OpenAltFinder matches proprietary apps to free open-source ones
You need to do a job on a computer, and the only tool you know for it costs money, or worse, phones home with everything you do. You have heard there is…
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Three touchpad settings that fix a stuck left-click problem
My touchpad started treating every tap as a left-click last week. Not “mostly left-click with occasional right-click.” Every single tap. Open a folder, get a left-click. Right-click on a file to rename…
Microsoft Defender broke VLC’s MP3 loading, not the other way
A recent thread on X blamed VLC for slow MP3 playback, then turned out to be a Microsoft Defender bug. The whole argument is more useful as a debugging case study than…
Kernel cleanup in Mint and 16,000 desks off Microsoft Office
The FOSS Weekly #26.33 roundup from It’s FOSS collects a week of Linux news, and two items in it are worth more attention than a newsletter bullet gives them. Linux Mint is…
Top and side taskbar placement lands in Windows 11 testing
For most of the Windows 11 era, the taskbar has had exactly one legal home: the bottom edge of the screen. That is changing. Windows Central reports that the latest Insider Preview…
Comparing seven AI writing tools in 2026 without buying hype
The most common pattern in this category is paying for four AI writing subscriptions at once, running each of them through the same brief, and only realizing partway through month two that…
makerskills runs fine on Linux once you swap three macOS-only pieces
Claude Code is an AI coding assistant that lives in your terminal. makerskills is a plugin for it: a bundle of Markdown files that tell Claude how to handle different types of…
Why networking interview prep lists the wrong answers
Most linux interview prep lists the same 20 networking questions, with the same textbook answers, and most of them are wrong about which questions come up in a real interview. I have…
simplex chat asks its own users to fund the next year
Privacy-focused messaging apps have a recurring problem. The people who care about privacy are not the same people who pay for software. Most users expect the app to be free, the server…
shadow ai lives in the browser tab, not the perimeter
The loudest threat actors in 2026 are not the ones you read about on a Friday night. They are the ones already inside your building, sitting at a desk, doing their job.…