Ruin Media runs in your browser and wrecks your files on purpose
If you have ever wished your vacation photos looked like they came back from the dead, there is now a tiny web app for that, and it does not phone home to…
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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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Move your DNS resolution off your ISP and onto your Asustor NAS
Every time you open a website, your device asks another server for the address. That server is almost always run by your ISP by default, or by Google, or Cloudflare, and the…
gnome 50.4 ships gdm and glib security patches plus display fixes
GNOME 50.4 dropped this week and most of the press skipped right past it. I almost did too, until I read past the headline and saw what was actually inside. Three real…
The iPhone battery settings that matter over three years
Your iPhone has two battery problems, and most advice mixes them together. One problem is getting through today without hunting for a charger. The other is keeping the battery useful after hundreds…
Replace your YouTube feed with a NAS-based inbox that ignores you less
YouTube’s recommendation engine has one job: keep you watching past the video you actually came for. The home feed is a slot machine wearing a TV guide costume. Most people have cracked…
Linus Torvalds quietly changed his mind on AI. Here’s how.
I have been thinking about how engineers update their opinions, and the role model I keep coming back to is not the one most people would pick. It is a software engineer…
Buy a flip phone by its trade-offs, not its familiar logo
A flip phone asks you to accept compromises that an ordinary slab phone avoids. The crease catches light. The hinge adds weight and another failure point. The cameras usually trail similarly priced…
Five changes that made Claude useful between chat sessions
My first months with Claude followed the same loop: ask a question, get a polished answer, copy part of it somewhere, then lose the useful context before the next conversation. The model…
Turn a Windows laptop into the backup router you already own
I keep a travel router in a drawer, but the last time my home router failed, the little box was across town in a backpack. The useful hardware was already on my…
I almost forwarded a port to check my home camera. The better path
A friend asked me last month how to peek at his porch camera from the office, and before I could stop myself I was halfway through describing port forwarding. Then I caught…