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I ditched my favorite to-do app for a Linux terminal—here's what surprised me  How-To Geek

Proton VPN reveals major Linux makeover – both for GUI and CLI users  TechRadar

Friday 72-year-old Richard Stallman made a two-hour-and-20-minutes appearance at the Georgia Institute of Technology, talking about everything from AI and connected cars to smartphones, age verfication laws, and his favorite Linux distro. But early on, Stallman also told the audience how "I despise DRM...I don't want any copy of anything with DRM. Whatever it is, I never want it so badly that I would bow down to DRM." (So he doesn't use Spotify or Netflix...) This led to an interesting moment when someone asked him later if we have an ethical obligation to avoid piracy.. First Stallman swapped in his preferred phrase, "forbidden sharing"... "I won't use the word piracy to refer to sharing. Sharing is good and it should be lawful. Those laws are wrong. Copyright as it is now is an injustice." Stallman said "I don't hesitate to share copies of anything," but added that "I don't have copies of non-free software, because I'm disgusted by it." After a pause, he added this. "Just because there is a law to to give some people unjust power, that doesn't mean breaking that law becomes wrong.... "Dividing people by forbidding them to help each other is nasty." And later Stallman was asked how he watches movies, if he's opposed to DRM-heavy sites like Netflix, and the DRM in Blu-ray discs? "The only way I can see a movie is if I get a file — you know, like an MP4 file or MKV file. And I would get that, I suppose, by copying from somebody else." "Sharing is good. Stopping people from sharing is evil."

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The Unbreakable Desktop: How Vanilla OS Is Engineering a Safer, Simpler Linux for the Masses  WebProNews

Mesa 25.3.4 released with more bug fixes for open source Linux graphics drivers  GamingOnLinux

How To Install NPM Linux  About Chromebooks

AMDGPU Patches Updated For HDMI Gaming Features On Linux With Radeon Graphics  Phoronix

New Patches Aim To Lower Linux Memory Use For Swap, Slightly Improve Performance  [H]ard|Forum

New Patches Aim To Lower Linux Memory Use For Swap, Slightly Improve Performance  [H]ard|Forum

Linux Kernel Contributors And Lines of Code Statistics 2026  commandlinux.com

Banjo-Kazooie gets a native PC port with Linux / Steam Deck support  GamingOnLinux

LG Gram Style 14 Laptop To See Working Speaker Support With Linux 7.0  Phoronix

GE-Proton 10-29 released with updates to FEX, Wine, DXVK and a few game fixes  GamingOnLinux

ASRock Rack PAUL PCIe IPMI Card Sees DT Patches For The Mainline Linux Kernel  Phoronix

New Patches Aim To Lower Linux Memory Use For Swap, Slightly Improve Performance  Phoronix

Elegance Linux Emerges as Work-Ready Powerhouse  findarticles.com

I found a new Linux distro that's a productivity powerhouse right out of the box  ZDNET

Earlier this month, the media site Press Gazette reported that now Google "is increasingly prioritising AI summaries, X posts and Youtube videos" on its "Discover" feed (which appears on the leftmost homescreen page of many Android phones and the Google app's homepage). "The changes could be devastating for publishers who rely heavily on Discover for referral traffic. And it looks set to accelerate a global trend of declining traffic to publishers from both Google search and Discover." Xavi Beumala from website analytics platform Marfeel warned in a research update: "Google Discover is no longer a publisher-first surface. It's becoming an AI platform with YouTube and X absorbing real estate that once went to newsrooms..." [They warn later that "This is not a marginal UI experiment. It is a reallocation of feed real estate away from links and toward inline Youtube plays and generated summaries."] Google says it prioritises "helpful, reliable, people-first content". Unlike Google News, there is no requirement that Google Discover showcases bona fide publisher websites. In recent months fake news stories published by fraudulent website publishers have been promoted on Google Discover, reaping tens of millions of clicks. Google said it was working on a "fix" for this issue... Facebook, Instagram and Tiktok content may also start flowing into the Discover feed in future. When Google announced the addition of posts from X, Instagram and Youtube Shorts in September, it said there would be "more platforms to come".

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I love this Linux handheld computer, and you can help fund it right now  XDA

Callan Associates updates a “periodic table” annually with the relative performance of 9 major asset classes over the last 20 years. Above is the most recent snapshot of 2006-2025, which you can find on their website Callan.com. The best performing asset class is listed at the top, and it sorts downward until you have the worst performing asset. I find it easiest to focus on a specific Asset Class (Color) and then visually noting how its relative performance bounces around.

The Callan Periodic Table of Investment Returns conveys the strong case for diversification across asset classes (stocks vs. bonds), capitalizations (large vs. small), and equity markets (U.S. vs. global ex-U.S.). The Table highlights the uncertainty inherent in all capital markets. Rankings change every year. Also noteworthy is the difference between absolute and relative performance, as returns for the top-performing asset class span a wide range over the past 20 years.