This site is a collection of tips, examples and small chunks of code I’ve used over the years as I’ve worked with Linux. Mostly the items found here are for my own use but I’ve made the site public in the chance that it will help other people. If you find something useful please let me know. Also if you think something I’ve mentioned could be done better I would welcome the feedback.
Read MoreEuro-Office launches its stable 1.0 release on June 9, billed as a ‘truly open’ sovereign alternative to Microsoft Office – a claim riling The Document Foundation, makers of LibreOffice. In an open letter published today, TDF’s Italo …
Read MoreA new open source portal seeks to coordinate and scale open source efforts across the United Nations system.
Read MoreThe goal is to protect you against attackers who try to steal your personal data through prompt injection. But it does limit your ability to access the web.
Read MoreI don’t like the Windows UI, but I made my Pixel 9 Pro and Nubia Pad Pro look like it anyway with HyperDroid. Here’s the result.
Read MoreJust a week since the last 4.6 version, the lightweight Audacious music player announced new 4.6.1 bug-fix release. The new version of this free open-source application adopted XDG cache dir, added new Georgian translation, and fixed some bugs. Improved Flatpak / Snap support First, the new Audacious 4.6.1 now stores temporary files in XDG cache […]
Read MoreIt is open source, self-hostable, and free. What more do you want?
Read MoreOpenAI says ChatGPT’s memory is getting better. But my tests show outdated assumptions, personal profiling, and wrong details that could quietly distort future answers.
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Proton has confirmed it is working on a Proton Drive client for Linux desktops. The announcement slipped out as part of a broader platform update. Proton has rebuilt Drive around a new shared SDK, with a single codebase powering its official apps on Wi…
Read MoreA new version of HandBrake, the open-source and cross-platform media conversion tool, is available to download. HandBrake 1.11.2 is a maintenance update in the current 1.11.x stable release, which was released in March 2026 and added DNxHR and ProRes e…
Read MoreReliving the glory days of the GNOME 2 desktop is but a browser tab away – well, kinda. The personal website of Benny Powers, a software developer at Red Hat, is not a traditional vertical column of text. Nor is it a slop-soup of purple gradients, roun…
Read MoreThe flagship laptop announced at Computex 2026 will feature Nvidia’s new RTX Spark chip with up to 128GB of unified memory.
Read MoreYou can change Android Auto to make the platform unique to you. Here’s how.
Read More6 years of ditching Gmail and I still miss that tiny but handy feature.
Read MoreI spend a lot of time driving. These are the CarPlay apps that make every ride easy.
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Read MoreGNOME 50, the default desktop for Ubuntu 26.04 and Fedora 44, announced its second maintenance update one day ago. The new small version of this popular Linux desktop environment introduced numerous bug-fixes, fixes and improvements for NVIDIA support, as well as its Nautilus file manager and built-in screenshot tool. First, GNOME 50.2 fixed that the […]
Read MoreYou can find, manage, and add blocked numbers from the same place on your iPhone. Here’s where to look.
Read MoreA single cURL command can set you up with a fully themed desktop on top of Hyprland.
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