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Some lessons are learned the hard way....or in this case, the looong way.

6 years of ditching Gmail and I still miss that tiny but handy feature.

There are fewer official flavors with 26.04 LTS version. Is it alarming?

Should you skip this new release or jump on the bandwagon and upgrade to 26.04? Let me help you with that.

As regulators rush to “protect children,” we risk creating something worse. A more centralized, identity-driven, and surveilled internet that strengthens Big Tech instead of challenging it.

Plain Text, Git, and the Long Afterlife of Written Work.

The Linux desktop has evolved, and it's high time for the “advanced package manager” experience to evolve with it.

In part II of his Emacs series, novelist Theena Kumaragurunathan, demonstrates how Emacs is becoming an extension of his writing brain.

The venerable text editor feels timeless and timely in the age of AI and enshittification. A novelist argues that it is perhaps because Emacs is the embodiment of FOSS ideals

Linux desktop is often described as fragmented, but with the right perspective, it becomes clear that this description only makes sense if you see Linux as a single, unified product, and expect it act like one. It isn't, and so it doesn't.

If you recognized yourself in a few of these points, that doesn’t mean Linux isn’t for you. In fact, you can count it as an invitation. It just means you’ve spent a long time in an ecosystem that treats you more like a product than a participant.

Self‑hosting isn’t anti‑cloud; it’s pro‑agency. It’s choosing the right locus of control for the things you care about.

Those who used GNOME 2 in the 2000's would remember the now forgotten GNOME Office. I think it's time to revive that project.