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…
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HP put real money behind open firmware. Your next laptop benefits
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,…
One agent to watch a mixed Windows and Linux fleet, finally
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…
One Android toggle buried my notification chaos
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’s royalty-free OCuLink port raises one big question
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…
Three containers that took my homelab from hobby to legit
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),…
OnlyOffice 9.3 finally treats PDF editing as a first-class job
I have been editing PDFs on Linux for about twelve years. Most of those years were bad. The good tools were paid, the free tools were limited, and the workarounds involved piping…
OpenClaw alternatives that survive on cheap single-board computers
I have been running OpenClaw (an open-source agent framework that orchestrates large language models against local tools and APIs) on a handful of single-board computers (SBCs) for the last six months. The…
Essential Linux Mint Keyboard Shortcuts Every User Should Master
Essential Linux Mint keyboard shortcuts every user should master I have been running Linux Mint on my primary laptop for about three years. In that time I have trained myself to reach…
Open Source Weaves Connections Between C
How open source quietly weaves the connections between companies I noticed something the first time I mapped the dependencies in a medium-sized SaaS product. The product was twelve services, a Postgres database,…