
Sometimes you know something, but due to the way that the brain compartmentalizes information, your brain still fails to connect the dots. For most people, the operating system IS the computer. People can tell when they aren't running Windows, but they don't think about it as running Windows on a computer. They think about it as just running a computer. So the idea that the computer would behave differently on a different OS might not fully register to them, even if they know they're running a different operating system.
Compare that to buying a Mac, it's a completely different computer, complete with different buttons on the keyboard. Naturally, this carries the expectation that it's going to behave a little differently.
Putting Linux on the


Hi all,
Two releases landed this month, 0.9.0.0 on August 6th and 0.9.1.0 on August 17th, plus 66-tools 0.2.0.1. Here is what changed.
This was announced back at 0.7.0.0 and it is now done. 66 builds against oblibs only. Every program it used to borrow is now its own:
To be precise about the wording, because it matters: execline is still a runtime dependency, the generated service scripts keep chainloading it. What disappeared is the build dependency, and with it the entire skalibs/s6 layer.
A service can now react to something happening elsewhere on the system by running a 66 command on itsel



tfm is a modern mouse-first terminal file manager I've been vibecoding, it features DnD, themes, basic file ops, undo redo, embedded terminal, search, preview pane with tree-sitter highlighting and other stuff
Limitations: cross-app or external DnD needs kitty (ghostty gets thumbnails and stuff but cant do external Dnd on my testing) and Dnd needs separate keybinding for internal DnD (ctrl + drag) etc.
Install:
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/clarkarch/tfm-tui/master/install.sh | bash 
I've seen people elevating their tmux shells for convenient root access many times, often leaving the sessions running in the background for a long time.
Doing this makes it very trivial to escalate permissions for anybody that gets a shell to your box with your user.
Instead, you should run sudo tmux in another session, then do your thing there. This limits access to the tmux service for the root user only, which prevents the privilege escalation path.

For a long time, I didn't give Linux a tertiary thought. I always used Windows and assumed other operating systems like Linux and Apple would be of cheap quality. I realized my error when I got the Valve Steam Deck, which used its own Linux-based OS. While a number of features and apps from Windows wouldn't work on it easily, I discovered just how open-sourced and versatile it is. There were also a lot of things that worked better, such as installing and managing Deckyloader (a Steam plugin loader).
Regardless, I still used Windows 10 on my PC. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. But then Microsoft decided to break it by discontinuing updates to the OS and pressuring me to use the controversial Windows 11. While I did ultimately update, it also ultimat


I've been daily-driving Linux as my primary OS for a bit more than 5 years now, and if you count in server administration well over 10. During this time I've accumulated quite a number of useful shell aliases and functions, so I thought I'd share a few that are generally useful.
I use all of the following on bash. I know, I'm old school like that. They probably work on many other shells too although I haven't personally tested them. They are all very simple though so at worst it should be an easy fix.
alias cwd=$'pwd | tr -d \'\\n\' | tty-copy' (for "Copy Working Directory")Ever needed to copy the current working directory? No more of the whole pwd, select the output, ctrl+

I wanted to change the automatic sleep/spindown timer of an old WD My Book 111D under Linux.
The important detail is that the setting belongs to the WD enclosure/USB bridge, not to the HDD's ATA APM settings.
My device:
1058:111d1049/dev/sdc/dev/sg4lsscsi -g shows:
[2:0:0:0] disk WD My Book 111D 1049 /dev/sdc /dev/sg2 [2:0:0:1] cd/dvd WD Virtual CD 111D 1049 /dev/sr0 /dev/sg3 [2:0:0:2] enclosu WD SES Device 1049 - /dev/sg4 The enclosure identifies itself as:
Vendor: WD
Today, Linux turned 35 years old, from when it was created on 25 August 1991 by a young programmer, Linus Torvalds, at the University of Helsinki, Finland.
It was announced on the comp.os.minix newsgroup.
Original post: "“What would you like to see most in minix?” — Linus Torvalds, 25 August 1991.
Linux is still being developed by developers all around the world, upholding its Unix-like design and open-source principles.
Linux 7.2 is currently the latest mainline release.
Happy 35th Birthday, Linux! 🎂 and 🐟
*i made the poster by hand and my designing skill are bad, sorry for it*

I recently spent time diving deep into the configuration workflow for both, and there are some critical differences every infrastructure pro should know.
If you are setting up a cluster, you need to understand why you would choose GFS2 over NFS, even though NFS is 10x easier to configure.
I’ve put together a quick visual guide attached below that covers:
✅ The high-level config steps for both.
✅ The prerequisite cluster stack needed for GFS2.
✅ When to use which based on my findings.
