It has been an incredible year for Wayland fans already. We've already seen a few teams, from desktop environment developers to operating system maintainers, put Wayland in the spotlight in some manner. Some teams are making Wayland the default option, while others are scrapping X11 altogether.

As a cave-dwelling tinkerer, my home lab is essentially a lair of organized chaos, with server rigs in random places and wires dangling off tables. But since I have detailed notes and datacenter-tier asset management tools documenting every aspect of the setup, I’ve got everything under control… for the most part.

There's a certain tone people use when they talk about shucked hard drives. It's usually a mix of skepticism and mild caution, with remarks such as "they're cheap for a reason," and "they'll fail early."

Look, okay, I know I've gone on record for betting on 2026 being the year of gaming on Linux, and I still stand by that prediction. But if you asked me to make a guess as to how the Linux kernel will evolve to help gamers move to the open-source platform, "adding support for a plastic guitar controller for the PS4 and PS5" would be way down the list. And yet, the open-source community has delivered. A recent git pull has revealed that someone has been working hard to add Rock Band 4 support to the Linux 7.0 kernel, and the best bit is that the pull has already been merged.

Lesley Groff, Epstein’s executive assistant. | Image: Jmail The folks behind Jmail are at it again with a clone of Wikipedia that turns the treasure trove of data in Epstein's emails into detailed dossiers on his associates. Entries include known visits to Epstein's properties, possible knowledge of Epstein's crimes, and laws that they might have broken. The reports are dense, listing how many emails they exchanged with Epstein, basic biographical information, and details about how they're connected. Beyond that, there are entries for the properties Epstein owns, detailing how they were acquired and the alleged activities that took place there. There are also entries for his business dealings, incl …Read the full story at The Verge.

If you have ever had issues with your Windows PC, from random slowdowns to app crashes and the dreaded BSOD, you would have, at some point, looked through the Event Viewer. The built-in utility keeps a log of all system events, which can be used for troubleshooting, and the right log can help you identify the faulting module. But let's face it, the Event Viewer can be overwhelming. Scanning through hundreds of log files takes time, and unless you have a fair bit of understanding of the operating system, reading into the logs can be a challenge. This is where another built-in utility comes into the picture.

A few years ago, the default answer to almost any “tiny computer” project was a full single-board computer running Linux. That made sense, because you got drivers, packages, a real filesystem, and every network tool under the sun.

AirDrop makes it look effortless to share files between my iPhone, iPad, and MacBook. But the feature is limited only to Apple’s products. Hence, I end up emailing the files to myself, which feels like an outdated workaround.

I've played tabletop roleplaying games (TTRPGs) since I was a kid, back when maps were drawn on graph paper, and all we had was a bag of dice and an even bigger imagination to get us through the story. Computers were very basic, virtual tabletop software like Foundry was something we could only dream of, and Games Workshop was a tiny company making small board games.

For years, Chrome's offer in the form of a 'save password' prompt was the default path of least resistance. It was good enough until the web started moving towards a password-less future. While it was the easy button, it was also a gilded cage. If Google decided one day that your account was flagged, all of your digital keys go with it including passkeys which meant you would completely be locked out of multiple accounts, pretty much for eternity.

There's something about using hardware to generate a map of the room it's in to be really interesting. A while ago, I covered someone using a Raspberry Pi to make a full LiDAR system, and since then, I've been keeping an eye out for other projects that allow people to map out a room using something similar.

For months, I was caught in the AI subscription cycle and jumped between ChatGPT for blog post ideas, Perplexity for research, and Gemini for my Google Workspace tasks. It felt like I was managing a digital assembly line just to get a single post out of the door. But recently, I hit a breaking point and cancelled them all.