Today I’ll be showing you how it can actually be pretty simple to get a self hosted monitoring system set up for your home lab. The idea is to collect and visualize key data about your machines, like how much…
Looks cool, doesn’t it? The Alpha release is approaching. We don’t have an exact release date yet, we only know it will be in late July. Still, a completely new desktop environment requires a new brand, and we now have…
I have covered the proposed Chat Control legislation many times here. The end goal is to scan for child abuse messages in all messaging applications, even before the messages are encrypted. Though the proposal claims to preserve end-to-end encryption, many…
On the 18th of June KDE released Plasma 6.1; it features a completely redesigned Edit Mode, easier remote desktop access, persistent apps on Wayland, and the wrong wallpaper. You heard me right: if you update to 6.1, you will not…
NixOS is a Linux distribution based on the Nix package manager. Nix has been trending lately so there’s a good chance you’ve heard of it. But if you went to do some research about Nix you might have gotten a…
This is my first look at the upcoming Linux desktop developed by System76. For many, desktop Linux has felt stagnant over the past year. Major distribution updates have been largely uneventful, and many distros seem to release gimmick features that…
OpenAI released GPT-4o: it’s like GPT-4, but so much better The “o” stands for “omni”, by the way. One of the biggest deals around this new model is that it takes a significant step towards “more natural human-computer interaction”. As…
Recently, I was asked a surprising question: Can you use Windows as a NAS (Network-Attached Storage) operating system? Initially, I reacted with shock and horror, but upon further thought, I realized it’s a valid query worth exploring. Yes, you can…
The Nix Governance Crisis Nix is a declarative package manager, builds packages in isolation from each other, and strongly focuses on reliability (as in, “one package cannot break other packages”). The project is currently undergoing a governance crisis that resulted…
Fedora Workstation 40 has been released I’m always in an awkward spot when talking about new versions of distributions; usually, the user-exciting part is done in the desktop environment, and as a result, the changelog looks like a “let’s remind…
We Were Extremely Close to a Linux Disaster Imagine if all Linux desktops and servers based on Debian, Ubuntu, or Fedora were compromised and thus remotely accessible by an organized malicious developer group, most likely linked to a foreign intelligence.…
GNOME 46 Released! This version is codenamed “Kathmandu”, the Capital city of Nepal. What’s new? Firstly, there’s a new global search function within the Files applications. You enter a query and see all matches from the “configured search locations”, meaning…