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Christopher Barnatt is sometimes useful
I once wanted to write a post about the SMR (Shielded Magnetic Recording), which is one of the worst possible ideas of the 21st century! Some retarded, accountant-minded CEO considered…
A cursory look at WPS Office
Years ago, I quite liked Kingsoft Office. I remember I have used it under Win7 and Android. Since the suite became WPS Office (from Writer, Presentation, Spreadsheets, not from “Wonderfully…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Agentic AI 101 with Tina Huang
While I abhor OpenClaw for reasons I won’t list here, there are some advantages of it over more traditional agentic AI workflows. To oversimplify, let’s say it’s a shift from…
Handwriting is fitness for the brain, they say (uni-ball agrees)
I am a scribbler in the literal (not literary) sense: I need paper to organize my thoughts and to make lists or just to jot down something, even if eventually…
Dafuq: Claude Code appears to have leaked! 😱
Via Reddit, via Hacker News: Claude Code's source code has been leaked! 🗄️src.zip Claude code source code has been leaked via a map file in their npm registry! Code: https://t.co/jBiMoOzt8G…
How acidic is your coffee?
Over the last decades, there’s been this trend of telling people that they should try eating “alkaline foods” and drink alkaline water and alkaline teas. Here in Germany, there is…
Grok m-a lămurit cum funcționează de fapt frigiderele
Există o mare diferență între gândirea unui inginer electronist și cea a unui inginer frigotehnist din secolul 21, iar următoarea discuție cu Grok mi-a permis în cele din urmă să…
Nicolas Kovacs, aka Kiki Novak, finds refuge in Debian!
Nicolas Kovacs, a veteran open-source IT expert and Linux instructor, and long-time advocate of CentOS (as well as Slackware), has authored four books, beginning with CentOS 5.3 and ending with…
SSDs are not magic—but YT shorts are somewhat dumb, too
Me: This YT short claims that a SSD might lose information over time if unplugged. It's not like it's RAM, but still electrons move around. However, even if plugged in,…
Upscaler: upscaling the easy way
As I was browsing Flathub, it recommended Upscaler to me. Its website is proud to announce to the world that the developer of this app is a mentally insane individual:…
I tried Inbox Comics, and I liked what I saw
A reader suggested I try Inbox Comics, a free and ad-free service that would send you daily the comics of your choice from a list of over 400 (currently, 439)…
Masochistic me: Win11 IoT on a 2016 laptop slower than N100
Despite my previous post Should we stop wanting to hack-install Win11 on older CPUs?, in which I established that Win11 would be a better fit for my newer Acer, and…
📖 In the unlikely event you installed Lubuntu 25.10…
No, this blog wasn’t hijacked. This comes from the author of 😾 30 Years Defending Linux — Until I Called It Quits. But this is a public service to those…