My homelab runs on containers, and while most of them are LXC’s on Proxmox, I also run them in Docker Desktop while I’m testing things. I’ve never liked that program, and it's a necessary evil, so when Microsoft shipped WSL Containers (wslc) in the latest WSL pre-release, I had to know if I could ditch Docker Desktop for good.

Right now, if you want to play an Epic Games Launcher title on Linux, you can't use the official client. Instead, you need to use a community-maintained workaround, such as Heroic. Despite being silent for years on the topic, a representative from Epic Games has confirmed that a Linux-native version of its launcher is on the way, but the Heroic team isn't too worried about it.

I've been experimenting with self-hosting for a while, and I recently started thinking about how easy it would be to rebuild my server if I ever had to start over. Docker already makes it easy to recreate containers, but I wanted to take that idea a step further. What if I could define the main components of my home server in one place and restore everything with a single command?

Every productivity app I've written about this year has more or less the same vibe and rhythm to it. You usually download and install it, then before it does anything useful, you have to pick a template or set up some type of system first. And I think this upfront tax is the reason why so many productivity tools end up unused after the first weekend.

Given that we're all computer enthusiasts here at XDA, you can already guess that we're very passionate about people backing up their data. Even if nothing catastrophic happens, you'll never know when one might come in handy. Such is the case with Jagex, which revealed in a recent interview that the only reason Old School RuneScape (OSRS) became a thing was that someone had an old server sitting in a drawer.

Fire TV Sticks are undoubtedly a great streaming device for average home users. I have had one for years, and it has turned my dumb TV into something much more capable. I usually carry it with me on vacations, so whenever I am in a hotel or Airbnb, my entire watchlist is right there. Ever since I got a travel router, I don't even have to worry about internet connectivity.

Justin Blinder had just been laid off when he first came up with the idea for Ground Truth. It was 2020, two weeks before covid lockdown went into effect, and the Brooklyn-based artist and technologist had no idea what the future would hold. He started working for the food delivery apps, and as he was riding his bike across the city, he began noticing the stark differences between neighborhoods."I really started to kind of become a bit more aware of how different neighborhoods, often right next to each other, could feel very economically and psychologically very far apart, even though it's just really within close proximity," he said. "And …Read the full story at The Verge.

On the surface, cloud-based productivity applications have some neat perks, especially if you’re a student about to embark on your new school year. Rather than worrying about the hardware specs on the underlying machine, you can just fire up a web browser and access them from anywhere, all without worrying about maintaining backups. That said, most cloud apps tend to paywall essential features behind paid subscriptions, meaning you’ll have to spend dozens of dollars every month just to access your application stack. Privacy is another major issue with cloud utilities, even more so for projects where you wouldn’t want companies to get their grubby hands all over your personal data.

Almost exactly a year ago, we caught wind that Microsoft was adding a =COPILOT tool to Excel. The idea behind the feature was that you didn't need to manually type out a formula; instead, you told Copilot what you wanted in plain English, and it would do all the hard work for you.

Back-to-school season looks very different to me now than it did a few years ago. Admittedly, some of that is just age. Stationery stores are no longer my first stop, and I’m not spending nearly as much time picking out notebooks, pens, and folders as I once did.

Every week, the KDE community gives us a peek into what's cooking in the upcoming versions of KDE Plasma. For today's This Week in Plasma, the community has revealed that KDE Plasma 6.8 will finally fix remote desktop sessions not sharing the clipboard both ways. And while KDE Plasma 6.8 is still a few months from release, it's nice to see that something's being done about this annoying issue.

If it has been a few years since you built your PC, chances are you haven't thought of this component since you put your cooling solution on top of your CPU's heat spreader at all. Over time, your PC starts running hotter than it used to, the fans spin up sooner, and load temperatures creep past numbers you had never seen before. You don't notice any of this until a demanding game drops you straight to the desktop.