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Microsoft "suddenly" does not seem to want you to run your own CI, which is a key part of running your own SCM. And this decision miraculously happens the moment a lot of big orgs are looking at self-hosting a cost effective (because open source) near 1:1 alternative to GitHub (=Forgejo).

So they make CI a bit cheaper but a future migration to Forgejo harder.

In fact they could easily pull off some typical sleazy Microsoft bullshit and eventually make it a shit ton harder to migrate out of GitHub once you migrated back in.

Funny, but I am not a Russian troll. I am in fact native to West Europe and have to face the consequences of this bullshit (including rising energy prices) every single day.

You are totally wrong.

It's 20:21 CET+1 back here in West Europe and I am one of many living through the consequences and actually in the middle of this total shit storm.

Do you think we, the native people of Europe, think the collapse of our countries is somehow funny or to be applauded? DO YOU?!?

Because they know Forgejo is starting to get attention from major players and thus becoming competitive, and hosting your own CI infrastructure will make completely moving away from GitHub all that easier - If you don't really care about the metadata all it pretty much takes is moving git repositories with their history.

Or shortly summarized: lock in through pricing.

Pretty sure this will explode straight in their faces though. And pretty damn hard.

It's not. Like TPM and several new CPU features are a hard requirement for Windows 11, which are patched out by tools like Rufus but can lead to a broken system with every single update you install, a NPU is a hard requirement for the upcoming major update with agentic AI.

They got a storm of criticism after that announcement, but Microsoft seemingly has not given a single fuck about that and has not backtracked on this decision.

(Just like they technically could have allowed Windows 11 to run on older PCs with some disabled features out of the box, but didn't)

They already announced side loading will continue to work, while making it slightly more difficult for average users to install suspicious crap on their phone or tablet. I can live with that:

https://www.androidauthority.com/android-power-users-install...

Also, how sideloading works seemingly varies from vendor to vendor. On my Samsung devices I never had to fiddle with ADB or developer mode to install a APK from outside the Play store, I just download something, toggle crapware protection off, install, toggle crapware protection on and I'm done. Think it might has something to with all the customization work Samsung put into One UI (and just outright removing stuff from Google they didn't like).

All the while Android users - or at least those on the Samsung Galaxy sub-ecosystem - are happily downloading free, as in open source, software from alternative sources like F-Droid (https://f-droid.org/), Obtainium (https://obtainium.imranr.dev/), Accrescent (https://accrescent.app/), and even can access the main app store through a more privacy friendly way using Aurora (https://auroraoss.com/) - although with the latter you will probably break a license agreement you never read anyway, so fuck that.

That, and:

* Customization is better -- Apple has nothing like Good Lock, which is developed AND officially supported by Samsung,

* AI is better -- And Samsung even gives the choice to run AI features completely locally on your phone -or- in the cloud,

* Features for power users are all around better -- As a example did you know Google built a freaking virtualization service which allows you to run a full Linux operating system, with an complete KDE Plasma or GNOME UI on top of Android? Well, now you do. Super fun feature to have on a phone. Even more super fun feature to have on a tablet.

And then there's DeX -- at least on the Galaxies, as long as Google is working on the built in desktop features for the next Android release.

And for those times you quickly want or need a Linux shell you can launch Termux (https://termux.dev/en/).

Most notably and importantly: for all these things you don't have to root or jailbreak ANYTHING... They work completely out of the box -- Although you can get a scary sounding warning when downloading stuff from outside the Play store, but if you really understand and can deal with the consequences this can be easily solved using a toggle button.

How Apple keeps managing to drive themselves and their developer ecosystem completely in the ground still is completely baffling to me. And that comes from someone who really used to love Apple, back in the Jobs era (Got the first iPod, iPhone, iPad, and first Intel MacBook Pro to prove it).

PS: Because lots of people got super pissed about Google abandoning sideloading on Android they walked back on their initial decisions and it will keep working for the foreseeable future

So that's it then. Zen is going to eat their market share for lunch.

https://zen-browser.app/

"Just" some Copilot integration (in the form of chat or smart suggestions) is just the start.

The next major Windows 11 update coming in 2026 will have full agentic AI with full control over your (your?) PC. And it will hard require a pretty recent processor with Neural Processor Unit to make it work (so a lot more e-waste is coming).

I fear for the future.

But the symbol above the tile tells me you could hide it from the UI. Which is often the case with... uhm... "sponsored" and thus unremovable software on these kind of devices.

The Netherlands pretty much has the most strict carbon regulations in Europe. So while houses could be build, they can't be build because of those.

And while those are in place our small country is literally flooded with asylum seekers and our government doesn't seem to care about that (~1000 each week for several years now and those are just the official numbers, https://www.rijksoverheid.nl/documenten/publicaties/2025/01/...).

If they get a permit to stay (and most of them do) they get priority access to the already small housing market. So a lot of people who want to start a family in their own house are stuck at the basement or the attic at the house of their parents (either figurative or literally).

If someone thinks I am making things up or exaggerating: I was lucky enough to buy the house of my parents before this nightmare started. I bought it for approximately $150k, which is near the actual market price at the time. Somewhere in the next 1-2 years it will probably be valued at least 4 times more (if it isn't already).

Please, please, please go to anywhere EXCEPT the Netherlands. We beg you.

We have a gigantic and near unsolvable housing problem. We have thousands of refugees/immigrants with residence permits waiting for housing already (currently stuck in hotels and bungalow parks just to give them a roof over their heads), and we don't even have enough affordable houses for our own.

On behalf of everyone in the Netherlands waiting to start a family in their own affordable house, thank you.

Last time I tried DeepSeek locally it performed hilariously bad on giving correct responses in - at least - Dutch.

I think it's because they have (had?) very inadequate training sets outside the English/Chinese language domain.

My experience with Gemma (Gemini) and Llama was bounds better at the time.

If you really want to play games with anti-cheat with a Linux machine right now you could also try cloud gaming, or to be exact Nvidia's Geforce Now - because most of the smaller cloud gaming services like Shadow PC and Boosteroid simply run Windows Virtual Machines with GPU passthrough on which kernel level anti cheat... you guessed it... does not work.

Nvidia is publically advertising that five games from the Call of Duty series (notoriously known for their kernel level anti cheat) and Battlefield 1, 4, 5, 2042 and the very recent Battlefield 6 (same) are able to run on Geforce Now (https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce-now/games/).

There's even a native client for Linux thanks to their recent Steam Deck support (you only need to hack a bit since it's basically optimized to run on SteamOS KDE and Steam Big Picture mode which is quite easy thanks to Google search, and you should be pretty much good to go).

Another option would be Moonlight/Sunshine (https://moonlight-stream.org/, https://github.com/LizardByte/Sunshine) but that option requires you to have a pretty beefy game PC or server w/ decent GPU next to your Linux machine to host the games.

For me one of the best ways until now to get good quality IT books is (believe it or not): Humble Bundle (https://www.humblebundle.com/)

The past year they featured bundles from (quickly out of my head): O'Reilly, MIT Press, Manning, Pearson, Pragmatic Programmers and No Starch Press.

Oh, and Packt. But I left that one out because the quality of most Packt books is total shit (IMO).

It's the next best thing besides going on the seven seas if you want to reliably read IT related books on a ereader without spending a ton of money. (book bundles go for about $20 to $30 each, with most if of not all of them totaling up to $1000 or sometimes even more in value).

If you're fast there's still time to get these right now:

15 Linux/DevOps related books from O'Reilly: https://www.humblebundle.com/books/linux-from-beginner-to-pr...

20 Data Science/Data Engineering related books from O'Reilly: https://www.humblebundle.com/books/data-engineering-science-...

18 Hacking/Cybersec related books from No Starch: https://www.humblebundle.com/books/hacking-no-starch-books

19 Software Architecture related books from Pearson: https://www.humblebundle.com/books/software-architecture-pea...

29 AI related books from Manning: https://www.humblebundle.com/books/ultimate-ai-algorithms-an...

21 Microsoft Certification prep books from Pearson: https://www.humblebundle.com/books/microsoft-certification-p...

19 books on Software Strategy and Risk Management from Pragmatic Programmers: https://www.humblebundle.com/books/software-strategy-and-ris...

some alternatives which can be self hosted:

open-appsec (by checkpoint), their proxy/gateway integration and your favorite firewall daemon:

https://docs.openappsec.io/getting-started/start-with-linux

appsec (by crowdsec), their proxy/gateway integration and your favorite firewall daemon:

https://docs.crowdsec.net/u/getting_started/installation/lin...

You might want to give Mango a spin: https://mangowc.vercel.app/ - Docs: https://mangowc.vercel.app/docs

GNOME has already dropped support for X11, and KDE Plasma is planning it for the next major point release (6.8): https://blogs.kde.org/2025/11/26/going-all-in-on-a-wayland-f...

That might change things a bit.

That but pretty much the entire header, and the calendar is too wide to properly fit on A4.

Depending on how this thing is structured all these things could be easily fixed using a print stylesheet (https://inviqa.com/blog/print-stylesheet-definitive-guide)

The only brand currently on the market with > 96Gb DDR5 SODIMM memory modules which currently is a set of 128Gb (2x64) DDR5 SODIMMs is Crucial. At least here in the EU.

So if you're on the market for a current gen laptop or laptop based mini pc (e.g. AMD Strix Point - HX 370 and friends) containing a pretty fast AI capable iGPU with system shared memory (e.g. the Radeon 890M which is part of Strix Point), meaning you can allocate at most 50% of system memory = ~64Gb to the video card, you better stock up soon.

It's a little tongue-in-cheek, but as you can see elsewhere in this discussion thread he mentions this himself on his own X account:

"get asked the same about terminals all the time. “How will you turn this into a business? What’s the monetization strategy?” The monetization strategy is that my bank account has 3 commas mate."

https://x.com/mitchellh/status/1964785527741427940

Take a good guess where the three commas come from.

While foot focuses on minimalism, Ghostty brings along a shit ton of features like support for Kitty's (https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/) graphics protocol (in terminal images! - https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/graphics-protocol/), advanced window management (windows, tabs, splits) and OpenGL pixelshaders (https://catskull.net/fun-with-ghostty-shaders.html)

Given features it's more comparable to Kitty than foot IMO.

Rather thank IBM for paying Mitchell an outrageous amount of money for Hashicorp, so he can devote all of his time on awesome projects like Ghostty without ever thinking about sustainable income ever again.

So thanks, IBM! <3

Along this subject: Play the infinite game. Awesome book, and the most awesome and embolding advice for leadership and business you'll ever find (IMHO).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Infinite_Game

https://simonsinek.com/books/the-infinite-game/

When scrolling down I noticed that Aurora is based on Universal Blue (https://universal-blue.org/), a initiative to create Linux distributions based on the same containerization tech which sits behind the likes of Docker and Podman.

You might find some extensive answers to your questions in the bootc documentation which is the container runtime running at the core of Aurora and other Universal Blue distributions, like the increasingly popular distribution Bazzite for Linux based gaming.

https://bootc-dev.github.io/bootc/

Certainly.

KVM (standard Linux kernel feature) will get you virtualization. On top of that there's a hardware virtualization feature which is called IOMMU (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Input%E2%80%93output_memory_ma...) allowing you to "detach" physical hardware from your host PC and assign it to a VM. This allows you to run a operating system (in this case Windows) inside a virtual machine, but it can use the physical GPU for graphics acceleration because you attached the GPU to it.

When you attach the GPU to it, the VM will also behave like a "real" PC meaning it will discover your graphics card as one of its installed devices and will ask you to install AMD or Nvidia drivers (depending on what hardware you assigned to it) on the virtualized Windows system.

Although it's a bit easier and less tricky on a laptop with 2 GPUs (a integrated GPU embedded with the CPU and a discrete GPU for example) it is also very much possible on a system with a single integrated or discrete GPU.

The only thing you will need to consider on a single GPU configuration is that all GPU acceleration on the host will be gone as long as the GPU is deattached from the host, and it will solely depend on the frame buffer for graphics output (so in this particular case you should not run apps requiring 3D acceleration and the GPU accelerated VM on the host at the same time).

When you have two GPUs you can use one for applications on the host and the other for GPU acceleration in the virtual machine, which means you can run 3D accelerated apps on the host, and a GPU accelerated virtual machine at the same time.

Do note however that you can't run any Windows games with kernel level anti cheat this way, that cat and mouse game has been played and lost. A lot of other use cases will work fine, though.

Framework 13 with the Ryzen AI 5 340 and 2.2K display costs around $900. https://frame.work/laptop13

Add RAM and SSD from a third party, e.g. Amazon, which saves you some money.

Also note that since it's a Framework laptop you can always upgrade the mainboard and display later when you want to.

The cheapest full setup will be around ~1300 (including RAM, storage and all necessary accessories like the expansion cards for external IO).

Also note that if you can set aside ~32 Gb of RAM for virtual machine usage you can run Linux with potentially a GPU accelerated VM containing Windows on this thing which allows you to run native Windows (not simulated, like in WINE) and thus native Windows apps on top of Linux on pretty much bare metal speeds.

Microsoft can tell your boss a hell of a lot more about your work habits when you work at a org which rolled out M365 and Office 365:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-viva/insights

There's a little feature flag command line trickery to toggle Manifest v2 which should still work on mainline 140+ onwards.

According to the source code and Gerrit this hasn't been patched out yet:

--disable-features=ExtensionManifestV2Unsupported,ExtensionManifestV2Disable

Unless you mess with feature flags uBO doesn't work on mainline Chrome/Chromium anymore because Google officially dropped Manifest v2 support. (And thus they can kill the involved feature flags and patch out the code any moment they want).

The only way to more or less reliably use uBO is by installing Ungoogled Chromium, because the minute Google completely patches out Manifest v2 support they will patch it back in.