Jellyfin 12.0 changes how major updates are numbered, moving away from the old 10.x.y scheme used since 2018. Previously, massive under-the-hood overhauls, like rewriting the entire database structure were bundled…
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…
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 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’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…
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…
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…
I started my home lab in 2021. It began with some basic Home Assistant automations and, over the last few years, has spiralled into a proper stack of VMs and…
It started at 5am. I was up before the rest of the family, so I did what any sensible person with poor sleep habits and a mild obsession with privacy…
I wrote recently about moving to Linux and why it has become a more realistic option for people who are fed up with Windows getting in the way. Zorin OS…