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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Aug 12, 2025

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Linus Torvalds Ranting and Intel Layoffs Impact Maintainers

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Open Hardware/Modding: Compulab, Amiga, and More

Hardware picks
today's howtos

half a dozen howtos for today
Dark mode improvements in Plasma

Dark mode has been available in Plasma for quite a while now but the next release explores new areas where it can be taken one step further
Android Leftovers

Your Sony TV is finally getting its Android TV 14 upgrade — here’s who qualifies
Free and Open Source Software, howtos and Installations

This is free and open source software
Paper 7 Is an Open-Source E-Paper Frame with a Spectra 6 Display

Paper 7 is a 7-inch open-source e-paper frame with a Spectra 6 color display
Windows vs. Linux: Which Is Best for Your Homelab?

It seems like the fight between Windows and Linux will never end
I tried out these 5 Linux desktop environments that aren't GNOME or KDE, and they're surprisingly decent

When I first stepped into the Linux rabbit hole ages ago
Free and Open Source Software

This is free and open source software
Review: Rhino Linux 2025.3

I have talked about the Rhino Linux project a few times in the past year
XpressReal T3 Compact SBC with Realtek RTD1619B Runs Chromium OS Variant

The XpressReal T3 is designed to run openFyde, a fully open-source Chromium OS variant
GNU/Linux Applications and Hardware Leftovers

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Today in Techrights

Some of the latest articles
9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: August 10th, 2025

The 252nd installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending on August 10th, 2025.

The corresponding text-only bulletin for Monday contains all the text.

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Reality Check About IBM's Louis Grestner, Slopfarms Say He Was IBM CEO for 30 Years!: It is "hallucinating" (lying)
Debt as the New Currency?: Rich people get richer because they take money from the rest of us, if not directly then by compelling us (collectively) to borrow money at a national level, then "invest" in them
EPO People Power - Part XIX - "Berenguer Has Known of Campinos' Substance Abuse First Hand For a Long Time": "You rightfully claimed that Berenguer is Campinos' protegee"
Slopfarms About the "Linux CEO" Linus Torvaldos [sic]: nowadays NVIDIA builds and helps build a giant Ponzi scheme
IBM Layoffs in India, More Coming Soon, Say Apparent Insiders: Threads regarding IBM layoffs
Links 30/12/2025: "Durian Tsunami" and "Unneeded Surgeries": Links for the day
Links 30/12/2025: Social Control Media Detox, Rage Against Slop Wasting People's Productive Capacities: Links for the day
Gemini Links 30/12/2025: Quitting Coffee, Apartment by the Beach, and Strange Retail Ethics: Links for the day
Nintendo and Sony Outsold Microsoft XBox by 15:1!: The mass layoffs indicate Microsoft is aware of this
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Monday, December 29, 2025: IRC logs for Monday, December 29, 2025
Slopfarm: Firing 35,000 Employee is "Saving the Company": "Big Blue" is getting smaller all the time
Vista 11 is "10" (Ten Percent): Some months ago Microsoft openly admitted that it had lost (shed off) hundreds of millions of Windows users
Dealing With Online Pogroms: lawfare funded by third parties
The Year Apple Would Rather Forget: We await further stumbles and falls from Apple (in 2026)
"EU's reform agenda threatens to erase a decade of digital rights": This is really sad for those of us who spent decades promoting and boosting/advocating the EU
Gemini Links 29/12/2025: Earlier "Happy New Year 2026" and "Dead Archivist Society": Links for the day
Links 29/12/2025: Putin Critic Sergei Udaltsov Imprisoned, Cloudflare’s Outages Discussed: Links for the day
LLMs Are Inherently Parasitic, We Need to Treat Them Accordingly: a maintenance burden for those who possess actual intelligence
Links 29/12/2025: Bottled Water Considered Harmful, Cheetos Promoting Nazis in Europe: Links for the day
EPO People Power - Part XVIII - European Patent Office "Paints Itself as Progressive While Literally Being Represented by Cokeheads": To what length/s will German authorities and media (not just in Germany) go to protect the EPO's "precious image"?
What IBM Will Do to Red Hat in the Coming Year or Years: This won't end up well for GNU/Linux as a whole
Not Turning in His Grave: When People Die, Their Corporate Destruction Becomes a "Turnaround": All he did was mass layoffs - a tradition that has not ended since then
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Sunday, December 28, 2025: IRC logs for Sunday, December 28, 2025
Louis Gerstner Has Died, His Legacy of Mass Layoffs at IBM Hasn't: Hagiographies will follow. They will say he "saved" IBM.
Links 29/12/2025: The Sunday Routine, Limits of Memory, and Gemini Vocabulary: Links for the day
Doxing is Illegal in the UK (Even If You're Based in the US): Somebody has just added my identity (name, mugshot etc.) to a "hitlist" site of a political nature, pandering to violent people
Misunderstood Weapons of Censorship: It's cruel world out there. One needs to be aware of these shady activities, including "censorship-as-a-service".
Google Confidently Wrong, Nowadays Defaming People Too: I can relate as people did this to me and to my wife
What Happens When Americans Are Out of Office (Away From Work) for a Week? Vista 11 "Share" Falls to Just 10%.: How's that for slow adoption?
2026 Will Have EPO Focus, People Will See What the EPO is Trying to Hide: We certainly hope people will be held accountable
EPO People Power - Part XVII - Drugged, Stoned, and Drunk at the Office During Working Hours (Campinos Friend and Propaganda Chief Has Long Done This): It's a total disgrace that press all over Europe is still trying to cover this up!
Gemini Links 28/12/2025: Health Ordeals and Discontinued Pedals: Links for the day
Slop About "Linux" Came Only From One Slopfarm This Weekend: Another day has passed with no LLM slop found in our RSS feeds
Links 28/12/2025: 'Digital Detox' and Slop "Backlash Grew Massively in 2025": Links for the day
Links 28/12/2025: "Mass Quitting Apple" and "Generative AI Industry is Fraudulent, Immoral and Dangerous": Links for the day
Links 28/12/2025: Fascination, Holidays, and Mormonism: Links for the day
Microsoft's Weapon Against the Reality of XBox (the Console) Dying Seems to be LLM Slop: XBox is dead/dying
Raffles for the Immaterial: Unauthorised Bingo for Red Hat "Vouchers": This is IBM and some slop images
Andy Farnell on Standing Up Against Technological Oppression: some portions from it
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Saturday, December 27, 2025: IRC logs for Saturday, December 27, 2025