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,…
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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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What a quiet Linux news week actually tells you about the desktop
Most weeks in Linux news are loud without being useful. A new desktop release ships. A distribution swaps out a system component. A vendor tightens the screws on a product you already…
juspay/hyperswitch is a payments router you can actually self host
Small stores that take cards through one processor do not need Hyperswitch. That part is worth saying before anything else, because the rest of this only makes sense if you have already…
BlueFerry tunnels iMessage through Bluetooth so the phone stays put
The first hour of my day has a tiny tax I forget about until I stop paying it. I open a browser at the Linux desk, get into some work, and within…
Portainer froze the free build, and the panic is louder than the news
If you run Portainer (a graphical front-end for managing Docker and Kubernetes containers) on a home server, you have probably seen the panic online this month. The Community Edition is parked on…
Why Clean Phone Software Quietly Picks A Side For You
The longer I keep phones, the more I notice that the “clean software” pitch is doing work that nobody talks about. Two flagship Android phones can both be made by careful engineers,…
Every Browser Default Is A Quiet Vote For Someone Else
I keep installing Chrome on fresh machines, and every time the install wizard hands me a set of values I do not want. The defaults are not bad defaults in any dramatic…
The NAS Upgrade You Were Putting Off Just Got More Expensive
I started shopping for a NAS drive a couple of weeks ago. The plan was simple: replace the spinning disk that has been making a noise I did not like, add another…
Why Boring Desktop Linux Distros Outlive The Flashy Ones
Every few years a new Linux distribution launches with a beautiful animated splash screen, a custom tiling window manager, and a community forum full of screenshots that look great on a developer’s…
Linked Clones And The Quiet Math Of Reusable Machines
I had a Windows reference machine eating most of my laptop, and I needed five copies for testing. I almost did the dumb thing and ran Windows Setup five times. Instead I…