Five years after my 2020 Wi-Fi article ended on an unsolved “deal-breaking issue”, the same 2011 MacBook Pro running Fedora 44 finally gave up all its secrets: kmod vs akmod, the WPA3 handshake loop, GUI edits that silently undo nmcli fixes, a 54 to 540 Mbit/s speed arc — and a closing lesson about trusting journalctl over your own memory.
Got an image sitting in your clipboard on Fedora KDE and no obvious way to turn it into a file? One wl-paste command does the trick.
The word “harness” keeps popping up in AI conversations, usually next to OpenClaw, Microsoft’s new Copilot Autopilot or Meta’s Muse. Here’s what it actually means, how the three relate, and what an always-on agent could do for a 3D artist and blogger.
Two Git papercuts, back to back: VS Code’s Publish Branch doing nothing on an empty repo, and the GitHub credentials trap that bites on every new machine. Both have quick fixes — including the one gh auth login often skips.
novelWriter is in the official Fedora repos — but the packaged version is old enough to write a different project file format, which matters a lot if you write on more than one machine. Here’s the pipx route, the enchant2/hunspell step macOS doesn’t need, and how to switch over if you already used dnf.
The DMG builds for novelWriter are gone, and the official pip commands don’t work on modern macOS either. Here’s why, and how pipx fixes it in about five minutes.
Five seconds to pick Fedora or Windows is four seconds too few. Here’s how to give GRUB more time, and – the trick I set up on my Z840 years ago and never wrote down – how to make it boot whatever you chose last time. Two lines, one twist: Fedora already has half of it.
Bluetooth vanished from my Z8 workstation while WiFi on the same card kept working. Instead of shrugging and reaching for wired headphones, I read the crime scene with PowerShell — and learnt that Windows has a dmesg after all. Nobody just tells you where to look.
