schestowitz.com

Working With Fine Tools

“Teach a man how to fish…”

December 10th

Special day

Manchester City Council Report Card – Part 7 – “Customer Services” Desk That Treats Citizens Worse Than Customers

Manchester City Council ‘services’ aren’t really services, just pretence thereof or disservices

Peer, Not Manager

You won’t “own” other people

Busy Weekend for Techrights.org and TuxMachines.org

Probably lots of bots, too

Things Some People Do for Money (It’s Ugly)

Stop supporting pedophilia and high-profile paedophiles

Yes, Women Can Buy Men Flowers

Why not?

15 Years

Life is easier in pairs

Manchester City Council Report Card – Part 6 – Grotesque Misallocation of Staff or “Human Resources”

Not genuinely interested in actually providing services anymore

The Day After

I’ve got three bouquets of flowers for the Techrights anniversary

9to5Linux

Slax Linux Is Back with a Revamped Desktop, New Tools, and More

Powered by the long-term supported Linux 6.12 LTS kernel series, Slax Linux 2026.11 is based on the Debian 13 “Trixie” operating system series and features a revamped look and feel with a redesigned application launcher and new tools for everyday tasks.

9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: November 8th, 2026

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System76 Teases COSMIC Theme Constellations for Its COSMIC Desktop

After Frosted Glass, System76 is now working on another cool feature that will probably boost the adoption of the COSMIC desktop environment amongst Linux users. The feature is called COSMIC Theme Constellations and consists of bundled themes with wallpaper, accent colors, icons, and fonts.

LinuxGizmos.com

Long-range Wi-Fi HaLow gateway offers OpenWrt and dual GbE

Morse Micro’s “HaLowLink 2” gateway runs OpenWrt on a MediaTek MT7621 processor with an MM8108 Wi-Fi HaLow radio supporting ranges of up to 1km and PHY data rates of up to 43.3Mbps. Originally announced in September 2025, the gateway is now available through distributors including Seeed Studio, Mouser Electronics, and DigiKey.

Home Assistant-compatible board pairs ESP32-S3 and ESP32-P4

Crowd Supply has introduced a campaign for LocalDot, an open-hardware board developed by AAElectronics that converts third-generation Amazon Echo Dots into Home Assistant voice devices. The 83 × 37mm PCB uses an ESP32-S3 and ESP32-P4 for connectivity and audio processing while retaining the original microphones, speaker, buttons, and LEDs.

ESP32-P4 development boards combine RISC-V with Wi-Fi 6 or PoE

SparkFun today launched two ESP32-P4-based IoT RedBoards, offering either dual-band Wi-Fi 6 through an ESP32-C5 companion or wired Ethernet with Power over Ethernet. Both boards feature dual-core RISC-V processing, 32MB PSRAM, 16MB flash, MIPI camera and display connectors, and Arduino-style expansion headers for embedded and HMI applications.