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I have a confession. I almost skipped the AMD P-State patch thread when it first crossed my radar, because the title read like every other kernel mailing list post. Driver update. Frequency…
I have been keeping my old mid-tower running 24/7 for about six years. The original reason was a home server I never quite finished setting up. The reason I kept it running…
Picture a building with two staircases running between every floor, both fully maintained, both lit. Tearing one down looks like nothing from the street. It is actually a quiet admission that the…
The on-call rotation got paged at 11:47pm a few months ago because a critical kernel CVE dropped. We had three hours to either patch fifty Ampere Altra boxes (a 64-bit ARM server…
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…
For years, updating firmware on Linux felt like asking a club bouncer to let you in while wearing the wrong shoes. You had the hardware. You had the OS. But the firmware,…
I ran a small mixed-fleet shop for two years with one Windows EDR (endpoint detection and response, software that watches a machine for suspicious activity and reports it back to a central…
I have used Android for over a decade. Notifications are why I stayed. iPhone notifications are a joke by comparison. For years, my tray was clean, the apps I cared about floated…
Framework has been on my radar since 2021, when the original Framework Laptop 13 started shipping. The pitch was clean: a thin-and-light laptop where every component, including the mainboard, is user-replaceable. Six…
I run a homelab with a Proxmox cluster (a setup where Proxmox, an open-source virtualization platform, lets one physical machine run many virtual machines and containers as if they were separate servers),…
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