie
@natebowie Dec 6, 2022, 11:32 AM UTC

Creating Hostable RSS Feeds from Scratch

## Video Version https://youtu.be/z5R7z0C_onU --- ## Text Version After a little trial and error I’ve found what I think is the best way to manually create an RSS file for self hosting a feed that ca…

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Nate K.M. Bowie
@natebowie Nov 20, 2022, 1:36 AM UTC

Get RSS Feeds for Nearly Anything

# Video Version https://youtu.be/ywiW42LBzjs --- # Text Version I wrote a bit about feeds already, namingly why feeds are The Best™, how to make a self hosted feed from scratch, and why I think creat…

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Nate K.M. Bowie
@natebowie Nov 18, 2022, 7:09 AM UTC

Consider Checking Out Mastodon

Thought I would share a video on the federated social media platform Mastodon. If you've been following me it'll be obvious this video isn't by me, but is a great overview of the platform and embeddi…

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Nate K.M. Bowie
@natebowie Oct 27, 2022, 10:28 AM UTC

The Best™ way to follow content (RSS Feeds)

## Video Version Sorry, the video's audio didn't turn out too good, though it's not a total loss. https://youtu.be/qjD0JiReno8 ## Text Version I hopefully got your attention with that title, but yeah…

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