GNOME’s Tracker makes Linux as shitty as Windows
While the new Lenovo placidly runs Debian 13 XFCE installed via Xebian Trixie (not Unstable), there’s still an Acer that has not received any Windows yet and runs MX XFCE.…
Dogville (2003)
I used to avoid Lars von Trier’s shitty experiments called films, as they usually tend to be manifestations of his mental insanity. But I happened to decide to watch Dogville…
Bucureșteanul și intersecțiile
Am observat în spațiul public online românesc o chestiune recurentă pe care nu am abordat-o până acum fiindcă mă enervează. Cum mi-a sărit în față ieri pe Reddit, mi-am zis…
The umpteenth AI compromise
I can't even remember how many times I changed my choice of chatbots in everyday use. Every time one chatbot angered me, I wanted to replace it, but each chatbot…
Did Gemini Pro really get that worse? 4 threads to test it!
I just had 3 conversations with Gemini Pro Extended Thinking. It all started from my refusal to watch two videos about Claude skills, but the first thread evolved into covering…
Chatbots are increasingly useless ● Searching for a watch
I don’t use chatbots to write either texts or code for me. For code, Gemini CLI wasn’t bad when I used it, and Qwen Code was very decent, too, but…
Some changes in Gemini AI
While everyone is expecting Gemini AI 3.5 to be released tomorrow, May 19, at Google I/O 2026, some changes took place in advance. Starting on May 17, 2026, there are…
What if I boycotted all Chinese LLMs? ● Ludditus investigates!
This idea might come as a shock to those who noticed that I was quite a heavy user of Kimi lately. I mostly used it for answers that involved distilling…
Fedora Linux just rejected the idea of an LTS kernel!
I had my suspicions that Fedora Linux is maintained by a bunch of morons who misinterpret or interpret too strictly Red Hat’s requirements, but now I have the proof that…
Small polish touches to Debian 13 installed via Xebian
Since the home page of Xebian insists that this Debian blend (not derivative!), “with only a thin layer for artwork and configuration that differs from Debian,” is “based on Debian Unstable/sid,” I…
Who isn’t on the Big Bad Web?
I’m not a huge fan of Kagi's products and services. Their web search is not free. Kagi Translate seems to be temporarily free, and it usually performs great translations, except…
Is Debian the Answer?
What I meant is this: Is Debian the Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything? The context is that of a new Linux local privilege escalation…
Zooming out (not zoning out!) on some Linux & IT idiocies
① Someone felt contemplative... I was looking for a review of Argent Linux and I noticed this ad hoc philosophy at the end of a review of it in DistroWatch…
My Lenovo’s resume-after-sleep bug fixed in one minute
Somewhere, I mentioned the fact that my new, cheap but premium-finished Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 5 had a single issue under Kubuntu 26.04 LTS: resuming after sleep would break Bluetooth. I…
Updates on GoComics and ComicStripBrowser
① On browsing GoComics.com: Bypassing GoComics’ paywall has been updated with uBlock Origin filters that currently manage to bypass the paywall in Firefox, even under Android! I'll copy here the…
I never saw anything as stupid as Git (and GitHub)
I didn’t lose anything because of the stupidity of Git—to which GitHub adds its own limitations—except for my temper. Too many times. This could have been avoidable if I were…
I’m with stupid technology
I want to summarily address a few topics I didn't want to write about, but given the overall feeling of being pissed off by everything (mostly politics, economy, and society),…
Gemini’s Nano Banana 2 can hallucinate images it was never given 😸😹😻 UPDATED!
I just noticed in r/GeminiAI someone being puzzled by the fact that he asked Gemini (Nano Banana 2) to create an image from an attachment, and he got an image…
On using ffmpeg with Intel GPU
There are a few reasons I neither need nor want a computer with an NVIDIA card. In no particular order: NVIDIA is a pain in the ass under Linux, and…
Why your next budget laptop should be a 14-inch one
If it has to be cheap, make it be 14". Apparently, this magically makes it premium. Here's Copilot answering my questions: Ludditus: Why do I have the impression that 14-in…