HDMI-CEC on a Linux PC costs less than fifteen dollars
A few weeks ago I bought a Steam Machine on a lark, set it up in the living room, and watched my partner use it exactly the way Valve hoped people would.…
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Why Windows says a file is in use when nothing is open
You know you closed the file. You saved, you hit the X, you watched the app go away. Then you try to rename or move that file and Windows tells you something…
FreeRDP 3.31 fixes 22 security holes and quiets idle CPU
Twenty-two advisories in one drop is not a maintenance release. It is the FreeRDP project pulling the fire alarm on its own code before someone else does it for them. FreeRDP is…
Looking Glass B7 finally makes a Linux Windows VM feel native
Running a Windows virtual machine inside Linux has always been a series of trade-offs. You get isolation, a real Windows desktop, and the ability to run software that does not have a…
Sysadmin notes on seven Linux projects that did not survive
Every few months I clean out an old partition and find a familiar graveyard. The boot loader still boots into Unity if I let it. A community Maemo kernel sits in a…
Pair Claude Code with a local model and stop rationing limits
A few weeks ago I was hitting the Claude Code rate limit twice a week. The work I was trying to do was not exotic. It was ordinary multi-file refactors and a…
When F5 does nothing in Visual Studio: four config checks
Press F5, expect a debugger, get a dialog that says “Unable to start debugging” instead. It is a bad error message because it tells you nothing about which layer failed, and the…
apache paimon is a streaming lakehouse table format worth trying
What it is, where it fits, and when you should bother Lakehouse storage (a hybrid model that blends a data lake’s cheap object storage with a warehouse’s structured table features) is one…
The three Windows repairs that beat a clean reinstall
The Windows installation USB is still in my desk drawer. I made it in 2021 during a panicked reinstall that took an entire Saturday. It has not been needed since. The reason…
When MacBook WiFi drops on Fedora, the fix is below the driver
Why the driver is rarely the actual cause I have spent more time on Broadcom WiFi (chipsets made by Broadcom, found in most MacBook Pros and many other laptops) on Fedora than…