Why that Chrome network error is almost never about Chrome
There is a Chrome error message that almost always gets blamed on Chrome, and the blame is misplaced in most of the cases you will ever see. The wording reads like a…
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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.
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One Italian trucking firm saved more by quitting Windows
Most Linux migration stories get pitched as ideology. The one near Bergamo that landed in Mišo Oroz’s queue in early 2026 was arithmetic. Mišo runs a one person IT outfit called Zerolock…
Andy Nguyen quit PS5 Linux after AI bug hunters forced disclosure
The PS5 homebrew story I have been quietly following for the last year just hit a wall, and it is worth writing down because it is a preview of how every future…
Clonezilla 3.3.3-37 finally kills the Secure Boot restore error
I have been writing Clonezilla (a free disk imaging tool that runs from a USB stick and copies whole partitions byte for byte) images to flash drives since the 2.x line. New…
linux mint 22.3 hwe kernel 7.0 isos and who should bother installing
Linux Mint 22.3 published a fresh set of installation images (ISOs) carrying Linux Kernel 7.0, aimed squarely at owners of machines the default LTS (long-term support) base struggles to support. Whether the…
try nixos declaratively without writing your own flake
Three weekends of trying to merge a NixOS machine and a Garuda box taught me a useful lesson: dual-booting means I never actually used one of them, carving a subvolume inside an…
Linux cloud gaming is finally real, and here is who should care
The reason this article is short is that the news is not complicated. NVIDIA moved its streaming client out of beta this month and started shipping a real Linux binary instead of…
sparkleshare got rescued and your dependencies probably wont be
The recent SparkleShare story is straightforward: a single maintainer kept a Git-based file sync project alive on fumes for years, finally landed a grant, and now has time to fix the long-broken…
garuda nix is now a real option for nixos users too
Most of the coverage around the Garuda Nix release has been about new users, the graphical installer, and the friendlier on-ramp. That angle is correct, but it leaves out a quieter story.…
openSUSE silently fixed the small board bugs you stopped noticing
I keep a Raspberry Pi running in a closet because I want to know whether small Linux distributions actually do what they claim. It runs a few services, sits there for weeks,…