Firefox running but no window in sight? When macOS restores an app window to coordinates that no longer exist, here’s a whole toolbox of fixes – including the little-known Window – Move to Display option that saved the day.
Substance Painter is one of the few applications for which Adobe develop a Linux version. It’s possibly a contractual overhang from the Allegorithmic days. Typically we don’t get access to it through the Creative Cloud app, and only special contract holders can download this version from Adobe. However, Steam lets Linux users either download the … Read more
Fedora’s SELinux Alert Browser drowning you in fontconfig write denials on /usr/lib/fontconfig/cache? Here’s why it happens, the one-liner that fixes it, and whether it’ll return after the next upgrade.
Anthropic’s official Claude Desktop app for Linux only ships for Debian and Ubuntu — but Fedora users have three good routes: a Distrobox container running Anthropic’s own package, a community RPM repository, or a one-click install via Discover. Here’s how all three work, which one suits you, and the one Mesa gotcha to know about.
Distrobox is a fascinating project that lets us run apps made for other distributions right on the one we’re using — a Debian app on Fedora, an RPM inside Ubuntu — without a VM, dual-booting, or a second desktop. Under the hood it uses Podman containers, but not the way Docker uses them: instead of … Read more
SMR drives have a terrible reputation — but is it deserved? I copied 533 GB of render output to a WD My Passport 6TB and measured what actually happens. Instead of the infamous cliff, I got a staircase, with real sustained speeds far better than expected.
We do so much in browsers these days, and it’s super easy to get lost with so many tabs open. Despite the best organisational options modern browsers offer us, I prefer a stand-alone app for certain things. Notion is a good example: I really need for it to be a completely separate item so I … Read more
Fifteen years ago, a hosting pro told me to patch my packages and never reboot. He was half right — and the wrong half involves the kernel, deceptive version numbers, and a blind spot in Plesk’s automatic updates. A Saturday morning investigation on my own server, epilogue included.
