A Windows laptop may include a license you never plan to use, but getting money back is not an automatic Microsoft process. This guide explains how to preserve evidence, identify the license, contact the right company, handle a denial, and install Linux without weakening your claim.
Omarchy 4.0.0 showed how a polished Linux desktop can still turn filenames, notifications, themes, and device names into security boundaries. This guide explains the vulnerabilities, the v4.0.1 response, and the engineering lessons behind them.
OpenLogi is a local-first alternative to Logitech Options+ that remaps buttons and controls DPI/SmartShift over HID++ while storing settings in a plain TOML config. It’s designed to keep everything on your machine with minimal network activity and no account.
An old reMarkable 2 can fail cloud sync and updates after years of inactivity—often due to a wrong clock and an obsolete client version. This post shows a practical recovery flow: SSH in to fix time, restart update services, handle SSH-over-Wi‑Fi changes, and finally move files via the local USB web interface.
A CMF Phone 1 became a reliable personal server by keeping Android in charge of hardware and power, using Termux for Linux tooling, and runit for supervision. Compatibility layers like proot work for many services, but latency-sensitive workloads benefit from a real chroot into the expected filesystem.
Kakehashi is an experimental userspace translation layer that runs macOS ARM64 (Darwin Mach-O) binaries on Linux aarch64 without JIT or CPU instruction emulation. It loads a guest Mach-O, provides a freestanding libSystem, and translates BSD syscalls and thread boundaries via a hypercall/trap mechanism.
A reported ripgrep crash affects x86_64 MUSL builds during massive directory walks. The SIGSEGV comes from musl mallocng integrity checks triggered via calloc→opendir while Rust threads iterate directories. The takeaway: allocator invariants can fail under extreme size + concurrency, and the stack trace points straight at that boundary.
KOReader is an open-source e‑ink eBook reader that makes PDFs feel workable: reflow, OCR-assisted text extraction, zoom modes, and smarter navigation. It also supports customization through Lua-based plugins.
A jailbroken Kindle can join your Tailscale tailnet, but apps often fail without proper routing. New community modes add SSH by default, a proxy mode (SOCKS5/HTTP CONNECT on localhost ports), and optional kernel TUN for device-level networking—turning the Kindle into a practical tailnet client.
Reviving an old ASUS Eee PC netbook starts with accepting the limits: 32-bit CPU, 1GB RAM, and Wi‑Fi setup during install. This guide walks through installing Arch Linux 32 with ISO signature verification, boot media, iwd/iwctl networking, and a minimal Arch setup.