Tag: open source

A home lab desk setup showing three stacked Dell OptiPlex small form factor PCs, a Star Trek mug on a coaster, a keyboard, mouse, and dual monitors displaying terminal windows and code, with a bookshelf and window in the background.

The Stack: A Tour of My Privacy-First Home Lab

31 August 202631 August 2026

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…

System settings window displaying About this System on Fedora Linux 44 with KDE Plasma 6.7.3, showing CPU, memory, and graphics hardware details.

Returning to the Familiar: Why I’m Back on Fedora

1 August 20261 August 2026
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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…

Linux 7.0 running on a modern desktop setup next to an old beige 1990s computer

Linux 7.0 is Out: Here is Why You Probably Don’t Need to Care (Yet)

13 April 202613 April 2026

Another month, another Linux kernel release. This time we’ve hit the big 7.0, which sounds like a massive milestone. In reality, it’s just business as usual for the people who…