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KDE Plasma 6.7 Is Shaping Up To Be Amazing

Wed, 15 Apr 2026 17:30:07 GMT

After 21 years virtual desktops finally work properly on KDE Plasma as of version 6.7 but the world wasn't done by an existing KDE developer, instead by someone new who wanted to take on a challenge, this with all the other big changes coming and Plasma 6.7 looks amazing.

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Old Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmdqMFGnJlc
Bug Report: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=107302
Past Report: https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kdeplasma-addons/-/merge_requests/910
Old This Week In KDE: https://blogs.kde.org/2025/11/08/this-week-in-plasma-virtual-desktops-only-on-the-primary-screen/
New Merge Request: https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kwin/-/merge_requests/8602

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Valve Changes Everything For Low VRAM GPUs On Linux

Tue, 14 Apr 2026 17:30:01 GMT

Valve is once again showing why I love them and one of there developers is working on some patches to have your GPU more effectively assign VRAM to the games that should be the priority, for now only on KDE and very new kernels.

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Console Hackers Put Linux On Everything

Mon, 13 Apr 2026 17:30:00 GMT

A game console is basically just computer with a custom OS and a locked bootloader so you shouldn't be surprised at all that there is a world of people who try to install Linux on them.

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The Linux Kernel Eliminated This Entire C Function

Sun, 12 Apr 2026 17:30:28 GMT

You wouldn't often think that an entire C function would need to be eliminated from the kernel but recently exactly that was done.

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Mastodon Post: https://hachyderm.io/@kees/116282745861595200
2020 Work: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/90
Recent Merge: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux.git/commit/?h=dev/v7.0-rc2/strncpy&id=be568570cf71c5db5d6039ac077d90e3767c2fe1
Strncpy: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1258550/why-should-you-use-strncpy-instead-of-strcpy
Older Post: https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2013/04/03/stop-using-strncpy-already/

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"Copilot Is For Entertainment Purposes Only"

Sat, 11 Apr 2026 17:30:29 GMT

Have you ever actually read the TOS for any of the AI tools you use, well probably not but there's some fun little excerpts that you can find

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Copilot TOS: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-copilot/for-individuals/termsofuse
Article: https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/innovation/ai-chatgpt-court-law-legal-lawyer-self-represent-pro-se-attorney-rcna230401
Anthropic TOS: https://www.anthropic.com/legal/consumer-terms
Diffchecker: https://www.diffchecker.com/BtqVrR9p/
Azure OpenAI: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/foundry/responsible-ai/openai/transparency-note

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The Linux Open Source Document Editors Are Fighting

Thu, 09 Apr 2026 17:30:05 GMT

I never expected to see drama in the FOSS document editor space, but out of nowhere 2 things are happening around the same time, NextCloud with there new EuroOffice vs OnlyOffice and The Document Foundation with LibreOffice vs Collabora with the Collabora Productivity.

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NextCloud Post: https://nextcloud.com/blog/press_releases/industry-initiative-launches-euro-office-as-true-sovereign-office-suite/
EuroOffice: https://github.com/Euro-Office
OnlyOffice Response: https://www.onlyoffice.com/blog/2026/03/onlyoffice-flags-license-violations-in-euro-office-project-by-nextcloud-and-ionos
The Document Foundation Vote: https://community.documentfoundation.org/t/vote-revoke-votes-related-to-libreoffice-online-atticiziation-and-freezing-of-repository/13495
Collabora Post: https://www.collaboraonline.com/blog/tdf-ejects-its-core-developers/
The Document Foundation Follow Up: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/04/05/lets-put-an-end-to-the-speculation/

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This One Annoying Linux Problem Is Finally Ending

Wed, 08 Apr 2026 17:30:01 GMT

There's one really annoying problem on Linux and that is the annoying wallet and keyring prompts that we see on Linux like Kwallet and gnome-keyring and to my surprise there is some work going on through something called secretservice to make these vastly less annoying.

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Reddit Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/1s8osw2/how_do_i_disable_this_kde_wallet_popup/
Blog 1: https://notmart.org/blog/2025/04/towards-a-transition-from-kwallet-to-secret-service/
Blog 2: https://notmart.org/blog/2025/07/kwallet-to-secretservice-a-client-application-name-wanted/
Blog 3: https://notmart.org/blog/2026/01/kwallet-secretservice-oo7-the-story-so-far/

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Linux Desktop Is Taking Over The World

Tue, 07 Apr 2026 17:30:06 GMT

Recently people made a big deal about Linux hitting 5% market share in the steam hardware survey, but what's the truth here, is it really 5% or just a weird outlier month.

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Computer Literacy Is Completely Dead

Mon, 06 Apr 2026 17:30:14 GMT

Everyone kinda just assumed that over the years people would naturally develop the ability to use a computer, but what turns out to be the case is that basically no one knows how to use a computer anymore

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WE: https://www.weforum.org/stories/2017/02/a-quarter-of-adults-can-t-use-a-computer/
EU: https://education.ec.europa.eu/news/lagging-digital-literacy-among-14-year-olds-across-the-eu-study-finds
Australia: https://www.acara.edu.au/docs/default-source/media-releases/media-release-latest-data-reveals-digital-skills-amongst-young-australians.pdf

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Session Restore Finally Exists On Wayland

Sun, 05 Apr 2026 17:30:00 GMT

For a long time session restoration on Wayland was a bit of a pipe dream but that has since changed and the protocol to get to this point was a strange situation.

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The Ubuntu Linux Grub Situation Is Hilarious

Sat, 04 Apr 2026 17:30:10 GMT

Most Linux users still still a bootloader on Linux and grub is one of the most popular choices including on Ubuntu Linux but they decided to make some bizarre changes to there build of it

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Time To Celebrate Open Source Software Freedom

Thu, 02 Apr 2026 16:30:01 GMT

Check out the podcast channel: @TechOverTea

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I Hope I'm Wrong About RAM Prices & AI Bubble

Wed, 01 Apr 2026 16:30:09 GMT

I really hope I'm wrong about the AI bubble and RAM prices, I hope that this is the end and this is the bubble bursting but I don't want to get my hopes up just because OpenAI shut down Sora and Micron stock is dropping

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End Of Sora: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/24/openai-ai-video-sora
Disney Deal: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5ydp1gdqwqo
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Google Announcement: https://x.com/GoogleResearch/status/2036533564158910740

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how to install a linux in 2026

Tue, 31 Mar 2026 16:30:00 GMT

today I'm going to show you how to install a linux ubuntu in 2026

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A Unique Idea To Solve The AI Slop Code Problem

Mon, 30 Mar 2026 16:30:08 GMT

We're entering a world of AI slop taking over every open source project and recently there's been some interesting attempts at trying to solve that problem

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Linux Desktops Matter

Sun, 29 Mar 2026 16:30:03 GMT

People always talk about which Linux distro a new Linux user should use but I think the conversation should be changed, I think desktops matter far more than any distro

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This Wayland Compositor Changes How We Build Window Managers

Sat, 28 Mar 2026 16:30:10 GMT

You've probably heard that building a Wayland compositor is a lot of work compared to building an X11 Window Manager, but what if there was a way to make things considerably easier. Well River is doing exactly that to Wayland

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Valve Is Making Some Big Changes To Steam On Linux

Thu, 26 Mar 2026 16:30:01 GMT

Valve is making 2 big changes on Linux finally, firstly SteamOS is going Wayland by default and also finally the Linux Steam client on Linux is going 64 bit.

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Steam Change: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1675200/view/532126482488623649
Gaming On Linux Article: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/03/new-steam-beta-can-run-the-linux-client-inside-a-container-with-64bit/
Steam Flatpak: https://flathub.org/en/apps/com.valvesoftware.Steam
Windows Announcement: https://steamcommunity.com/games/593110/announcements/detail/528740542771627405
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Debian Linux Elections Fascinate Me

Wed, 25 Mar 2026 16:30:06 GMT

The Debian Linux project leader elections absolutely fascinate me, not one, not twice, not even 3 times there have been elections for Debian with only a single person involved and no one seems to care.

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I Spoke To The Dev Behind The Systemd Birth Date Change

Tue, 24 Mar 2026 16:30:03 GMT

Today I spoke with the developer who introduced the PR to Systemd which added in a birth date field to userdb which spawned a massive drama and much worse as he describes in what has happened to him following that.

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Coughing Caused This App To Segfault

Mon, 23 Mar 2026 16:30:09 GMT

Every so often I like taking a look at these really dumb Linux software issues and you know what, this is certainly high on the list of dumb software bugs.

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Issue: https://github.com/performous/performous/issues/38
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We Know A Little More About Steam Machine & Frame

Sun, 22 Mar 2026 16:30:22 GMT

Finally we got a few more crumbs of information about the upcoming Steam Machine and Steam Frame but frankly with the state of things I'm getting more and more worried about the release.

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Steam Slides: https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/steamworks_docs/english/GDC_2026_HWTalk.pdf
Verification Docs: https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/steamdeck/compat
IGN Comments: https://www.ign.com/articles/1080p-at-30fps-valve-steam-machines-verified-program
PC Gamer Article: ttps://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/valve-says-over-5000-games-made-over-usd100k-on-steam-last-year/
Last Month Post: https://steamcommunity.com/groups/steam_hardware/announcements/detail/625565405086220584?
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We Need To Talk About The Systemd Birth Date Situation

Sat, 21 Mar 2026 16:30:01 GMT

We need to talk about the recent Systemd age field merge request clear up what is actually being added, and what this actually means for Linux in its current state.

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How Did This Emoji Ever Get Approved

Thu, 19 Mar 2026 16:30:05 GMT

Have you ever thought about what an Emoji goes through to get approved, well lets go and take a look at some of the proposals for the dumb emoji in the Unicode 17.0 standard.

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Inflatable Face Emoji: https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2024/24250-inflatable-face-emoji.pdf
Orca Emoji: https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2024/24249-orca-emoji.pdf
Bigfoot Emoji: https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2024/24251-bigfoot-emoji.pdf

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Manjaro Linux Developers Are Taking The Distro Back

Wed, 18 Mar 2026 16:30:12 GMT

Manjaro has been going through some management issues for quite a while now and it seems like that is finally boiling over with the release of the Manjaro Manifesto 2.0 a complete community take over of the corporate.

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Did Mozilla Finally End The Fox

Tue, 17 Mar 2026 16:30:09 GMT

There's been talks of Mozilla killing off the Fox for years now, and maybe that is actually happening. Well no it's not this is clearly a marketing campaign but what happens now.

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Firefox Logo: https://blog.mozilla.org/en/internet-culture/the-fox-is-still-in-the-firefox-logo/
Evolution Of A Brand: https://blog.mozilla.org/opendesign/firefox-the-evolution-of-a-brand/
OMG Ubuntu: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/03/is-firefox-about-to-get-a-new-logo
Kit Mascot: https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/introducing-kit-your-new-companion-through-the-web/146463
Reddit Announcement: https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/1rsrjle/you_may_have_noticed_someone_new_in_firefox_lets/
Nova Redesign: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/03/firefox-nova-redesign

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#Mozilla #Linux #Firefox #OpenSource #FOSS

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QITiC4v0Tf8

No One Is Using Top Level Domains Correctly

Mon, 16 Mar 2026 16:30:06 GMT

There are a lot of TLD or top level domains and whilst you've probably seen most of these, you may not know where they've come from and what they're supposed to be used for.

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Why C++ Never Got Into The Linux Kernel

Sun, 15 Mar 2026 16:30:19 GMT

You've probably heard about Rust being brought into the kernel by now but another language was once on the table, that being C++ but whatever happened to that and why won't it ever happen now

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Ageless Linux Thinks Its Exempt From Age Verification

Sat, 14 Mar 2026 16:30:10 GMT

With all the OS age verification stuff going on there's one Linux distro that appeared out of nowhere that has some crazy ideas for how to handle these laws.

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Misconfigured AI Compromises 5 Million Users

Thu, 12 Mar 2026 16:30:07 GMT

AI is being adopted in more and more projects being allowed in some case to do most if not all what a human developer can do, and much like a human developer they can a lot of really stupid things

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A Whole New Challenge For Open Source Licenses

Wed, 11 Mar 2026 16:30:27 GMT

Whilst developers are dealing with AI slop contributions to there repos, at the same time there's a whole new problem to deal with, using AI to "rewrite" the project to effectively launder the code out to another license, in this case from LGPL to MIT

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Chardet Repo: https://github.com/chardet/chardet
Morten Linderud Post: https://chaos.social/@Foxboron/116170859737134271
Log: https://github.com/chardet/chardet/releases/tag/7.0.0
Github PR: https://github.com/chardet/chardet/pull/322
Mark Pilgrim: https://github.com/chardet/chardet/issues/327
AI Copyright: https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-supreme-court-declines-hear-dispute-over-copyrights-ai-generated-material-2026-03-02/

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Age Verification On Linux Is Worse Than We Thought

Tue, 10 Mar 2026 16:30:00 GMT

OS level age verification is evolving incredibly quickly and by the time this comes out there's probably going to be more that we don't even know is happening yet, this is coming and it's not just a matter of blocking 1 or 2 states anymore

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Colorado: https://legiscan.com/CO/rollcall/SB051/id/1650632
Brazil: https://www.planalto.gov.br/ccivil_03/_ato2023-2026/2025/Lei/L15211.htm
Utah: https://le.utah.gov/~2025/bills/static/SB0142.html
Illinois: https://legiscan.com/IL/bill/SB3977/2025
Texas: https://www.texastribune.org/2025/12/23/texas-app-store-child-ban-age-verification/
Apple: https://developer.apple.com/news/?id=f5zj08ey
Ubuntu: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2026-March/043510.html
Linux Mint: https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=464675
Fedora Linux: https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/california-age-verification/181968/
FreeDos: https://sourceforge.net/p/freedos/mailman/freedos-devel/thread/CAHvaD3bijzX1LZ4Db%2B7MMmnU%3DV6jiHzi3XDaTtkW9-jginS2Bg%40mail.gmail.com/#msg59302653
Nobara: https://x.com/GloriousEggroll/status/2029034435702866153
System76 Post: https://blog.system76.com/post/system76-on-age-verification
Reddit Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1rmhxk1/i_pulled_the_actual_bill_text_from_5_state_age/

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Did Linus Seriously Break PopOS Again | Linux Nerd Reacts

Mon, 09 Mar 2026 16:30:31 GMT

Its time once again for an LTT Linux challenge, and this time we actually have 3 members taking on the challenge although it's only really a challenge for one of the members, and you'll never guess who

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These Open Source Project Should Never Exist

Sun, 08 Mar 2026 16:30:09 GMT

Some ideas simply shouldn't be thought of and if they are they certainly shouldn't be implemented and today I just wanted to highlight a handful of projects that fit exactly that description

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Tai Groot: https://x.com/taigrr
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Foldybird: https://x.com/rebane2001/status/2007198231479103611
Charchery: https://x.com/rebane2001/status/2014007573037355357
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This Is Suckless Wayland

Sat, 07 Mar 2026 16:30:14 GMT

If you've been on Linux for a while, you probably know the name Suckless, but what if I told you there was a Wayland version of Suckless as well.

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GNOME Puts Github's Free Hosting To Good Use

Thu, 05 Mar 2026 16:30:07 GMT

AI has been massively increasing the cost of hosting GNOME has a plan to deal with the git side of things, they have a Github mirror anyway, so why not just make use it off to offload the clones.

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GNOME Issue 1: https://gitlab.gnome.org/Teams/Websites/General/-/issues/319
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This Week In Gnome: https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2026/02/twig-238/

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Sudo-rs Is Finally Showing Password Feedback By Default

Wed, 04 Mar 2026 16:30:13 GMT

You probably know that Ubuntu has adopted uutils and sudo-rs, well in sudo-rs they decided to go and enable pwfeedback and this change was some what controversial so lets talk about it.

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pwfeedback CVE: https://www.sudo.ws/security/advisories/pwfeedback/
Sudo-rs change: https://github.com/trifectatechfoundation/sudo-rs/issues/1300
Password from Vibration: https://www.royalholloway.ac.uk/research-and-education/departments-and-schools/information-security/news/study-suggests-that-ai-can-detect-your-password-from-the-sound-of-keys-being-pressed/
Ubuntu Bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sudo/+bug/194472
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Forced Age Verification Is Coming To Linux

Tue, 03 Mar 2026 16:30:14 GMT

You've probably heard a lot of both the passed California OS Age verification bill and the similar bill also coming from Colorado, so what are projects effected actually doing about it.

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Colorado Bill: https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/SB26-051
California Bill: https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1043
Midnight BSD: https://x.com/midnightbsd/status/2027101491211718765
PopOS Response: https://www.reddit.com/r/pop_os/comments/1rfqyf8/is_pop_os_going_to_cave_to_californiacolorado
Fedora Linux: https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/california-age-verification/181968/3
Manjaro Linux: https://forum.manjaro.org/t/california-and-colorado-laws-an-os-age-verification/185960/24
PopOS 2: https://www.reddit.com/r/pop_os/comments/1rgeclg/response_to_system76s_stance_on_bills_requiring/

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There's Too Many Neofetch Clones On Linux

Mon, 02 Mar 2026 16:30:13 GMT

Even if you've just seen a few Linux desktop screenshots, you've probably seen a Linux fetch application at least once but why are there even so many.

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#Linux #OpenSource #FOSS #LinuxDesktop

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Wayland's Weston Might Actually Be Good Now

Sun, 01 Mar 2026 16:30:20 GMT

Recently the Weston project decided to add in a new lua shell and this opens up a lot of opportunities for building a custom experience on top of it.

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No One Is Buying Computers Anymore

Sat, 28 Feb 2026 16:30:16 GMT

RAM Pricing is absolutely insane, storage is following along, nobody is buying computers anymore and the industry is an absolute mess

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BCacheFS Developer Deployed His AI Girlfriend Helper

Thu, 26 Feb 2026 22:28:58 GMT

By now you probably know about Kent Overstreet's antics in the Linux kernel with BcacheFS but we're not here to talk about that today, instead we're here to talk his AI chat bot which he is convinced is sentient and feels real emotion.

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Ladybird Browser Gave Up C++ For Rust Lang

Wed, 25 Feb 2026 16:30:18 GMT

For a long time Ladybird browser was going to adopt Swift lang but recently they did a port over to Rust and not just that, used AI to start off the port and this lead to a bit of controversy.

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Ladybird Swift Issue: https://github.com/LadybirdBrowser/ladybird/issues/933
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HDMI 2.1 Support Is Coming To Linux With A Catch

Tue, 24 Feb 2026 16:30:16 GMT

You probably know that HDMI 2.1 is a no go on Linux with an AMD GPU, well that's only if you're an HDMI Forum member, who says you have to listen to there rules if you just reverse engineer the support.

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HDMI 2.1 FRL Work: https://github.com/mkopec/linux/tree/hdmi_frl_amd_staging
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Xilinux Article: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMDGPU-HDMI-2.1-But-Xilinx
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The Most Unique Way To Make Bash Shell Scripts

Mon, 23 Feb 2026 16:30:02 GMT

If you're on Linux you've probably written at least a couple of Bash shell scripts, but what if there was another way to do it, a node based way where you didn't have to write any code by hand.

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Wayland Screensavers Are Not Only Possible But Exist

Sun, 22 Feb 2026 16:30:18 GMT

You've probably heard that screensavers aren't possible on Wayland but that's not actually the case, not only are they possible but there are options available to use like XScreensaver even on Wayland

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Xscreensaver 6.12: https://www.jwz.org/blog/2025/07/xscreensaver-6-12/
Linux Mint: https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4991
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Reviving KDE 4 Oxygen For Modern KDE Plasma

Sat, 21 Feb 2026 16:30:12 GMT

Nowadays the default look of KDE Plasma is called Breeze but before that during the KDE 4 era we had both Oxygen and Air and this developer is trying to bring it back.

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Hyprland And Niri Changed Wayland Forever

Thu, 19 Feb 2026 16:30:21 GMT

The window manager space on Wayland has completely changed over the past few years, there was a time when Sway was the only good choice but now you have both Hyprland a dynamic tiler and Niri a scroller and this has changed the equation for what you can do on Wayland.

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Hyprland Wiki: https://wiki.hypr.land/
Niri Wiki: https://github.com/niri-wm/niri/wiki/Configuration:-Introduction
Quickshell: https://quickshell.org/
Material Shell: https://github.com/AvengeMedia/DankMaterialShell
Noctalia: https://github.com/noctalia-dev/noctalia-shell
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KDE Plasma Is Still Not Dropping Non-Systemd and FreeBSD

Wed, 18 Feb 2026 16:30:00 GMT

A few weeks back KDE announced that the new Plasma Login Manager was going to require the use of Systemd and thus wouldn't work on FreeBSD or the other BSDs and whilst this is true it's only about the Login Manager not the rest of KDE Plasma

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Linuxiac: https://linuxiac.com/kaos-2026-02-debuts-niri-wayland-desktop/
XDA Developers: https://www.xda-developers.com/linux-distro-dropped-kde-plasma-support-tries-to-escape-systemd/
KaOS News Post: https://kaosx.us/news/2026/kaos02/
Reddit Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/1r68jmi/a_quick_antifud_faq_to_debunk_the_kde_is_forcing/
FreeBSd Wayland: https://x61.sh/log/2024/05/27052024192206-sway_openbsd.html
NetBSD 2020: https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/wayland_on_netbsd_trials_and
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AI Agents Are Writing Hit Pieces On Developers

Tue, 17 Feb 2026 16:30:28 GMT

What if I told you that an AI agent just tried to ruin the career of a developer on Matplotlib who was following Matplotlib policy to not allow AI agents, writing a hilarious blog post on the situation but it gets even better from there

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Issue: https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/issues/31130
Merge Request: https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/pull/31132
OpenClaw Joins OpenAI: https://www.itnews.com.au/news/openclaw-founder-joins-openai-623662
AI Blog Post 1: https://crabby-rathbun.github.io/mjrathbun-website/blog/posts/2026-02-11-gatekeeping-in-open-source-the-scott-shambaugh-story.html
AI Blog Post 2: https://crabby-rathbun.github.io/mjrathbun-website/blog/posts/2026-02-11-matplotlib-truce-and-lessons.html
Scott Blog Post 1: https://crabby-rathbun.github.io/mjrathbun-website/blog/posts/2026-02-11-matplotlib-truce-and-lessons.html
Ars Technica Article: https://web.archive.org/web/20260213194851/https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/02/after-a-routine-code-rejection-an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-someone-by-name/
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