Category Tech

Linux Kernel 6.11 is EOL

They’ve labeled Linux Kernel 6.11 EOL, so don’t wait too long to switch to 6.12 or other LTS kernel as there will be no official updates except for security updates from your distribution security team. Also Linux Kernel 6.12 will…

ChatGPT is Garbage

I’ve never played with these AI systems as you generally had to identify yourself to use them, and that just struck me as wrong making me think a data collection scheme. But I’ve seen examples of their output, and one…

Debian Testing Receives KDE 6

And curiously, they seem to have fixed SDDM which has been broken on my Debian Unstable, which isn’t a big deal as it will use LightDM. But this leaves just Debian Stable on KDE 5 until the next release of…

Employee Lawsuit Accuses Apple of Spying on Its Workers

(Headline article at bottom) Before I left AT&T they had gone full bossware on our computers tracking us completely, and for where the megacorps really want to go, see this WEF presentation on “brain transparency” regarding monitoring brain waves with…

Most Popular Malware and Why It Hacks You

Trends of malware and what they’re doing on regular people’s PCs. And it’s just not wise to use a Windows PC on the internet, as a great way to protect yourself is to use a LInux virtual machine which you…

Both KDE and GNOME to Offer Official Distros

Some additional info on the official KDE and GNOME distributions in the works. GNOME isn’t really as it’s a nightly build meant to be run as a VM, and it would seem mainly for developers (GNOME has proven itself to…

Debian Unstable Receives KDE 6.2.3

After doing a conservative ‘sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade” there was one package in red I didn’t pay enough attention to which broke my KDE 5 desktop environment. So using XFCE also installed, I went ahead and did…