Rebuilding the Debian secure boot chain when a BIOS update wipes it
A BIOS update that resets secure boot keys is one of the most disorienting hardware events a Linux user can run into. You boot the machine, the BIOS loads, and suddenly every…
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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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Why a 2022 Ioniq 5 costs less than a Corolla in 2026
Used 2022 Hyundai Ioniq 5 crossovers are listed for $22,000 to $25,000 at US dealers in mid-2026, several thousand dollars under the sticker of a base 2026 Toyota Corolla sedan. The gap…
Why picking the best AI model is the wrong question
The AI world has a leaderboard obsession, and it is costing people real time and real money. Every week another round of benchmark numbers drops, and the smart take is always the…
Why most consumer 3D prints fail and the cheap fix that works
My first year with a consumer FDM printer was mostly spent blaming the wrong thing. I thought the slicer was the problem, then I thought the bed leveling was the problem, then…
When VirtualBox NAT resolves DNS but blocks every browser session
VirtualBox NAT networks are supposed to be the boring default. You install a guest OS, leave the network mode on NAT, and the guest reaches the internet through the host’s interface. Most…
Google Wallet Hides Five Useful Features Behind the Pay Button
Most Android users treat Google Wallet like a single-purpose tool. You tap your phone at the register, the transaction goes through, you close the app and forget about it. That is the…
Stop blaming your ISP: four free tools for diagnosing slow internet
Most slow internet problems are not what people think they are. The plan is not too slow. The router is not broken. The ISP is not throttling you. Something specific is happening…
What Copilot in Excel quietly decides to skip on a messy sheet
I gave Copilot in Excel a deliberately chaotic workbook and a single short prompt, then I sat back and watched what it would actually do. The result surprised me in a way…
Set up authenticated SOCKS5 proxies in Chromium from a flag
Chromium’s built-in proxy dialog is the first thing most people try when they need to route traffic through a SOCKS5 server (a network proxy that relays TCP connections at the session layer,…
You can keep using open source without ever merging a pull request
Pull requests are loud. Documentation fixes are not. Most of the open source community runs on the quiet half, the people who fix a typo, write a paragraph, file a clean bug,…