Why that Chrome network error is almost never about Chrome
There is a Chrome error message that almost always gets blamed on Chrome, and the blame is misplaced in most of the cases you will ever see. The wording reads like a…
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Clonezilla 3.3.3-37 finally kills the Secure Boot restore error
I have been writing Clonezilla (a free disk imaging tool that runs from a USB stick and copies whole partitions byte for byte) images to flash drives since the 2.x line. New…
try nixos declaratively without writing your own flake
Three weekends of trying to merge a NixOS machine and a Garuda box taught me a useful lesson: dual-booting means I never actually used one of them, carving a subvolume inside an…
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,…
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…
Your ISP’s DNS Is Also a Logging Pipeline You Never Agreed To
Most of the internet works on a layer nobody ever votes on. Every time a browser asks “where is this website”, the answer comes from somewhere. By default, that somewhere is a…