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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jul 25, 2026

Techrights Turns 18

Techrights Turns 18

Updated This Past Day

  1. Stop believing these myths about Qubes OS. It's much easier than you think
    If you've heard of Qubes, you've probably heard about its steep hardware requirements or difficulty of use
  2. GNU/Linux Measured at 5.3% in Costa Rica [original]
    3 weeks later we see it approaching 6% [...] Almost none can escape the allure of the only potent rival to Vista 11
  3. Four Birds [original]
    there's a mental and physical health benefit

    New

  4. GNU/Linux and BSD Leftovers
    mostly GNU/Linux
  5. Linux Kernel Space Leftovers
    Linux and more
  6. Linux Pays for Bloat
    CVEs galore
  7. Linux Devices and Open Hardware
    hardware centric picks
  8. today's howtos
    Instructionals/Technical picks
  9. Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers
    FOSS leftovers
  10. Web Browsers/Web Servers/Feed Readers News and Videos
    mostly Mozilla
  11. Software Freedom / Digital Sovereignty
    "Digital Independence" drives
  12. Programming Leftovers
    Development related picks
  13. Security Leftovers
    Security related picks or news
  14. Red Hat and Fedora Leftovers
    mostly Red Hat blog
  15. CIQ and AlmaLinux: RHEL Clones and Security Sales Pitch
    pair of items
  16. Fedora 44 templates available for Qubes OS 4.3, Qubes OS Summit 2026
    Some Qubes news
  17. XFS Weakness Impacts RHEL and Related Distros
    Dubbed RefluXFS by the Qualys
  18. Red Hat on Slop and Servers
    mostly from redhat.com
  19. Games: Space Battles, Proton, Steam Machine with SteamOS Linux, and More
    mostly GamingOnLinux
  20. Mike Masnick Was Right About Lady Streisand [original]
    Lady Streisand shows this approach can backfire
  21. Ubuntu Touch OTA 2.0 Officially Released for Supported Linux Phones and Tablets
    Ubuntu Touch OTA 2.0 rolls out with support for Nothing Phone (1) and Zinwa Q25, the ability to adapt for device notches and rounded corners, improved web compatibility, and more.
  22. 8 Years Without Flying [original]
    It used to be an annual thing
  23. Linuxiac is Dead. It's a Slopfarm Composed With LLMs. [original]
    We won't link to it, we're done [...] If you wish to support journalism about GNU/Linux, do not visit or link to slop
  24. Slop Versus Free Software and Linux
    4 picks
  25. All About Proton
    Linux gaming has come a long way
  26. The smallest desktop OS you’ve never heard of
    KolibriOS is an open-source project that brings you an entire operating system in just over a megabyte
  27. Sega Dreamcast and Linux Gaming
    The funny thing about following Linux development is that you learn the kernel is compatible with more hardware than you originally thought
  28. My Linux laptop runs better now that I treat it like a server
    My Linux machines are either running Proxmox or they're running CachyOS with bleeding-edge desktop software and the latest in hardware
  29. Immutable Linux distros are not the only way to build a system you can't break
    Immutable Linux distros absolutely deserve all of the attention they get
  30. Fedora quietly turned into a serious gaming distro while everyone argued about Ubuntu
    If you had gathered a congregation of Linux gamers into a single room and asked them which distro they use
  31. I switched from Zorin to elementary OS for a Mac-like PC experience I never expected
    When it comes to finding the perfect Linux distro
  32. LibreOffice 26.2.5 Open-Source Office Suite Released with More Than 20 Bug Fixes
    LibreOffice 26.2.5 is now available for download as the fifth point release to the LibreOffice 26.2 office suite series with 21 bug fixes.
  33. 5 signs you're using the wrong Linux distro
    Linux isn't really just one operating system. It's the bones of an operating system
  34. This single KDE Plasma feature solves Linux's biggest multi-monitor frustration
    Instead of treating every display as one large workspace, Plasma now lets each monitor switch independently
  35. Melanoides Tuberculatus [original]
    it has been extremely satisfying (and very easy) to deal with these creatures
  36. I'm not upgrading to Windows 11, but I'm not tolerating Linux either
    I love the excitement of a new operating system, but I'm not upgrading my old laptop to Windows 11
  37. Quiting the Addictive Fake 'Social' 'Media' [original]
    Life is too short to be stuck inside a skinnerbox
  38. Share Food and Water [original]
    Sharing is caring
  39. Another Week Comes to an End [original]
    It's Friday already!
  40. Getting Back to 99.99% Reliability/Availability [original]
    We'll soon need to apply some kernel patches, then reboot
  41. Android Leftovers
    Your Android phone is downgrading your Bluetooth headphones, and one developer setting fixes it
  42. Free and Open Source Software
    This is free and open source software
  43. Today in Techrights
    Some of the latest articles
    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Friday contains all the text.

    Top-read articles (excluding bot/crawler visits):

    Span from 2026-07-18 to 2026-07-24
    1560 /n/2024/09/01/Back_To_School_With_Linux.1.shtml
    1095 /n/2026/07/06/GNU_Linux_Leftovers.shtml

Other Recent Techrights' Posts

The Register MS Made Millions of Pounds by Participating in the Slop Hype Campaign (It's Still Doing It), Now It Admits That It's Just a Bubble
the slop frenzy played a role in the Microsoft meltdown
Intercontinental Brigading - Part XXXXX - Pyramid Schemes (Planned Plunder) and Canceled/Botched Surgeries Aren't "Funny", They Cause Serious Harm and Distress
We were right about Microsoft
The Real Issue With The Register MS is Not the Politics of Some Staff's "Tweets", It's That The Register MS Publishes Fake Articles for Sponsors (50,000 Pounds Minimum)
AWS and Google each pay millions for fake articles which beget journalistic bias too (they literally pay the salaries of the 'reporters')
Microsoft Total Cost of Ownership (TCO): We Need Accountability Because Many People Die and It's Because of Microsoft Diehards or People Bribed by Microsoft to Deploy Microsoft Where Lives Are at Risk
They're trying to save face right now
What the Media Misses: It's Not an NVIDIA Issue, Super Micro Computer Inc Also Fell From $45 to $26 in the Period NVIDIA Lost 33% of Its Faked 'Value', NVIDIA is Collapsing Like Intel
History goes in circles
Waste of Money: Giving More Money to Toothless Regulators That Don't Even Examine Evidence
Shame in SRA
 
Ethics in Perspective, Free Software and Morality
top clients of Jeffrey Epstein are one happy family
Richard Stallman (RMS) at Universidad Central del Ecuador (Guayaquil), Cuenca, Campus Sur Universidad Politecnica Salesiana (Quito), and Ohio State University
Long live the message and mission of RMS
They Paid Workers in 'Shares' (That Lost Almost Half Their Value in One Month)
Welcome back 1999 or 2007
Links 14/11/2026: "OpenAI Is Sustaining Enormous Losses" and Slop "Loses the Popular Vote"
Links for the day
Over at Tux Machines...
GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Friday, November 13, 2026
IRC logs for Friday, November 13, 2026
Gemini Links 14/11/2026: Code of Conduct, Back to Gemini, and Gemlog to Inbox
Links for the day
Slop Promotion, Including Paid-for Slop Promotion for So-called 'Linux' Foundation (Its Clients Are Slop Companies)
We've noticed a lot of this lately in "It's FOSS" and to a lesser degree in "FOSS Force"
Gemini Links 13/11/2026: Productivity Metrics and Antenna Outage
Links for the day
It's Not About China or Sex, It's About Corruption at NVIDIA and a Pyramid Scheme Perpetrated Under the Guise of "Hey Hi Revolution" (That Wasn't, It's Manufactured and Hyped by Bribes, Subsidised by Multi-Trillion-Dollar Loans, People's Pension Funds and More)
What's at stake here is a lot bigger than the "Ponzi hub" of Jensen Huang
No, You're Not a "Most Valuable Company" When Everything is Down for Half a Day in the Entire Planet
Still down, still no explanation (maybe they too aren't sure)
"Techrights Statement on Phoronix" Still Valid Five Years Later
Our position as stated in early 2022 has not changed
Vista 11's 'Growth' Has Stalled, It's Measured at Only 17.9% in the US This Year
That helps put in perspective Microsoft's attempt to discard almost 30% of its remaining workforce
"NVIDIA is Enron" (Subsidising the Pyramid Scheme That It Profited From), Microsoft is Next to be Down for the Count
Microsoft increasingly looks like the "next NVIDIA"
Richard Stallman Travels to South America to Give Talks About Free Software in Spanish, FSF Raises Money
The FSF is raising money (goal is $400,000) and the FSF has just mentioned the upcoming talks by the FSF's founder
United States Adding ~300 Billion in Government Debt Per Month, Wall Street Shaves Off Trillions in 'Value' in Less Than One Week
cushioning "assets" by helping them fake "value"
Microsoft: Pay Us for the Stuff That's Offline and We Cannot Fix
Learn to take control of the technology that you rely on
Links 13/11/2026: "Copyright-Strike-for-Hire" and "Stevie Wonder Photo Lawsuit"
Links for the day
The Slop Bubble (or Pyramid Scheme) Relied on Trust and Patience (Being Patient as Losses Grow and Debt Explodes, Trusting the Roadmap of Cheaters and Frauds)
Remember that it all began with trust
Anthropic's IPO Depends on $895.4 Billion in Debt (Money It Doesn't Have, It Loses Over 100 Billion Dollars Per Reporting Period), NVIDIA Has Just Lost Almost 2 Trillion Dollars In Value and Its Debt Trebled in Three Months
This coming week will be very, very entertaining for slop critics/sceptics to watch
At Microsoft, "Buyouts" or "Global Voluntary Separation Agreement" (GVSA) Not Much Different From Layoffs (Severance Shockingly Low)
From what we are able to gather, many people are leaving Microsoft 'voluntarily'
Is Microsoft the Next Fake-Valued Corporation to Lose 35% in "Market Value"? Is Slop Bringing Microsoft Down?
Will NDAs prevent people talking or journalists finding out the true cause?
Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) the Latest of Many to Quit Linux Development Over Linus Torvalds' Obsession With Slop (Linus Wants to Work With Bots, Not Humans Who Understand Whatever Code They Write)
Linus caught the 'brain virus'
Silent Layoffs at IBM (and Red Hat) Continue in November 2026
IBM's CEO is "a Palliative Care Doctor Who Slides [IBM] Gently Into the Night"
Microsoft Asks 60,000 Workers to Leave, Some Leave, Services Go Down
Microsoft laid off about 40,000-50,000 people in past years
Gemini Links 13/11/2026: Roku Exits the Smart Home Market and Poor Reporting/Journalism Regarding Slop Plagiarism
Links for the day
Links 13/11/2026: "Apple Support Community Forums to Permanently Close" and "The Slop Market is Getting Nervous"
Links for the day
Over at Tux Machines...
GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Thursday, November 12, 2026
IRC logs for Thursday, November 12, 2026
Gemini Links 12/11/2026: A Firing of a Boss and Geminispace Growing Fast
Links for the day
Bill Epsteingate-Funded BBC "Totally Ignoring the $1.7 Trillion Wiped off NVIDIA Stocks"
Imagine how many pension funds are tied to this NVIDIA pyramid scheme
A Few Hours Before NVIDIA CEO Canned (and NVIDIA Shares Plunged) the NVIDIA-Funded The Register MS Published Paid Spam With "AI" 18 Times in It
Anything to inflate the bubble
Links 11/11/2026: NVIDIA Decapitated, "The Company That Published Fake Journalists in Sports Illustrated is Collapsing Dramatically"
Links for the day
Intercontinental Brigading - Part XXXXIX - We Didn't Start the Fire
It started in 2012
Photo Ops Are Liabilities
NVIDIA is not a "family business" and its CEO isn't some modest genius
NVIDIA’s Total Debt Trebled in Three Months!
Not the hallmark of a rich company unless its accounting is fraudulent
NVIDIA Turns Out to be Serial Cheater, Stock Plunges 33% in 5 Weeks
The "slop bros" have long relied on patience and blind faith
Adopting LLM Slop is Still Suicide
Suicide (in the literal sense) is also linked to adoption of chatbots
On Laundering Licences and Code
A "Second SCO" waiting to happen
The Cyber Show on Slop and the Ministry Of Truth in "Nineteen Eighty Four"
"cultural erasure" by slop
Intercontinental Brigading - Part XXXXVIII - Keeping Both Eyes on the Ball
One upside of these disputes is that they raise at least two very important issues concerning the law
Gemini Links 12/11/2026: Encryption is Easy, Human Emacs, and Legislation in Italy
Links for the day
Over at Tux Machines...
GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, November 11, 2026
IRC logs for Wednesday, November 11, 2026