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.
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.
Git tags are perfect for marking releases — and VS Code supports them, if you know where to look. Here’s how to create annotated tags, what the mysterious double prompt means, and why your tag isn’t showing up on GitHub.
Merging one Git branch into another is five lines on the command line — and a small treasure hunt in the VS Code UI. Here’s both ways, including where the Merge option is actually hiding.
Every git feature exists in VS Code — checkout, merge, sync, tags. The problem is where they all live. A tour of the three branch menus, the hidden merge option, what “sync” actually does, and how the whole thing could make sense.
F11 is just a convention — plenty of apps never implement it. On KDE Plasma, KWin can force any window into full screen from the outside: Alt+F3, an unbound shortcut worth binding, and Window Rules.
Fedora already ships the Google Chrome repository — disabled. One dnf5 command enables it. Plus: the dnf4 syntax trap in older guides, and why the manual RPM route gets updates after all.
Quick-reference steps for putting an Unreal Engine project under Git with LFS: the .gitignore, the .gitattributes, and committing in the correct order — plus a note on Perforce, Diversion, and Epic’s new Lore.
