Dinky replaced three Mac compression apps in my dock
I was running ImageOptim for images, HandBrake for video, and a paid PDF tool for shrinking documents. That is three apps to install, three menus in my dock, and three different mental…
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Plex’s $750 lifetime pass and GitHub’s pricing bombshell, side by side
I read the Self-Host Weekly digest for the week of 22 May 2026 the morning after it landed, and two stories have been sitting in my head since. The first is Plex…
My 2014 ProBook is more repairable than anything made since
I still own an HP ProBook 640 G1 from 2014. It is not a museum piece. It runs Windows 11, it has been opened more times than my two newer laptops combined,…
Ollama or LocalAI, and which one to actually install
Most people who want to run large language models (LLMs, the AI systems that generate text and code) on their own machine have heard of Ollama. You install it, type ollama run…
That mysterious Secure Boot folder, and why you must not delete it
I noticed a new folder in File Explorer last week called Secure Boot and I almost deleted it. It appeared after a routine cumulative update (a single patch that bundles security fixes,…
Windows Settings opens to a blank pane. Here’s the actual fix.
I clicked the Start button, opened Settings, and saw nothing. The window was open, the title bar said “Settings,” the sidebar had the section names, but the right pane was empty. No…
Six R linters worth installing before you ship another script
I keep a small R project that runs nightly, processes about 40,000 rows of CSV data, and ships the cleaned output to a Postgres database (an open-source relational database management system). Last…
FOSS Weekly: the Linux stories from week 26 worth your time
This is the week that Brave decided to give Linux users a free browser that costs $59.99 for everyone else, Canonical remembered that ARM64 servers exist, and a small tiling window manager…
Rclone UI: a real graphical face for the command-line workhorse
I have been using rclone from the command line for about three years. It runs my offsite backups, syncs files between the two cloud providers I keep subscriptions with, and handles the…
iodé figured out how to make de-Googled Android actually usable
A few weeks back I read a conversation between the team at It’s FOSS and Brian from iodé, a de-Googled Android project that has been getting more attention lately. The interview covered…