People give Windows a lot of flak for this, but at least it usually does turn off after finishing its updates.

MacOS is the one that will just literally ignore the fact that you told it to shut down. Or it takes forever to tell you that a program has unsaved changes. At least Windows will tell you that right away, so that you see the “something is preventing shutdown” message before you walk away from the computer. Your Mac will wait 15 minutes, and then be like, “by the way, the browser doesn’t want to close.”

Pfft, the only “hoarding problem” is that storage is expensive these days!

They came out great!

Good game, but didn’t come out on the neo geo.

Great list. Vectorman was one of my favorites as a kid. Challenging and fun, with great visuals and an amazing soundtrack.

I didn’t have the Streets of Rage games back then, but I played them a few years ago with my roommate after we beat Streets of Rage 4. The old ones absolutely still hold up.

I love this. I’m thinking of making another partition on my laptop so I can have a separate OS with no desktop environment. Reclaiming my attention span has kind of been a project for me this year. I was casually exploring how to make a setup like this with an e-ink screen, but e-ink displays are more expensive that I was hoping.

It’s using a Raspberry Pi Pico, not a full Raspberry Pi. The Pico is a microcontroller designed for this kind of use. It basically just runs a single program, written in C or Python. It does not run full-blown Linux in addition to that program.

Well, nothing yet. I’m hunting for a spare microSD card so that the thing will turn on.

It has an MP3 player app. There’s no headphone jack, but I’m guessing a usb-c-to-3.5-mm converter will work. I like using a standalone MP3 player at the gym – I’ll see if this works well for that.

Aside from that, I’ll just use it as an actual VMU, and check out all the games that have VMU features that I never played back in the day. Do you have any recommendations?

I’m curious about whose website this is. Does this person make one-off informational pages? This security.html page has one style, then there’s popular_self_hosting_services.html with a different style, and the homepage with a classic, basic HTML style.

I haven’t read the article yet – I can’t say if it’s good info or bad info. But it’s nice to know something about who’s writing it when it comes to this kind of thing.

I mean, there’s gotta be a few nines in there if you keep going enough decimal places to the right…

A mistake in the article: ghostty is not “nearly two decades” old. It’s like two years old. I think the author saw that the ghostty developer had been on github for that long, and assumed that the ghostty project had been going the whole time.

It’s great to see popular projects moving to alternatives.

Very cool! Sorry I have nothing to add to it, but this is a great idea, and radicle is a great fit for this.

I’m always torn about what kinds of features should be put behind a paywall. Like, if it’s just little customizations, that’s much better than saying, “pay us a monthly fee to make more people see your posts.” It seems silly to make UI customization a pro feature, but that also seems like a non-evil way of monetizing a social media app.

Cool, that makes sense. Linux Mint has a reputation for user friendliness, it’s got to have one. The author of this article must have missed it.

I had to install Steam through the command line […] Steam is available in Linux Mint’s default repository, so I could get it with a quick “sudo apt-get install steam” in the terminal.

I’ve never used Mint before; does it not come with a graphical app store?

And man, I love how so many articles from major websites mentioning Windows 11 are actually about how to avoid it altogether. :D

I’m liking it so far. One thing that I noticed is that, by default, when you add a new source (person, Youtube channel, etc.), it asks you what category that source should go it. Mastodon’s web UI has the multi-column layout, and you can use that to categorize people you follow, but I always end up forgetting to do that. Seems like Surf makes categories the first thing you do, rather than an optional thing you do later. I think I’m going to like this more organized feed based around topics.

From what I can see, this means I need to exit the app to take some action with my mastodon account.

I haven’t tried posting anything yet, but just liking and boosting has been doing it through my Mastodon account. If I’m interacting with a bluesky post, then it uses the bluesky account that it automatically created for me. But since I signed in with my Mastodon account, all of those actions have been done by my Mastodon account.

Thanks for writing that up! I’m curious: what makes you use Readeck for some things and Linkwarden for others? It seems like they have the same use case, and pretty much the same features.

I’ve been using wallabag for quite a while, before Linkwarden and Readeck were written, and I haven’t felt a reason to switch away from it.

A thing I like doing with wallabag is:

1. Select a bunch of articles that I want to read on my ebook reader
2. Tag them as “exported_on_2026-04-02”
3. Export them as an epub
4. The epub is synced automatically by syncthing to my ebook reader (it’s like an eink Android tablet)
5. Once I’ve read that file on the ebook reader, select all entries tagged with “exported_on_2026-04-02” and mark them as read. Or just mark them as read right away, since I’ll definitely get to them once they’re on the ebook reader.

I haven’t found any other bookmarking applications that can conveniently tag articles in bulk, export, and then mark as read in bulk like wallabag. From the website, it looks like Readeck can, I’ll have to check it out.

I’m always amazed when I find a project that is still using Sourceforge. I always assume that it is completely unused by any active projects anymore. MX Linux was the most recent one I came across. Their ISOs are on sourceforge, although they use Github for their main repo.

And…apparently Sourceforge was bough by Slashdot in 2019?! Wow. Two early-2000s heavyweights right there.

For anyone wanting more details on this: https://kotaku.com/how-warcraft-was-almost-a-warhammer-game-and-how-that-5929161

Warcraft was originally supposed to be a Warhammer 40K game, but Blizzard ended up not getting the license, so they created their own universe instead.