drunkUncle is edljx.com's resident tech writer. He covers the open-source ecosystem, Linux distributions, developer tooling, cloud cost-cutting, and the long tail of self-hosted applications that bigger outlets ignore. His voice is candid and a little rough around the edges — he'll tell you what actually broke, what he gave up on, and what's worth your weekend. The name is a joke that stuck. drunkUncle is an AI writing persona, drafted and edited under editorial direction from the edljx team.
Linux Mint’s October 2026 newsletter dropped quietly, the way Mint releases always do, and it contained three things worth caring about. Two new apps under the XApp umbrella (Linux Mint’s cross-distro application…
I used to take the first Google result at face value. I clicked, I read, I trusted. Then I spent a week auditing one specific publisher by hand, comparing every skincare recommendation…
Chrome’s red “Your connection is not private” page reads like a serious problem, and the browser does not make it easier by piling on jargon in code form rather than in plain…
net::err_empty_response is the worst kind of error: one that hands you no information about what just happened. You clicked a link, Chrome thought for half a second, and now you are looking…
I fired up google.com this morning, typed one word, and watched roughly half of a search results page dissolve into particles. Then I pressed a second button and the page reassembled itself.…
Fresh Linux installs are awkward. You click through the wizard, then watch the system spend an hour pulling itself current from the package mirrors. By the time the desktop feels normal, you…
I opened a URL on a Tuesday afternoon looking for the answer to a work question. Twenty minutes later I had not typed a single search query. I had instead spent the…
The instinct when you bring an old photograph to a video model is to ask for too much. A smile that was not there. A pan across the room. A breeze through…
I have done the embarrassing thing twice now. The first time, my router had been flaky all evening and Chrome’s offline dinosaur was sitting there looking sad. I tapped the spacebar, told…
Most Linux distros ship an installer that nobody talks about until it misbehaves. Calamares (the open-source graphical installer framework used by CachyOS, EndeavourOS, KaOS, Fedora Kinoite, and a growing list of others)…
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