Under my bed is a giant box of CDs that I’ve been meaning to rip for years. Some aren’t on Spotify, some are, but not the right version and one is by an artist I’m half convinced is a folk memory – perhaps the Mandela effect in action. Laser is a new GTK4/libadwatia CD ripping…
26 Liam’s Desktop UX Brief: GNOME 51 is a polish-focused release that fixes long-standing desktop annoyances without a flashy redesign. This guide covers what changed, how to try it safely, and what to watch out for before upgrading. GNOME 51, codenamed “A Coruña,” landed on September 16, 2026, and it brings a surprisingly dense batch…
Google’s September 2026 Pixel Update Bulletin contains patches beyond what’s in that month’s regular Android Security Bulletin. According to GrapheneOS, some of those extra patches touch standard Android platform code, the kind that runs on non-Pixel devices, not just Pixel-branded hardware. None of that platform-level code has reached the regular monthly bulletin or the private…
When you run a CPU-heavy task on a shared server, a long compile job or a background backup can slow down everything else. Linux lets you give that process a lower priority, so it receives a smaller share of CPU time when it competes with other work. Use nice to adjust the priority when you…
Wube Software gave Factorio something players have been asking for 11 years – a full ARM64 Linux port to play anywhere, which is ready for the Steam Frame. It is already available and shipping on Steam, you just need to currently be in the Experimental Beta updates branch. They’re also doing a standalone ARM64 Linux…
So far, you have learned the individual building blocks of tmux. You know how to create sessions, organize work with windows, split windows into panes, move between panes, resize them, and use copy mode to work with terminal output. But knowing these features separately is different from actually using tmux. So in this chapter, we’re…
USN-8779-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Bubblewrap. Unfortunately, the fix forCVE-2026-87766 introduced a regression in symlink resolution, preventingcertain Flatpak applications from launching. This update reverts that fixuntil a complete fix is available. We apologize for the inconvenience. Original advisory details: It was discovered that Bubblewrap incorrectly handled certain temporarydirectories. A local attacker could possibly use this issue…
Patching a single Linux machine is easy. You run its update, reboot if the kernel changed, and you’re done. Patching a whole fleet of these machines? Same process, just repeated more often. Now, in a mixed fleet, machines don’t all get updated the same way. Every Linux distribution comes with its own package manager, the…
In April this year, we saw Andy Nguyen turning the PS5 into a Linux-powered gaming PC that ran Steam games and emulators, making good use of the hardware on-board. Sadly, he has now announced that he is walking away from the PS5 hacking scene altogether and is stopping work on porting the project to the…
Canonical recently began producing Ubuntu 26.10 amd64v3 daily ISOs to complement their experimental amd64v3 package archive that they have been trialing the past few release cycles. While we still don’t know what any official plans are for amd64v3 with Ubuntu 26.10, the performance gains can be very worthwhile over the generic amd64 binaries even for…
