If you installed Ubuntu 26.04 LTS and noticed video and music files weren’t showing image thumbnails in the file manager, a packaging oversight was to blame, not anything you did. It turns out that Ubuntu’s Default install option (aka minimal install) wasn’t pulling in the gst-audio-thumbnailer and gst-video-thumbnailer packages which generate media thumbnails when you…
It was discovered that the Linux kernel algif_aead module did not properlyhandle in-place cryptographic operations. This flaw is known as Copy Fail.A local attacker could use this to escalate privileges, or possibly escapea container. (CVE-2026-31431) It was discovered that the Linux kernel did not properly handle shared pagefragments during socket buffer operations, collectively known as…
14 Marcus’s Hardware Brief: Bluetooth on Linux has gone from “it might work” to “it just works” in the last two years. BlueZ 5.85, PipeWire’s unified audio graph, and the maturation of LE Audio mean your headphones, mice, and keyboards should connect without a single terminal command. But when they don’t, this guide is the…
Read through almost any shell script or crontab and you will eventually find something like > /dev/null 2>&1 tacked onto the end of a command. It looks cryptic, but it is one of the most common patterns in Linux, and it does one simple thing: it throws output away. Understanding /dev/null clears up a whole…
If you love podcasts and you love the look of GTK4/libadwaita apps then you’ll be pleased to hear a new version of the GNOME Podcasts app has been released. If you’ve never heard of it, Podcasts is a capable, no-fuss podcast app for Linux. It offers a streamlined set of features in a clean, user-friendly user-interface….
My Downloads folder is a crime scene. My home directo Thousands of files with names like IMG_2048.jpg, Copy_of_final_FINAL_v3.pdf, and untitled(2).docx accumulated over years of telling myself I’d sort it out later. I never did. I tried manual sorting. I tried renaming scripts. Nothing stuck because the real problem isn’t laziness, it’s that I don’t know…
DistroWatch.com: XIVA Studio Last Update: 2026-06-05 19:14 UTC XIVA Studio is a multimedia-oriented Linux distribution derived from Manjaro Linux and BigLinux. It’s main goal is to cater to the needs of professional creators in the area of video, audio, graphics and animation production. XIVA Studio provides optimised Linux kernels built for a number of popular…
If your AI coding agent keeps reading the same files every time you ask a question, it’s wasting time and tokens on work that could be answered almost instantly. I’ve been using Claude Code and a few other AI coding agents with a medium-sized Django project for the past few months, and I kept noticing…
Microsoft has spent the last few years stuffing Notepad with AI tools, Markdown support, and cloud-tied credits, chipping away at the simple, local text editor it used to be. Basic editing still works without signing in, but the AI features don’t. You need a Microsoft account just to check your remaining monthly AI credits. That’s…
Collabora Productivity got into the desktop editor market last year when they launched Collabora Office, an office suite built on the same rendering mechanism as Collabora Online, but focused on offline use. They came up with this so people could get the same editing experience online or offline without needing to re-learn their way around…
