In defense of swap
January 13th 2026 (week 3 of 2026)"In defense of swap: common misconceptions" is an article by Chris Down, a Linux kernel developer at Meta.
Tag: linux
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Automatically unload inactive tabs in Firefox
January 12th 2026 (week 3 of 2026)Even if you are using a completely reasonable amount of tabs, say around a thousand, memory usage of Firefox may grow over time. Tab unloading to the rescue!
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Brother DCP-1610W on Arch Linux
December 25th 2025 (week 52 of 2025)DCP-1610W is a printer-scanner combo produced by the Brother company. It is a good choice if you need a reliable black-and-white laser printer that works well on Linux.
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2009 interview with UNIGINE by Phoronix
December 16th 2025 (week 51 of 2025)Here is the link.
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run0 devoured my disk!
December 13th 2025 (week 50 of 2025)How I got slapped with a "No space left on device" when trying to run with elevated privileges, and what I did about it.
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Upgrading PostgreSQL with
December 10th 2025 (week 50 of 2025)pg_upgradeUpgrading PostgreSQL from one major version to another requires some extra steps.
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AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT
November 28th 2025 (week 48 of 2025)I bought a new graphics card.
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GNU Guix and its directories
October 14th 2025 (week 42 of 2025)GNU Guix needs two main directories to run:
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Fat Android filenames
October 3rd 2025 (week 40 of 2025)Not all file names that can be used on Linux can be used on Android. Beware the
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Sixel and viu
September 16th 2025 (week 38 of 2025)Graphics in terminal? That is crazy talk!
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The Tragedy of systemd
September 2nd 2025 (week 36 of 2025)I quite like systemd.
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btrfs
August 31st 2025 (week 35 of 2025)I recently changed the way I use my disks, and this involved doing things with btrfs.