Mugs and Mugs: A Grown-Up’s Guide to the Third Place

With age, I've come to realize that the third place that work for me are actually two places.  One would be the café, and the other the bar. Since I find that coffee and beer have become my go-to beverages when I want to relax. meet friends, do some writing, or just take my mind off whatever is bringing me down at the moment.

That is why I tend to prefer small-to-medium places, that play music that blends with the background when I'm there with friends, or just want to put on my headphones to listen to some of my favorite music. That it has WiFi is a big bonus, specially since I like to blog, stream music at times, or just watch some YouTube. Yet, consideres a bit of an option since I can use my smartphone as a hotspot, or I don't need it when I'm with friends or with coworkers.

My favorite cafés, and bars, tend to lend themselves to be places I can socialize or work in a more relaxed manner. Cozy in a way that helps to relaxed, and create a more friendly atmosphere depending on the situation.

The choice of going to a café, or a bar, is more dependent on if I'm going alone or with a friends, the time of the day, and my mood at the moment. As I said, coffee and beer are both my favorite drinks for some time off, do some work, and everything in-between. The weather may come into play, but more so when is hot. When is raining or a bit cold, either drink does a great job hitting the right spot when I need them to.

For now I can recommend Tierra Café, Magma Café, and La Flor de Cordoba. The first two are small cafés with a single location, while La Flor de Cordoba is more a mall chain that has managed to makes its locations feel friendly and cozy.

On the bar side of things, the one I can recommend and go regularly is Santas Alitas. They follow the franchise model, but they do well in making each location fit its surroundings. While all the locations feel cozy and relaxed, the main difference you find in each one it the music they play, and how the waiters serve. All are quite friendly, there are some minor difference depending on the main clientèle they serve at each location.

Other bars I also like, but stop going on regular basis because of the distance and opening hours is Over Wings and Games Bar, but are bars that I'd happily return if I have the chance. The same goes for DrünkenTap de Paseos del Sol, which is more of a craft beer spot, for those who like that type of beer.

At the end of the day, each will choose the third place that better suits their personal preferences. 

Finding the Perfect Remote Desktop Fit: Why RustDesk Beats AnyDesk for Me

After using AnyDesk for a couple of weeks, it didn't fit my needs. The license for the features I need is just to expensive. So, after a some research I moved to RustDesk, and it got all I need.

RustDesk is easy to use, and with a cleaner user interface that allows me to use it effectively. The best thing, is that my use of RustDesk means I don't have to buy a license since I don't need the features that come with it. As such, in both pricing and feature set RustDesk is a far better fit.

After a week of using RustDesk daily, I can say it is quite a good option. For me, the fact that it is open-source software, and it works on Linux Mint, RustDesk the more attractive option. Specially since I prefer to avoid proprietary software when there is an open-source option that works at least as well.

Honestly, RustDesk and Remmina have become my remote desktop apps of choice.  While their use cases are a bit different, I would choose any of them depending on what I need to do. In the case of RustDesk, that is works on Windows and macOS too gives it an edge for me over the apps of the competition. 

The Cozy Side of Linux: How Steam and Linux Mint Brought Back My Gaming Hobby

If you told me five years ago I'd be playing video games via Steam on Linux Mint, on the daily basis I wouldn't have believed you.

Currently I play Palia, and from time to time I also play Sword of Convallaria. Both run rather smoothly on Linux Mint, so much so that Palia has become my cozy place to relax, and just forget about the world for a while. While there has been some hip cups along the way, the experience has been mostly positive, and getting better with each update of Steam on Linux.

So much so, that there have been days when I've lost track of time while playing. Honestly, if I could do anything to improve the gaming experience I have, it would be to add more RAM to my laptop just to give myself a wider margin in RAM usage during my gaming sessions while playing Palia, since is the game that seems to need a bigger RAM overhead.

As such, there are a lot of games on Steam than 16 GB of RAM would be more than enough, just as they would need on Windows. So, at the end comes to what each gamer actually needs to run the games they want without issues.

I didn't need much more reasons to stay on Linux Mint, but now that gaming on Linux Mint is actually doable easily is makes staying that much easier.

The Linux Mint development team has made strides on making the OS better with time, and now that they have made the choice take a longer development time to actually release an update with all the updates they want to make in a polished manner, makes for a better choice for an OS for more users.

Linux Mint is truly an user focused Linux distro.