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…
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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…
From GrapheneOS to iodéOS: finding a de-Googled phone that works for me
A few months ago I finally got around to switching my Google Pixel over to GrapheneOS. The install was refreshingly painless, the bootloader re-locked without complaint, and the web installer…
The Great Betrayal: Why I Put Windows Back on My Handheld
I’ve done something I genuinely thought I’d never do again: I installed Windows as the primary OS on my main handheld device, my ROG Ally X. To be clear, my…
The “Nude” Ultimatum: My Phone is Not a Government Narc
The UK government has officially gone off the deep end, giving Apple and Google a three-month ultimatum: build device-level scanning to detect “illegal images” or we’ll pass laws to force…
Plex, Plex Pass, and the Slow Creep of Enshittification
I’ve been a Plex user since 2012. Back then, I paid around £50 for a lifetime Plex Pass. It felt like a bargain. Plex was a genuinely useful piece of…
Simple Tricks to Make Your Docker Setup Safer in Your Home Lab
Docker is great for tinkering, slap containers together and off you go. Then you add Vaultwarden or JumpServer and start worrying about security. Don’t panic: small, sensible tweaks close the…