Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Dec 26, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. Gemini Links 25/12/2025: Hibernation and TV Detox

   Links for the day

2. The Right to Repair (Especially When Products Are So Poorly Made)

   Many electrical appliances fail often/quick and are nearly impossible to repair

3. The Register MS: Don't Use Linux

   That really says a lot about The Register MS

4. The Year of the Bubble

   We hope that in 2026 the marketing liars will find some new buzzwords to latch onto and quit calling everything "AI"

   New

5. Canonical is Making the Cost of PCs Very High, Due to Unnecessary Ubuntu Bloat

   They say the reason for the price surge is LLM hype/frenzy

6. Canonical's Ubuntu is Bloatware

   How did Ubuntu get so fat?

7. The EPO is a Very Vicious Organisation You Neither Wish to Join Nor Stay in for "Too Long"

   Consider what the EPO thinks of its own workers, the staff that actually does real work

8. 2026 Will Hopefully Turn Out to be Slopless

   we seem to be starting the post-Christmas period on the right footing

9. Links 25/12/2025: Mail Carriers in "a Murky Future", Dihydroxyacetone Man’s "Chip Embargo Against China Backfiring Spectacularly"

   Links for the day

10. The Register MS: All I Want For Xmas is Microsoft

    they actually put effort into it

11. How to Win Nobel Prize for Peace

    Do you get to Heaven (or peace platitudes) by sleeping with 72 virgins?

12. Links 25/12/2025: Ample Cover-up Found in Jeffrey Epstein Files; ChatGPT Causes Psychosis, Not a Good Use Case

    Links for the day

13. Giving Money to Free Software

    In life, people must make sacrifices to do what's right and just

14. EPO People Power - Part XV - EPO Cocainegate to Resume This Weekend

    The next installment (number 16) will probably come out this weekend

15. Microsoft: XBox is Going "Online", "Cloud"...

    XBox as a console is pretty much dead

16. Mozilla Firefox is a GAFAM Browser With Slop, Move to a Free Software Web Browser

    on mobile the options would be more limited

17. libera.chat Was Under Attack Last Night

    Several months from now libera.chat turns 5

18. Free Software Foundation (FSF) Raises Over $300,000 Before Christmas

    the FSF made it past $300,000

19. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

20. IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, December 24, 2025

    IRC logs for Wednesday, December 24, 2025

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