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There are lots of other distros out there that take the Debian Linux experience a step further, and here are my favorites. Most Linux distros are built on the package base belonging to one of a few titans of the Linux landscape, including Ubuntu, Fedora, Arch, and Debian. The reason there are so many distro choices out there comes down to Linux's nature: anyone can fork a Linux distro, add some tweaks and customizations, and start hawking it online. They vary in quality and reliability, but the Debian spin-offs I'm listing here today all have established communities and reputations. 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On top of that, I tell you all about the KDE Plasma desktop environment and its dependency on systemd, and Xubuntu’s new wallpaper contest. Below, you can check out this week’s hottest news and access all the distro and package downloads released this past week in the 9to5Linux roundup for February 22nd, 2026. 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The work, completed in collaboration with Bootlin, removes the need for the previously required out-of-tree DKMS driver. The UP Board family combines Intel processors with a 40-pin expansion header routed through an onboard FPGA. The FPGA handles signal level shifting, pin multiplexing, switching, and direction control, allowing pins to operate as I2C, UART, PWM, or GPIO. 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I switched because I was tired of babysitting my desktop. For years, GNOME was home. Clean layout, strong opinions, and minimal clutter. I liked that it did not try to look like Windows with a different wallpaper. I liked that it assumed I would adapt instead of offering fifty toggles. That restraint felt refreshing. Until it didn’t. As my setup grew more complex, GNOME started feeling less like a focused tool and more like something I had to work around. Two monitors became permanent, with writing on one and research on the other. Messaging apps are isolated so they would not leak into focus time. I wanted tighter control over where windows opened, how panels behaved, and how workspaces stayed separated. None of that is exotic, and GNOME did not make it easy. 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Space⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ posted by Roy Schestowitz on Feb 23, 2026 * ⚓ The Register UK ☛ Linus_Torvalds_jokingly_ponders_his_successor_as Linux_boss⠀⇛ “We haven't done releases based on features (or on "stable vs unstable") for a long, long time now. So that new major number does *not* mean that we have some big new exciting feature, or that we're somehow leaving old interfaces behind. It's the usual "solid progress" marker, nothing more.” He then reiterated his plan to end each series of kernels to end at x.19, before the next release becomes y.0 – a process that takes about 3.5 years – and then pondered what happens when the next version of Linux reaches a number he finds uncomfortable. * ⚓ Shayon Mukherjee ☛ Let's_discuss_sandbox_isolation⠀⇛ The word “isolation” gets used loosely. A Docker container is “isolated.” A microVM is “isolated.” A WebAssembly module is “isolated.” But these are fundamentally different things, with different boundaries, different attack surfaces, and different failure modes. I wanted to write down my learnings on what each layer actually provides, because I think the distinctions matter and allow you to make informed decisions for the problems you are looking to solve. * ⚓ Video Cardz ☛ Linux_7.0_merges_AMDGPU_update_for_decade_old_Radeon GPUs⠀⇛ Linux 7.0 is getting its first round of post feature fixes for graphics drivers, and a large share of them are for AMDGPU. The patch set was reported yesterday, as part of the normal DRM fix process that follows the bigger feature merges earlier in the release cycle. * § BSD⠀➾ o ⚓ Dan Langille ☛ nagios03:_drive_recovery⠀⇛ After zpool upgrade blocked by gpart: /dev/da0p1: not enough space, I’ve decided to create a new Azure VM, snapshot the now-faulty-drive, attach it to the host, and start zfs replication to copy the data to new drive. Or something like that. The existing drive needs to be imported with a checkpoint rollback, then copied to a drive with different partition sizes. Here’s the new host: [...] o ⚓ Hypha ☛ Back_to_FreeBSD:_Part_1⠀⇛ The quiet revolution happened in 2000. Not on Windows Server, and not yet on Linux — but on FreeBSD, a UNIX- based operating system that was the default choice for IT professionals long before Linux dominated the space. FreeBSD is worth a brief aside here, because it differs from Linux in a fundamental way. Linux is a kernel. What most people call "Linux" is actually that kernel combined with a GNU userland, a package ecosystem, and a set of choices that vary from distro to distro — Ubuntu, Fedora, and Arch are all running the same kernel but are meaningfully different systems underneath. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 535 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/23/Curating_the_News_a_Community_Powered_Endeavour.shtml Gemini version at gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/23/Curating_the_News_a_Community_Powered_Endeavour.gmi ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ Curating the News, a Community-Powered Endeavour⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ posted by Roy Schestowitz on Feb 23, 2026 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇the_future_is_still_old_news⦈_ Since moving to an SSG way back in 2022 we've added 41,656 new pages to the site. We are adding roughly 30 new pages/stories (or clusters of stories) per day, i.e. roughly the same as when Susan had the lead. That's over 10,000 new pages each year. 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Some European community members helped us and our owner/admin in the United States (US) helped us migrate all the files to the United Kingdom. We thanked her and we still kept in touch with Susan, the original curator and founder. She too is based in the US. We'll forever be grateful to her. We have a growing community and many people are involved. But the "homebase" is now the UK, not the US (since 2023). In hindsight, being based in the United Kingdom means that judges_are_often female_and_can_sympathise_with_female_victims. We had two Prime Ministers who were female in the past decade. We also negotiated with a female webhost staff our ongoing commitment to free speech and Freedom of the Press. These days we're highly critical of the UK's SRA because it's run_for_and_by machos. It renders the SRA a potent threat and ongoing problem for British media. Let's face is, the media is universally (globally) under attack and borders seem_not_to_matter_to_the_attacker. 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Firefox’s AI features can be disabled entirely or selectively. Firefox 148 also improves support for screen readers accessing mathematical formulas embedded in PDF documents, support for viewer local weather on the New Tab page, and a new “Suggestions from Firefox” option in Search > Address bar settings to get suggestions from the Web related to your search. 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These distros are the only way to switch⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ posted by Rianne Schestowitz on Feb 23, 2026 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇penguin_waving⦈_ Quoting: Forget Linux Mint. These distros are the only way to switch — Linux is famously flexible, almost to a fault. If you wanted to rip out entire sections of the operating system and replace it with something of your own, you could do that. That flexibility applies to nearly everything about Linux operating systems in general. If you're willing to throw sudo in front of a command, the operating system isn't going to do much to stop you. Want a new desktop environment? No problem. Accidentally run a command that will delete a huge amount of files that shouldn't be deleted? Unfortunately, that's also no problem—unless you try to delete the root directory. 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MBDyn simulates the behavior of heterogeneous mechanical, aeroservoelastic systems based on first principles equations. MBDyn can be easily coupled to external solvers for co- simulation of multiphysics problems, e.g. Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), terradynamics, block-diagram solvers like Scicos, Scicoslab and Simulink, using a simple C, C++ or Python peer-side API. This is free and open source software. * ⚓ OpenBuilds_CONTROL_-_connect_and_control_your_CNC,_Laser,_Plasma_or Dragknife_machine_-_LinuxLinks⠀⇛ OpenBuilds CONTROL is a Grbl Host / Interface for all CNC style machines running Grbl. This is free and open source software. * ⚓ cariddi_-_scanning_tool_-_LinuxLinks⠀⇛ Take a list of domains, crawl urls and scan for endpoints, secrets, api keys, file extensions, tokens and more. This is free and open source software. * ⚓ Juliaup_-_Julia_version_manager_-_LinuxLinks⠀⇛ Juliaup is a cross-platform installer for the Julia programming language. The installer also bundles a full Julia version manager called juliaup. One can use juliaup to install specific Julia versions, it alerts users when new Julia versions are released and provides a convenient Julia release channel abstraction. This is free and open source software. * ⚓ GizmoSQL_-_high-performance_SQL_server_-_LinuxLinks⠀⇛ GizmoSQL is a lightweight, high-performance SQL server built on: DuckDB or SQLite for query execution. Apache Arrow Flight SQL for fast, modern connectivity. Middleware-based auth with optional TLS & JWT. This is free and open source software. * ⚓ swaptop_-_real-time_swap_usage_monitor_-_LinuxLinks⠀⇛ swaptop is a real-time swap usage monitor for Linux and Windows systems with a TUI interface. Lists processes using swap, displays consumption per-process/ per-software, and provides live-updating graphs. This is free and open source software. * ⚓ Jump_'n_Bump_-_family_fun_-_LinuxLinks⠀⇛ At the beginning you are in the menu, where you have to let each active player jump over the tree trunk to enter the play area, and then walk to the right. You will then enter the arena. The aim is to jump on the other bunnies’ heads… Jump ‘n Bump was originally a DOS game by Brainchild Design, which was open sourced under the GPL license and ported to SDL, and then SDL2. This is free and open source software. * ⚓ qmassa_-_display_GPU_usage_stats_-_LinuxLinks⠀⇛ Most of the information is gathered through a GPU vendor and driver agnostic interface such as standard files in /proc and / sys or by using udev. For some of the stats, though, a driver- specific way is needed, and qmassa then leverages what the kernel drivers expose in their uAPI (e.g. specific query ioctls), specific sysfs files/directories or through perf PMU events. This is free and open source software. * ⚓ Grab_-_asynchronous_file_downloader_-_LinuxLinks⠀⇛ Grab is an asynchronous file downloader. It combines the simplicity of wget with the power of multi- threaded concurrency, parallel file downloads, and modern async I/O. Inspired by the efficiency of pacman. 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This is cross-platform, has a long development history, is now quite well-established and stable, and has incremental snapshots and encryption built in. It enables backing up to a variety of remote locations natively, but can also be paired with rclone backends to enable an even wider range of possibilities. It is available as a brew on macOS, but on NixOS, you can set it up as a service for automatic backups using a systemd timer. * ⚓ Bozhidar Batsov ☛ How_to_Vim:_Build_your_.vimrc_from_Scratch⠀⇛ People often think that getting started with Vim means spending hours crafting an elaborate .vimrc with dozens of plugins. In reality, modern Vim (9+) and Neovim ship with remarkably sane defaults, and you can get very far with a configuration that’s just a few lines long – or even no configuration at all. * ⚓ Simon Ser ☛ Simon_Ser:_Status_update,_February_2026⠀⇛ Hi all! Lars has contributed an implementation_independent_test_suite for the scfg configuration file format. This is quite nice for implementors, they get a base test suite for free. I’ve added support for it for libscfg, the C I’ve spent some time working on the go-proxyproto library. While adding support for PP2_SUBTYPE_SSL_CLIENT_CERT (a PROXY protocol addition to carry the TLS client certificate I’ve introduced last month), I’ve fixed large PROXY protocol headers being rejected (TLS certificates can be a few kilobytes), I’ve fixed some issues in the test suite, and I’ve improved the HTTP/2 helper. I’ve merged support for PP2_SUBTYPE_SSL_CLIENT_CERT in tlstunnel, soju and kimchi. * ⚓ Benjamin Mako Hill ☛ Benjamin_Mako_Hill:_What_makes_online_groups vulnerable_to_governance_capture?⠀⇛ Note: I have not published blog posts about my academic papers over the past few years. To ensure that my blog contains a more comprehensive record of my published papers and to surface these for folks who missed them, I will be periodically (re)publishing blog posts about some “older” published projects. This post is closely based on a_previously_published post by Zarine_Kharazian on the_Community_Data_Science_Blog. * ⚓ XDA ☛ The_FOSS_community_has_made_its_own_MinIO_fork_after_the_original went_read-only⠀⇛ MinIO has had a really rough time over the past few years. Once the number one way to set up open-source object storage, the people behind MinIO began making changes to the software that people really did not gel with. This included swapping to GNU AGPLv3 in 2021, which demanded its users share their source code if they used MinIO, coming to a head in 2025 when the developers gutted the free admin console and stopped publishing Docker images. Well, the bad news is that MinIO has finally ended development, and the official GitHub page has gone into read-only mode. The good news is that, because it still kept AGPLv3 around, it's totally legal to make a fork of it and make your own MinIO. And the even better news is that someone has already done just that. * § Web Browsers/Web Servers⠀➾ o ⚓ Scott Jehl ☛ Standard_HTML_Video_&_Audio_Lazy-loading_is Coming!⠀⇛ This feature began as an issue filed in the HTML tracker in 2024, but in the span of the last 3 months the actual work on it has ramped up! As is the nature of web standards work, this has all been happening in public and progressing fast, so I wanted to post a summary of what's happened so far and how and where the feature works today. Long story short, the feature is not yet standard, but the HTML spec proposal, platform tests, and browser patches have been in review for many weeks and support just landed behind a flag in Chrome Canary! Things are moving along in a very positive direction and you can start experimenting with it today! * § SaaS/Back End/Databases⠀➾ o ⚓ Dan Langille ☛ Upgrading_PostgreSQL_in_place_on_FreeBSD⠀⇛ I’ve updated one of my PostgreSQL instances to PostgreSQL 18, it’s time to update the others. This time, I’m going to try pg_update. My usual approach is pg_dump and pg_restore. As this is my first attempt doing this, I’m posting this mostly for future reference when I try this again. There will be another blog post when I try this again. Which should be soon. This paragraph will link to that post when it is available. In this post: [...] o ⚓ Consensus Labs LLC ☛ We_have_pgvector_at_home⠀⇛ It’s Postgres and we’re talking about vector embeddings. There’s no vector datatype in Postgres so we have to use some fancy new extension like pgvector, right? Vector similarity search is a generalization of something people have been trying to do for decades, find points nearest to each other (such as on a globe). Postgres’s point datatype is limited to two dimensions. But Postgres ships with a builtin extension called cube that allows up to 100 dimensions (this is a seemingly arbitrary hard- coded limit you could increase if you built Postgres from source). It comes with an operator for calculating Euclidean distance between points, and you can even index cube fields to potentially speed up similarity search. * § GNU Projects⠀➾ o ⚓ GNU ☛ parallel_@_Savannah:_GNU_Parallel_20260222_('Epstein files')_released_[stable]⠀⇛ GNU Parallel 20260222 ('Epstein files') has been released. It is available for download at: lbry:// @GnuParallel:4 ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 1175 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/23/Games_New_Steam_Games_with_Native_GNU_Linux_Builds_and_Interim_.shtml Gemini version at gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/23/Games_New_Steam_Games_with_Native_GNU_Linux_Builds_and_Interim_.gmi ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ Games: New Steam Games with Native GNU/ Linux Builds and "Interim Computer Museum"⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ posted by Roy Schestowitz on Feb 23, 2026 * ⚓ Boiling Steam ☛ New_Steam_Games_with_Native_GNU/Linux_Builds,_including Log_Riders_-_2026-02-18_Edition⠀⇛ Between 2026-02-11 and 2026-02-18 there were 71 New Steam games released with Native GNU/Linux builds. For reference, during the same time, there were 625 games released for backdoored Windows on Steam, so the GNU/Linux versions represent about 11.4 % of total released titles. In this past week the highlight is clearly Log Riders which is an hilarious co-op game where two characters ride on a log and have to avoid traps, obstacles, and pitfalls. * ⚓ Tom's Hardware ☛ You_can_log_into_28_vintage_computer_systems_in_your browser_for_free,_thanks_to_the_Interim_Computer_Museum_—_Experience legendary_OSes,_architectures,_programming_languages,_and_games⠀⇛ Experience legendary OSes, architectures, programming languages, and games via a new online portal. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 1215 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/23/GNU_Linux_and_BSD_Leftoevrs.shtml Gemini version at gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/23/GNU_Linux_and_BSD_Leftoevrs.gmi ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ GNU/Linux and BSD Leftovers⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ posted by Roy Schestowitz on Feb 23, 2026 * § Desktop/Laptop⠀➾ o ⚓ HowTo Geek ☛ 3_reasons_I_still_can’t_switch_to_Linux:_Where Windows_still_wins⠀⇛ Linux is famous for being customizable, flexible, and resource-friendly. Unfortunately, despite gains in recent years, there are some areas where it still can't beat Windows. * § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾ o ⚓ Jupiter Broadcasting ☛ Speeding_Up_Mistakes_|_LINUX_Unplugged 655⠀⇛ Planet Nix and SCaLE are just days away, and we're getting a head start with two guests, the tech, and the trends shaping open source. Our trip starts here! * § Desktop Environments (DE)/Window Managers (WM)⠀➾ o § K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt⠀➾ # ⚓ Parallelizing_a_Game_Hey_Hi_(AI)_Engine:_Root-Level Optimization⠀⇛ As part of my Season of KDE work on the Mankala game engine, I am trying to impleemnt root level parallelization to speed up the AI's move evaluation. Here's how I achieved about 2x speedup. * § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾ o ⚓ Distro Watch ☛ DistroWatch.com:_Put_the_fun_back_into_computing. Use_Linux,_BSD.⠀⇛ [...] We also report on GhostBSD experimenting with an alternative X11 implementation while Asahi Linux reports on the team's progress to support newer Apple ARM-powered computers. We also share news the NetBSD command line tools have been ported to other members of the Unix family. [...] ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 1291 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/23/GNU_Octave_11_Open_Source_Scientific_Programming_Language_Offic.shtml Gemini version at gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/23/GNU_Octave_11_Open_Source_Scientific_Programming_Language_Offic.gmi ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ GNU Octave 11 Open-Source Scientific Programming Language Officially Released⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ posted by Marius Nestor on Feb 23, 2026 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇GNU_Octave_11⦈_ Highlights of GNU Octave 11 include a new search command for packages, an updated Java internal interface to be more memory-efficient, a completely revamped randi function, support for the roots function to accept only double or single input types, and a more accurate fzero function (1-2 eps when TolX is eps). This release also introduces an _Exit function makes it possible to use a fork/ _Exit sequence to perform work in parallel child processes for potential performance gains, and an updated sum function that fully supports increased precision through the "extra" optional argument, which is also available for sparse arrays. 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The fan was constantly speeding up after booting, but CPU usage still hovered between 8 and 12%. I recorded temperatures reaching 65°C, which is hot but not dangerously high. I tried cleaning the vents, and I also replaced the thermal paste. But things were not adding up. It felt more like the system was overreacting than overheating. It took a lot of prying into Ubuntu's power management stack for me to realize I wasn't facing a cooling problem. This was a coordination problem, and I needed to fix it to control my laptop fan. 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Usually you install a browser, set your terminal font, run an update, and get on with real work. Over the years, though, I have noticed that my environment only feels usable when a handful of command line tools are present. These tools dramatically reduce friction and make daily tasks more efficient and reliable. This is not a list of flashy utilities that you install once and forget three days later. These are the tools that remain on every system I use for more than ten minutes. They help me navigate the filesystem, monitor system performance, remove files safely, or download large data without the usual headaches. 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Our project maintainer Jehan wanted to interview the volunteers who make GIMP what it is, and share their stories so you can learn more about the awesome people behind GIMP! Early interviews with co-maintainer Michael Natterer and Michael Schumacher were published shortly after the first Wilber Week. Unfortunately, the rest of the interviews from that event have never seen the light of day - until now! Our previously resurfaced interview was with Simon Budig. The interview in this article is about Øyvind Kolås. He is the maintainer of GEGL and babl, the color engines of GIMP. His work was instrumental in (among many other things) the long-waited non- destructive filters implemented in GIMP 3.0! 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The focus has been on addressing crashes, improving the user interface, and fixing data handling issues. The source code is available on various mirrors world-wide. Read_on ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 1582 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/23/Looking_for_the_best_Linux_window_manager_Here_s_how_I_rank_the.shtml Gemini version at gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/23/Looking_for_the_best_Linux_window_manager_Here_s_how_I_rank_the.gmi ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ Looking for the best Linux window manager? Here’s how I rank them⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ posted by Rianne Schestowitz on Feb 23, 2026 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Floating_window_manager⦈_ Quoting: How I rank Linux window managers — On the surface, most Linux window managers look deceptively similar. It’s only once you start using them that you realize how differently they handle your workflow. Here’s a quick breakdown of how Linux window managers differ—and which ones I rank above the rest. There are three main things I look for in a Linux window manager (WM): how it handles window layouts, how its configuration system works, and whether it runs on Wayland or X11. Here’s a more detailed breakdown of how these factors influence your overall workflow. 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Designed for space-constrained applications, it targets light machine vision, inspection, monitoring, and low-speed autonomous systems. The octa-core Qualcomm Kryo 670 (Cortex- A78/A55-class) processor is paired with 8GB LPDDR4x memory and 128GB UFS flash storage. The fanless system features 10GbE and Gigabit Ethernet ports, five USB ports, and HDMI and USB-C (DisplayPort) video output. * ⚓ Tom's Hardware ☛ Colorado_law_could_force_surveillance_for_3D_printers to_prevent_use_for_making_gun_parts_—_fourth_state_to_propose_new_bans_is expanding_firearms_laws_to_regulate_digital_files⠀⇛ Colorado is joining the growing list of states attempting to crack down on the manufacture of 3D printed “ghost guns,” joining New York, Washington, and California on a quest to expand firearms laws to regulate digital files and potentially ban 3D printers that are not under its surveillance. * ⚓ Futurism ☛ The_Economics_of_3D_Printed_Homes_Are_Surprisingly Horrible⠀⇛ That's a lot of dough. * ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Exclamation_Point_Indicates_Worthy_Notifications⠀⇛ The key to this build is the large bi-color printed housing in the shape of an exclamation mark. It makes for an attractive wall-hanging, but it also perfectly serves the purpose [Conrad] had in mind. Inside the enclosure is an ESP32, hooked up to a string of 16×8 LED matrixes which are commanded over I2C. These sit behind a white panel in the enclosure to nicely diffuse the light and make their output more readable. The ESP32 displays notifications on the LEDs that are fed from Home Assistant, such as when the mailbox sensor is triggered or if a vehicle is detected in the driveway. There’s also a bell on the unit to provide audible notifications, which us dinged with a solenoid fired via a 2N2222 transistor switching a 12-volt supply from a boost converter. * ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Meshtastic_Does_More_Than_Simple_Communication⠀⇛ This isn’t a project to bring broadband Internet out to the shed, though; Meshtastic is much too slow for that. All he really wanted to do here was to implement a basic alarm system that would let him know if someone had broken in. The actual alarm triggering mechanism is an LED emitter-detector pair installed in two bars, one of which sends a 12V signal out if the infrared beam from the other is broken. They’re connected to a Heltec ESP32 LoRa module which is set up to publish messages out on the Meshtastic communications channel. A second module is connected to the WiFi at the house which is communicates with his Home Assistant server. * ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Inside_A_Compact_Intel_3000_W_Water-Cooled_Power_Supply⠀⇛ Recently [ElecrArc240] got his paws on an Intel-branded 3 kW power supply that apparently had been designed as a reference PSU for servers. At 3 kW in such a compact package air cooling would be rather challenging, so it has a big water block sandwiched between the two beefy PCBs. In the full teardown and analysis video of the PSU we can see the many design decisions made to optimize efficiency and minimize losses to hit its 80 Plus Platinum rating. * ⚓ Facundo Olano ☛ My_retrogaming_handheld_|_olano.dev⠀⇛ 1. I recently came across this magazine article and learned a few interesting things: There are now cheap Chinese portable consoles that can be run as emulation stations like the one I had in my raspberry pi. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 1751 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/23/Programming_Leftovers.shtml Gemini version at gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/23/Programming_Leftovers.gmi ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ Programming Leftovers⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ posted by Roy Schestowitz on Feb 23, 2026 * ⚓ Den Odell ☛ Constraints_and_the_Lost_Art_of_Optimization⠀⇛ In 1984, Steve Jobs walked over to a bag standing on stage and pulled out a computer that would change the world. The Macintosh had an operating system, a graphical user interface, window manager, font renderer, and a complete graphics engine called QuickDraw, one of the most elegant pieces of software ever written. The whole thing fit inside the machine’s 64KB ROM. Sixty. Four. Kilobytes. * ⚓ Connor Tumbleson ☛ Apktool_v3.0.0_Released⠀⇛ So knowing Igor had been giving pull requests to Apktool for years it was an easy ask to grant him access to the repository with a maintainer role. So Igor helped majorly in designing and stabilizing Apktool v3 as well as reviewing support issues and feedback. As I hacked it to pieces over the past decade fixing crashes here and there it was great to have someone review the code as a whole and iterate with a design in their mind. * ⚓ Andrew Nesbitt ☛ Forge-Specific_Repository_Folders⠀⇛ Git doesn’t know about CI, code review, or issue templates, but every forge that hosts git repositories has added these features through the same trick: a dot-folder in your repo root that the forge reads on push. The folder names differ, the contents overlap in some places and diverge in others, and the portability story between them is worse than you’d expect. A companion to my earlier post on git’s magic files. * ⚓ Alex Chan ☛ The_bare_minimum_for_syncing_Git_repos⠀⇛ I have some personal Git repos that I want to sync between my devices – my dotfiles, text expansion macros, terminal colour schemes, and so on. For a long time, I used GitHub as my sync layer – it’s free, convenient, and I was already using it – but recently I’ve been looking at alternatives. I’m trying to reduce my dependency on cloud services, especially those based in the USA, and I don’t need most of GitHub’s features. I made these repos public, in case somebody else might find them useful, but in practice I think very few people ever looked at them. There are plenty of GitHub-lookalikes, which are variously self-hosted or hosted outside the USA, like GitLab, Gitea, or Codeberg – but like GitHub, they all have more features than I need. I just care about keeping my files in sync. Maybe I could avoid introducing another service? As I thought about how Git works, I thought of a much simpler way – and I’m almost embarrassed by how long it took me to figure this out. * ⚓ Lelanthran Manickum ☛ Parse,_Don’t_Validate_AKA_Some_C_Safety_Tips⠀⇛ By leveraging the typing guarantees we eliminate entire classes of bugs while making the code more robust and maintainable. Instead of just checking values for correctness, we parse it once and then the compiler enforces some typing guarantees for us. * ⚓ [Old] Thassilo Schulze ☛ Fixing_C_Strings⠀⇛ It’s well-known that null-terminated C strings are bug-prone and unsafe to use. They’re the stereotypical footgun. I’ve been tinkering in a bare-metal environment recently, writing all code myself, including the common types and routines you find in libc or similar. In all the code I wrote, there is not at single null-terminated string, and I have yet to encounter a bug related to bounds checking on strings or buffers. This is a quick rundown of what I’m doing and how it holds up. * ⚓ Junichi_Uekawa:_Hey_Hi_(AI)_generated_code_and_its_quality.⠀⇛ Hey Hi (AI) generated code and its quality. It's hard to get larger tasks done and smaller tasks I am faster myself. I suspect this will change soon, but as of today things are challenging. Large chunks of code that's generated by Hey Hi (AI) is hard to review and generally of not great quality. Possibly two layers that cause quality issues. One is that the instructions aren't clear for the AI, and the misunderstanding shows; I could sometimes reverse engineer the misunderstanding, and that could be resolved in the future. The other is that probably what the Hey Hi (AI) have learnt from is from a corpus that is not fit for the purpose. Which I suspect can be improved in the future with methodology and improvements in how they obtain the corpus, or redirect the learnings, or how it distills the learnings. I'm noting down what I think today, as the world is changing rapidly, and I am bound to see a very different scene soon. * § Python⠀➾ o ⚓ [Old] LWN ☛ A_"frozen"_dictionary_for_Python⠀⇛ The idea is fairly straightforward: add frozendict as a new immutable type to the language's builtins module. As Stinner put it: [...] * § Shell/Bash/Zsh/Ksh⠀➾ o ⚓ [Old] Greg Wooledge ☛ BashFAQ/105_-_Greg's_Wiki⠀⇛ Or, "so you think set -e is OK, huh?" * § Java/Golang⠀➾ o ⚓ OMG Ubuntu ☛ Ubuntu_26.04_LTS_will_default_to_OpenJDK_25⠀⇛ Ubuntu 26.04 LTS ‘Resolute Raccoon’ will use OpenJDK 25 as its default Java version. An expected change as OpenJDK 25 is a long-term support release, as Ubuntu 26.04 is, the bump brings various feature and performance improvements to developers over OpenJDK 21, the default version used in Ubuntu 24.04 LTS through 25.10. On Ubuntu, Java isn’t installed out of the box, but when you install default-jdk or default-jre (directly or indirectly as a dependency needed by other software) those meta-packages point to whichever OpenJDK version Canonical has blessed as current. In Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, that will be OpenJDK 25. o ⚓ Nicolas Fränkel ☛ JVM_timing_options⠀⇛ For as long as I have been coding in Java, we have had requirements to measure the execution time of blocks of code. While the current good practice is to use OpenTelemetry’s traces, not every company has reached this stage yet. Plus, some of the alternatives are OpenTelemetry-compatible. Let’s see them in order. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 1935 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/23/Review_The_Guix_package_manager_1_5_0.shtml Gemini version at gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/23/Review_The_Guix_package_manager_1_5_0.gmi ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ Review: The Guix package manager 1.5.0⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ posted by Rianne Schestowitz on Feb 23, 2026 Quoting: DistroWatch.com: Put the fun back into computing. Use Linux, BSD. — The thought which kept coming to me while I was experimenting with Guix this week was that Guix feels like an advanced package manager created by package maintainers for package maintainers. Being able to instantly swap between packages, install from binary or source, track the changes between package generations, and manage software in a local profile without touching the rest of the operating system are all features which feel ideal for a package maintainer. (Speaking as someone who has maintained packages across multiple platforms.) However, Guix feels quite awkward for any other role outside of helping a package maintainer. The concept and syntax are overly complicated for beginners and average computer users; Guix is definitely a more advanced tool without any friendly graphical interface. It doesn't feel like it is geared toward system administrators because it is putting the power, the packages, and the clean-up in the hands of individual users rather than centralizing the processes. It doesn't feel like it is targeting developers since the non-standard filesystem locations and lack of isolation features are not suited to development and deployment the way containers are. Which brings me back to the idea that Guix is a really impressive package management system if you are really into maintaining multiple packages and want to make managing your packages as powerful and flexible as possible. And this seems like a really capable tool if that is what you need. On the other hand, if you're not maintaining multiple packages, Guix is probably more complex and more hands-on for the user than what you need. Read_on ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 1990 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/23/Science_is_the_Root_of_Free_Software.shtml Gemini version at gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/23/Science_is_the_Root_of_Free_Software.gmi ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ Science is the Root of Free Software⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ posted by Roy Schestowitz on Feb 23, 2026 Crossposted_from_Techrights 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Cross_section_of_Newton_Cenotaph⦈_ The teachings of Abrahamic religions paint themselves with a 'nice-sounding' brush such as caring, sharing, and solidarity. They also, however, encourage all_sorts_of_intolerance_against_those_who_reject_"God" (with terms such as torment, sin, and heretic). Religion is not the subject of this article. The article deals with a demonising misframing of Software Freedom, which sometimes devolves into atheism-bashing or even_antisemitism. Software Freedom is not grounded and was never grounded in religious ideas. It's more to do with science, peer review, and sharing of knowledge. Religions tend to obstruct scrutiny (even pedophilia gets covered up in the "major" religions). Software Freedom was rooted in a culture once known as "hacker culture", either at MIT or institutions that it collaborated with not only for Computer Science research but for many scientific endeavours which required a computer (for efficient, precise, large-scale computation). Be highly sceptical of people who resort to analogies like these, e.g. comparing Software Freedom to a "religion". Many of the most ardent proponents of Software Freedom are non-religious and generally reject superstition. It's hardly surprising that some of the loudest opponents of Software Freedom and its luminaries also disregard or bend facts. 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Linux-libre_turned_18 recently, and I'm told there are still some people who try to pass as security experts who disapprove of the refusal to load binary blobs that claim to fix security problems. I kind of understand the appeal of security bug fixes, but delivering them in the form of binary blobs mean that the one who accepts them has to trust them blindly and to give up any pretense of security from the vendor, and that seems to be a problem that many pretense security conscious minds seem to disregard, for whatever reason. At the same time they advise people to not open messages from untrusted senders, and to not install random programs even when they claim to offer security improvements. They even criticize people who fall in such traps, while pushing others to do just that! Sure, in one case it's possibly an evil anonymous attacker, while in the other it's a well-known active corporation in the enshittocene, thus also evil. Thanks, but no, thanks, I'll take neither. What these people don't seem to want to understand is that there is a significant risk in granting the vendor (just like to anyone else) a new round of control over your computer, especially over a component that can access pretty much everything you do. The risk is not only for your freedom, but also for your security. When there is a known, exploitable vulnerability in your computer, plugging that hole with a blob may seem like a lesser risk than leaving it unpatched, even if the blob brings with it unknowns (other security holes), risks (new backdoors, new forms of remote control), limitations (new license restrictions, "improvements" that stop you from doing things on your computer that the vendor doesn't want you to do any more), and known downsides (slowing down your computer). If they allowed you to inspect the changes, to choose which ones you want and which ones you don't, to make further improvements yourself, to plug holes independently from them, then the conclusion could be very different. But they don't, because they don't respect your freedom. This means they don't want you to have defenses against their control. They might even care about your security against others, but clearly not about your security against themselves. If you have already mitigated the risks from the known holes that the blob purports to plug, then the only effects of the blob on you are negative: exposing you to unknowns, to risks, to limitations, and to its known downsides. It's a net negative, even security wise. I suppose the miscreants can't picture someone who mitigates the potential security_problems_brought_about_by_CPU_bugs by not allowing random programs from random third parties to be installed and run on their computers, not even through web browsers, and by only installing programs known to serve their users and from trusted sources. Some of us even audit changes ourselves! For them, it's probably easier to tick a box and then go about recklessly running nonfree (because they run under control of the remote server) programs on their browsers, or installing and running other pieces of software remotely controlled by third parties, whose behaviors they wish to contain somehow. But for someone who cares about freedom to the point of meticulously selecting hardware that will run with only free software, allowing such nonfree web blobs to run is undesirable to begin with. Installing nonfree programs that don't permit auditing is also out of the question. These choices are for freedom purposes, but they are also a form of security in depth that miscreants seem unable to conceive of. That these freedom defenses also mitigate security issues is a welcome bonus. That misguided security and freedom miscreants egg their own faces by promoting security-risking and freedom-denying blobs, because they can't see that newer blobs bring newer problems, is just priceless. So blong, █ =============================================================================== Copyright 2007-2026 Alexandre Oliva Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this entire document worldwide without royalty, provided the copyright notice, the document's official URL, and this permission notice are preserved. 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Instead of Windows (or Mac) vs. Linux, the reality is WindowsandLinux. Why both Windows and Linux? It's due to one of Linux's strengths: its ability to interoperate with other systems (largely thanks to an early design decision of Linus Torvalds so he could play an MS-DOS game). Linux uses the same TCP/IP protocols as Windows machines and can read many of the same file formats, despite Microsoft's best efforts. With the ability to exchange files and data between Windows and Linux machines, people can use Windows machines where they make sense and use Linux when its strengths are more apparent. You can even use Linux on top of Windows with Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). And despite both systems looking superficially similar with modern desktop environments, there are still plenty of use cases that might favor one over the other. In Linux's case, that would be more technical workflows, such as development or server use. 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I've had my fair share of it, where I was always expecting the next setup to click. In reality, the problem is not the distros, but the constant decision-making. There is real confusion about which terminal, runtime manager, font, or theme to choose. In the end, I start from scratch and hurt my productivity. This changed when I used Omakub on a fresh Ubuntu 24.04 LTS install. It solves the hopping problem in a way different from Distrobox, which allows me to run different distros at once. Omakub gave me a fully configured developer workstation with a single command. Rather than endless tinkering, it allowed me to focus on real work. 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⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⡄⠀⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⠀⠀⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤ ⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠀⠹⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠃⠀⠸⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿ ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 2388 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/23/Tiny_Core_v17_0.shtml Gemini version at gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/23/Tiny_Core_v17_0.gmi ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ Tiny Core v17.0⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ posted by Roy Schestowitz on Feb 23, 2026 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Tiny_Core⦈_ Team Tiny Core is proud to announce the release of Core v17.0 http://www.tinycorelinux.net/17.x/x86/release http://www.tinycorelinux.net/17.x/x86_64/release Changelog for 17.0: * kernel updated to 6.18.2 * glibc updated to 2.42 * gcc updated to 15.2.0 * binutils updated to 2.45.1 * e2fsprogs base libs/apps updated to 1.47.3 * util-linux base libs/apps updated to 2.41.2 * provides.sh: Update scripts to work with https mirrors from mbartlett21 * tce-update: Undo changes around fetchzsync from mbartlett21 * tc-functions: Update https checking from mbartlett21 * tc-functions: Change subshell from mbartlett21 * update-everything: Add /usr/local/bin to PATH from mbartlett21 * shutdown.sh: handle empty lines in /opt/.xfiletool.lst from mbartlett21 * 50-udev-default.rules: expanded input device permissions from bdantas Read_on ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣠⣴⣶⣿⡏⣿⣿⣿⣷⣶⣦⣄⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣴⣿⣿⠟⢿⣦⡁⢹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣾⣷⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣴⡿⣿⣿⡉⢿⣦⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣾⣿⢿⣧⣍⣻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⢀⣶⣶⣶⣶⡆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣸⣿⣤⣌⣛⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡆⣰⣶⣶⣶⣶⡆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣴⣶⣶⣶⡆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣶⣶⣶⣶⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⢿⡇⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ 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Techrights⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ posted by Roy Schestowitz on Feb 23, 2026 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇The_Idol_of_Monopoly⦈_ ⚓ Updated This Past Day⠀⇛ 1. ⚓ IBM_Layoffs_Definitely_Still_Happening⠀⇛ Contrary to what some apologists try to say 2. ⚓ Don't_Use_the_Future_Tense_to_Discuss_the_Slop_Bubble⠀⇛ Wall Street does not react to reality; it reacts to panic, which is related to expectations 3. ⚓ The_Broken_Window_Industry_and_Its_Ongoing_Desires_to_Make_Technology Less_Dependable⠀⇛ Reliable computing is becoming harder to find 4. ⚓ New_XBox_CEO_Typecast_in_Social_Control_Media⠀⇛ Microsoft apologists will fall back on (or shuffle between) the "racist" and "sexist" angle 5. ⚓ Sites_Without_JavaScript_Deserve_Your_Visits⠀⇛ We're not arguing that the Web should be as simple or barebones like Gemini Protocol/GemText 6. ⚓ EPO_Strikes_Are_Already_Working⠀⇛ Campinos is already going "into hiding" ⚓ New⠀⇛ 7. ⚓ More_and_More_Projects_Quit_Microsoft_GitHub_This_Year,_XBox_Will_See the_Same⠀⇛ Microsoft GitHub's embrace of slop as "strategic" gives us a clue of what'll happen to XBox very soon 8. ⚓ Google_"Intelligence":_Despite_Slam-Dunk_or_"Smoking_Gun"_Proof,_Drug Abuse_in_EPO_Leadership_is_"Unverified_Allegations"⠀⇛ Google's slop (so-called 'AI') lacks intelligence 9. ⚓ 8,000_Pages/Articles_Per_Year⠀⇛ We're eager to maintain a good production/publication pace and illuminate the sinister attempts to interfere with Freedom of the Press in the UK 10. ⚓ Gemini_Links_22/02/2026:_Okonomiyaki_and_Midcrunch_Crisis⠀⇛ Links for the day 11. ⚓ Freedom_Means_Accepting_He_or_She_Who_is_Different⠀⇛ In the Debian community we're sadly seeing some authoritarian overreach this month 12. ⚓ Microsoft_Windows_Falls_to_Another_New_All-Time_Low_in_Guatemala,_It_is a_Bottomless_Pit⠀⇛ Maybe users come to realise that Windows means back doors and those doors are open to a regime that ought not be trusted 13. ⚓ "XBox"_Will_Become_Slop_After_Mass_Layoffs⠀⇛ When all else fails, "AI it" 14. ⚓ Links_22/02/2026:_Hardware_Price_Hikes_Across_the_Board,_"Microsoft Issues_Statement_on_Potential_Layoffs"⠀⇛ Links for the day 15. ⚓ Microsoft_"Layoffs_Incoming"⠀⇛ This transition isn't about promoting games; it's about canning the console 16. ⚓ Links_22/02/2026:_"Bloat_of_Modern_Fitness_Apps"_and_Wikipedia Deprecates_Archive.today⠀⇛ Links for the day 17. ⚓ Our_IRC_5-Year_Anniversary_(for_Self-Hosted)_is_Fast_Approaching⠀⇛ A week from now it's March already 18. ⚓ Gemini_Links_22/02/2026:_Dream_Job_Gone_and_Slop_in_Taskwarrior⠀⇛ Links for the day 19. ⚓ Over_at_Tux_Machines...⠀⇛ GNU/Linux news for the past day 20. ⚓ IRC_Proceedings:_Saturday,_February_21,_2026⠀⇛ IRC logs for Saturday, February 21, 2026 ========================================================================= The corresponding text-only bulletin for Sunday contains all the text. 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█▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ today's howtos⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ posted by Roy Schestowitz on Feb 23, 2026 * ⚓ Installation_of_NVIDIA_drivers_on_openSUSE_and_SLE_(G07)⠀⇛ § Important⠀➾ This blogpost explains how to install new G07 NVIDIA drivers. It is temporarily available as long as the content of the current blogpost for installation of G06 NVIDIA drivers is still needed. The availability of G07 NVIDIA driver packages will happen soon. 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