fedora 45 beta is the release where the quiet parts matter most
Most Fedora release notes are mostly a parts list. Kernel went up by one, desktop went up by one, half a dozen libraries did the same thing, everyone clapped, on to the…
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VirtualBox 7.2.18 quietly closes the papercuts I had stopped noticing
My Linux host runs three VirtualBox VMs at any given time. About a month ago, I started to dread rebooting the Windows 11 box. The crash was happening on saved-state restore, in…
Running the Ubuntu 26.10 snapshot on a partition you can erase
I have a fifty gigabyte partition on a spare laptop that exists for one reason: to let me break Ubuntu on purpose. Every six months, when the next release enters its snapshot…
Fedora 45 Beta is the upgrade worth testing this weekend
Why I cleared the weekend I have been quietly dreading this release. The September 15, 2026 Fedora 45 Beta is the first one in years where the jump underneath the surface felt…
Thunderbird 156 quietly closes the gap on self hosted mail OAuth
My home mail server has been the canary for Thunderbird’s custom OAuth support for about a year. Every few weeks, the desktop client pops a warning asking me to re-enter my password,…
The Raspberry Pi dock that finally makes the OS a daily driver
I have been running Pis on my desk for six years. For most of that time I told anyone who wanted a real desktop experience to install Ubuntu or Pop!_OS instead. The…
Kubuntu is the Linux desktop Windows users stop fighting
I have spent a year recommending Kubuntu over Linux Mint for most people, and I have watched my support emails drop to almost nothing. The friendlier distro is not always the better…
Give your old PC a Linux job instead of a recycling bin
I have a habit of poking around in other people’s closets. The find is almost always the same: a mid-2000s beige tower, a working power button, and a hard drive that has…
A dedicated recorder earns its keep when you stop trusting the phone
I used to think the dedicated meeting recorder was a solved problem that nobody needed. The phone in my pocket has a microphone, a recording app, and storage for a week of…
A fifteen dollar Pi Zero 2 W replaced my fifty dollar cloud bill
For two years I had been handing over $50 a month to a small cloud provider to run four pieces of software that, between them, barely touched the network. Pi-hole (a tool…