Tech without the corporate bloat
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 launcher update on a rolling release. Yet, looking at where we are this August, something has definitely shifted. The July 2026 Steam Survey cleared the…
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 sitting. But for the sake of transparency, hear me out: I needed a pulse check. I want to know if my guides and rants are…
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 scrub away. For the longest time, Linux was just a tool in my bag, a server I’d ssh into or a rescue disk for a…
If you woke up on 15 July feeling a strange sense of relief, you aren’t alone. After months of posturing, rhetoric, and vaguely defined threats toward privacy tools, the UK government has officially confirmed, they will not be limiting access to Virtual Private Networks (VPNs). The headlines are, predictably, framing this as a “major victory”…
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 made the whole process feel almost suspiciously easy. It was the sort of experience that makes custom Android ROMs seem a lot less intimidating than…
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 desktop and laptop remain dedicated Linux workstations. I still use CachyOS as my daily driver on my desktop PC, which doubles as my gaming rig.…
Watching a Prime Minister resign in a flurry of headlines is a classic British distraction. While the news cycle fixates on who’s moving into Number 10, the laws they actually passed aren’t going anywhere. The “Nude Ultimatum” and the Online Safety Act were bought and paid for long before the tears started on the Downing…
I’ve spent the morning staring at the news, and I’m honestly just exhausted by it. The UK government is basically banking on us being too comfortable to move. They’re betting that because we’ve spent years building our lives on a few giant corporate platforms, we’ll just shrug and hand over our passports or a biometric…
We use the AUR for the convenience of native builds without the restrictive containers or overhead of Flatpaks and Snaps. However, that integration comes with a significant security trade-off: we’re trusting a stranger’s PKGBUILD with root access to our systems. The “Atomic Arch” campaign is a clinical reminder of why that trust needs to be…
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 your hand. They’re playing the “child safety” card because it’s the perfect shield. If you point out how technically broken this is, they just frame…