If you’re a Linux user who loves retro gaming, you’ve probably felt my pain. I have a passion for the Game Boy Advance, and a growing collection of cartridges—some original, some modern reproductions. While I love discovering fan translations and playing old favorites, I hit a wall that drove me nuts: many of my games … Read more
I remember a late-night server deployment back in 2012. Everything was perfect until we hit a kernel panic. The culprit? A freshly updated kernel that had a blood feud with the proprietary NVIDIA driver we were using for some CUDA-accelerated task. We spent hours in a cold data center, manually rebuilding modules, cursing Linus Torvalds … Read more
I remember it like it was yesterday. I was balls-deep in some popular cloud note-taking app. My whole life was in there. Then, one “routine” server-side update went sideways, and poof—half my notes, including critical config snippets for a client’s server migration, just vanished. Support was a brick wall. It was a brutal reminder: when … Read more
Let’s get one thing straight before you go any further with that new VPS. You just spun up a shiny new Virtual Private Server (VPS). You’re feeling powerful. You’ve got root access, a fresh OS install, and big dreams of hosting your world-changing app. But let me tell you a story. I remember this one … Read more
Alright, gather ’round, because I’m about to tell you a story that will sound painfully familiar to anyone who’s been in the Linux trenches for more than a week. It was a Tuesday. A quiet, unassuming Tuesday. I was managing a fleet of web servers for a client, and one of them needed a “simple” … Read more
Guys (and girls), let’s take a look at something interesting. I remember the first time I got my hands on a Raspberry Pi. I looked at this tiny little board and thought, “Cute. A toy.” Then I saw some maniac running a full-blown Kubernetes cluster on a stack of them, and it hit me: never, … Read more
Alright, let’s have a little chat. I remember this one buddy of mine, a brilliant dev, could code circles around most people. But he got lazy. He was running some half-assed, closed-source crypto wallet on a Windows partition he barely maintained, probably hadn’t updated since the last ice age. One morning, he wakes up, logs … Read more
The journey to select the perfect web browser on a Linux system is a quintessential reflection of the Linux philosophy itself: unparalleled freedom, profound customization, and absolute user control. Unlike the more constrained ecosystems of Windows and macOS, the landscape of Linux browsers is a vast and varied terrain, offering everything from mainstream powerhouses to … Read more
Apple’s MacBooks are masterpieces of hardware engineering. Their build quality, stunning displays, and powerful processors are the envy of the industry. But what if you could pair that world-class hardware with the unparalleled freedom, control, and power of a Linux operating system? For years, this has been the holy grail for many developers, power users, … Read more
In the digital world, your passwords are the keys to your kingdom. They guard everything from your bank accounts and private emails to your work projects and social media presence. Juggling dozens, or even hundreds, of unique, complex passwords is not just a challenge—it’s an impossible task for the human brain. Reusing “P@ssword123!” across multiple … Read more