Xbox finally admits PlayStation’s platinum trophy was a good idea
So Xbox is finally catching up to something PlayStation owners have had for years. Per a public exchange on X (the social network, not the box), Xbox CEO Asha Sharma confirmed that…
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Big Walk on PS5 looks great, but the co-op-only catch is real
Big Walk launched on PS5 with a Metacritic score of 92, which is the kind of number that usually means “this is the consensus pick of the year.” House House, the studio…
Hunting duplicate files from inside Ranger’s filter stack
Ranger (a terminal file manager for Linux) has a feature most people who use it have never touched: the filter stack. It is one of those parts of the program that sits…
A detached LUKS header bit me on encrypted ZFS, here is what I tried
I spent an entire Saturday trying to boot a fresh Arch install with an encrypted root, a ZFS pool on top of LVM (logical volume management, the Linux kernel’s framework for carving…
Rebuilding the Debian secure boot chain when a BIOS update wipes it
A BIOS update that resets secure boot keys is one of the most disorienting hardware events a Linux user can run into. You boot the machine, the BIOS loads, and suddenly every…
When VirtualBox NAT resolves DNS but blocks every browser session
VirtualBox NAT networks are supposed to be the boring default. You install a guest OS, leave the network mode on NAT, and the guest reaches the internet through the host’s interface. Most…
Set up authenticated SOCKS5 proxies in Chromium from a flag
Chromium’s built-in proxy dialog is the first thing most people try when they need to route traffic through a SOCKS5 server (a network proxy that relays TCP connections at the session layer,…
Real Python mixin quiz: 10 questions that sharpen your eye
Mixin classes are the kind of Python feature that experienced developers use without thinking, then stumble on when they have to explain them. The pattern is small, but the pitfalls hit hard:…
Stop Windows Update from restarting your work: a tiered guide
Windows Update is one of those background systems that works fine until it does not. The default behavior on Windows 10 and 11 is to download updates in the background and install…
Security first, then privacy: a working priority order
When people argue about which tools to use, the security-versus-privacy debate usually goes nowhere because both sides are talking past each other. The arguments for privacy-focused tools (“I do not want Google…