The Unknown Universe

I've spent years shouting about privacy. And now, I've installed a tracker. I know. The irony is thick enough to cut, and the hypocrisy probably looks huge from where you're sitting. But for the sake of transparency, hear me out: I needed a pulse check. I

I've been stuck in the Windows ecosystem since version 3.1. Think about the legacy there. You build up a certain kind of muscle memory over three decades that's hard to scrub away. For the longest time, Linux was just a tool in my bag, a server I'd ssh in

If you woke up on 15 July feeling a strange sense of relief, you aren't alone. After months of posturing, rhetoric, and vaguely defined threats toward privacy tools, the UK government has officially confirmed, they will not be limiting access to Virtual P

A few months ago I finally got around to switching my Google Pixel over to GrapheneOS. The install was refreshingly painless, the bootloader re-locked without complaint, and the web installer made the whole process feel almost suspiciously easy. It was th

I've done something I genuinely thought I'd never do again: I installed Windows as the primary OS on my main handheld device, my ROG Ally X. To be clear, my desktop and laptop remain dedicated Linux workstations. I still use CachyOS as my daily driver on

Watching a Prime Minister resign in a flurry of headlines is a classic British distraction. While the news cycle fixates on who's moving into Number 10, the laws they actually passed aren't going anywhere. The "Nude Ultimatum" and the Online Safety Act we

I've spent the morning staring at the news, and I'm honestly just exhausted by it. The UK government is basically banking on us being too comfortable to move. They're betting that because we've spent years building our lives on a few giant corporate platf

We use the AUR for the convenience of native builds without the restrictive containers or overhead of Flatpaks and Snaps. However, that integration comes with a significant security trade-off: we're trusting a stranger's PKGBUILD with root access to our s

The UK government has officially gone off the deep end, giving Apple and Google a three-month ultimatum: build device-level scanning to detect "illegal images" or we'll pass laws to force your hand. They're playing the "child safety" card because it's the

I've been a Plex user since 2012. Back then, I paid around £50 for a lifetime Plex Pass. It felt like a bargain. Plex was a genuinely useful piece of software that solved a problem many of us in the home lab and self-hosting community had: how do you acce