Terramaster F4-425 Plus was the first NAS I ever used in my hoemlab setup. It’s a solid device for a NAS. Not too expensive, silent and has a decent operating system. The hybrid HDD+SSD model along with TRAID and built-in backup tools
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Origin is Brave’s stripped-down browser, built for people who never touch most of what the company packages with Brave Browser. It drops the AI assistant, the rewards program, the crypto wallet, and the VPN, leaving the ad and tracker blocking in place.
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When KDE announced that Plasma 6.8 would be dropping the X11 session entirely, not everyone was happy about it. Wayland has been the default on most major distributions for a while now, but there’s still a significant chunk of users with reasons
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Passwords are one of those things everyone knows they should handle better but rarely do. The bare minimum is not reusing them across sites, and beyond that, you really want a password manager doing the heavy lifting for you. If you have
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Mozilla has received plenty of flak for adding AI features to Firefox, like a chatbot in the sidebar, automatic alt text in PDFs, AI-powered tab group suggestions, and whatnot. It’s been one thing after another, and while people might appreciate that these
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If you are someone who has to tackle many emails throughout the day, an email client is most likely part of your workflow. For the uninitiated, these desktop applications let you manage one or more email accounts from a single place without
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If you’ve spent any time poking around the self-hosting world, you’ve likely come across containers. They let you run software in isolated environments that carry their own dependencies, keeping things clean and predictable without the extra weight of a full virtual machine.
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If you want to backup your data on Linux, there’s no shortage of reliable options that offer some pretty good functionality. We have Déjà Dup that handles the basics well if you just want a simple GNOME app that protects your files
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There’s a free demo up on Steam right now, and I took it for a spin.
matrixOS brings OSTree atomic upgrades to Gentoo with a simple motto: “emerge once, deploy everywhere.”