My favorite app, Huffduffer, seems to be on its way out. Recently, it stopped working with YouTube and it looks like this is a known issue due to YouTube cracking down on similar services with little chance of a fix.

Following the creator's own suggestion, I’m giving PodQueue a try to see if it can fill the gap.

I don’t use Huffduffer daily, but it serves a unique purpose and does it so well. It brings me real joy to easily convert video audio into a podcast stream, perfect for my walks to and from work.

Once you remove all of the bloat, Windows 11 turns out to be not that bad of an operating system. It's still annoying when it comes to unnecessary notifications etc., but it looks better than Windows 10 and has some good revisions of settings panels and the overall interface.

Trying to install Windows 11 on a laptop is turning out to be more trouble than it is likely worth. Having to first install Windows 10, update everything possible, and then install Windows 11 on top of it means that a normally 20min task is taking almost two hours.

What's laughable about this is that the only reason I'm even doing this is because I find it easier to complete my corporate work from my personal device than to use the locked-down business machine I am provided.

To add to the mayhem, trying to set-up a dual-boot of Windows 11 with Zorin OS (my Linux distro of choice) means even more headaches. Moving to Linux at the beginning of the year as my default operating system was one of the better technical decisions I've made in life. That is, until I realized I also still needed access to Windows on the same device.