The Stack: A Tour of My Privacy-First Home Lab
I’ve never been terribly good at letting commercial cloud providers hold onto my life. Between wanting actual ownership of my data, a lingering distrust of corporate telemetry, and the sheer…
August 2026
August 2026
Sweeping Out the Nineties: Linux 7.2 Finally Kills Off Ancient x86 Fallbacks
Linux 7.2 officially slams the door on x86 processors that lack a Time Stamp Counter. We are finally shedding legacy fallback timing code that is genuinely older than some of…
Linux Gaming, It’s Just Getting Started
Linux gaming hasn’t won a thing yet. Anyone telling you the war is over hasn’t tried playing a major multiplayer game with kernel-level anti-cheat lately, or dealt with a broken…
I Added Analytics to the Blog: Here’s Exactly What I’m Collecting
I’ve spent years shouting about privacy. And now, I’ve installed a tracker. I know. The irony is thick enough to cut, and the hypocrisy probably looks huge from where you’re…
Returning to the Familiar: Why I’m Back on Fedora
I’ve been stuck in the Windows ecosystem since version 3.1. Think about the legacy there. You build up a certain kind of muscle memory over three decades that’s hard to…