You are given free reign over a friend's computer. What's the first thing you do?
- Web browser
- Full disk encryption
- Password manager
- De-enshittification

Distrobox: The Last Frontier of Installing Linux Things Distrobox is a universal way to run virtually any Linux application. Want to install a Debian package on Fedora? Are you tired of Linux distributions screwing around with software or failing to update it? Are you sick and tired of installing every single Linux package under the sun? Here's some of t

Distrobox: The Last Frontier of Installing Linux Things

Motorola News | Motorola's new partnership with GrapheneOS Motorola announces three new B2B solutions at MWC 2026, including GrapheneOS partnership, Moto Analytics and more.

We're happy to announce a long-term partnership with Motorola. We're collaborating on future devices meeting our privacy and security standards with official GrapheneOS support.

motorolanews.com/motorola-thr...

Please read: vt.social/@trafotin/11...

Ly-sec, one of KaOS's developers, comments on a video by Switched to Linux (AKA Tom Murosky) about KaOS.

Lysec, a Noctalia developer, supports Switched to Linux (AKA Tom Murosky), a grifter who uses his platform to spread his extreme politics, hate of LGBTQ+ communities, all with zero research or credibility on Linux. trafotin.com/v/tom-m...

Tom Warren writes "Most of the current and former Xbox employees I’ve spoken to in recent days are relieved that Bond is leaving Microsoft. I’ve heard from multiple sources that Bond has been tough to work with, and built a team structure that meant if you didn’t follow the vision or questioned it, you were out. Most have praised her ability to strike partnerships with companies and developers, though. I wrote in December 2024 that Bond had 'staked her career reputation on the idea of Xbox being everywhere, across multiple platforms and devices.' This also involved carefully managing her image both internally and externally, making her appear to be a gamer like Phil Spencer. In reality, she wasn’t. I understand that Bond’s strategy had been failing internally and been questioned multiple times. Bond had tried to push mobile and cloud over console, to reach potentially millions more Xbox customers, but the result has been a classic case of chasing tomorrow’s customers by neglecting today’s."

2021 Windows 11 reveal/Xbox directs and her line delivery was so robotic, she has to be one of the least genuine people on the planet. Not to mention wasting the 2021 event talking about her dad and using Apple buzzwords like "magical" and "it just works" to kiss up to Panos. 2/2

Everyone has been talking about Phil Spencer leaving Xbox in the last couple days. What I'm more surprised by is nobody except @tomwarren.co.uk mentioning Sarah Bond, responsible for the murder of the Xbox brand alongside Phil. I remember watching her presentations during the... 1/2

"Apple spends 55 billion investing in the CCP in China PER YEAR!"

Yeah, if they don't bribe China, they lose the Chinese market. No exaggeration, this would bankrupt Apple. Of course they will kiss up to China and the US. It's good business sense. Is it morally right? Well...

@distrowatch@mastodon.social: @kde@floss.social It's not really FUD though, is it? If someone wants to run a pure KDE/Plasma system then they're going to need to use PLM. PLM requires systemd. Therefore to run a pure KDE system the user needs PLM. The fact other login managers can be used is a workaround to the problem KDE is introducing. Pointing that out isn't FUD, it's fact. One which KDE is now trying to downplay. And is now engaged in personal attacks against developers for pointing it out. Not a good look, KDE.

DistroWatch throwing away all credibility by giving in to fear and misinformation.

Tom Murosky and Switched to Linux: Misinformation, Hate, and Sadness Let me introduce you to Tom Murosky, a Linux content creator with multiple channels, the most popular being Switched to Linux. He’s been on YouTube for years, uncontested in his misinformation about o...

Video in question: trafotin.com/v/tom-murosky/

The Lunatic's response (who lost it after I mentioned him for 5 seconds): www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhOv...

He's also responsible for generating harassment or spam wasting developer time. It's why most reputable Linux forums ban him.

He's a loon who attempted to doxx me (and failed) after I made a video about a Christian nationalist who grifts politics under the guise of Linux YouTube and complained to him. Now I'm just another member of the woke mafia. If you even have to ask, I question what value you even see.

"KDE improved drag and drop support between Wayland and X11 windows."

That's too technical and too wordy. I prefer "KDE made drag and drop more reliable."

Done. You said everything that needed to be said.

Thanks to the new #discord rules, my favorite videos to watch have been tutorials for local AI generated video, people staring at their cameras for multiple hours, eye contact practice videos, Death Stranding 2 photo mode, and exercises for neck rotation or Temporomandibular Joint (TMJ) relief.

Linux users: haha funny, they put a bash manual in the files

Me: It's time to boycott It's FOSS (@itsfoss.bsky.social) and shame the author Abhishek Prakash for citing the Lunatic Journal. Unbelievable this made it past a review process for you to cite conspiracy theorists.

The Google Labs page for Project Genie with the title: "Project Genie is an early research prototype that lets you create and explore infinitely diverse worlds." Below is a video depicting a woman's hands on an Apple Magic Keyboard with her left hand over WASD and her right hand over the arrow keys.

Google: "You're going to use AI prompts to make video game worlds."

*Shows a "gamer" using a Mac, a Magic Keyboard, and the arrow keys*

"Sway has been falling off because it doesn't have that nice eye candy that a lot of people who want a window manager are looking for."

?????????

It's 2026. If you are telling people to disable secure boot to boot into a Linux distro, maybe they shouldn't being using that distro.

DO NOT TELL PEOPLE DUALBOOT LINUX AND WINDOWS UNLESS YOU HATE THEM. PARTITIONS ARE NOT GOOD ENOUGH. SEPARATE DRIVES ONLY.

Google's Live Translation Fails of 2025 At both Google I/O and Made By Google last year, Google attempted to show off for the umpteenth time their spanking new live translation feature. This time, the Phone by Google app now repeats what you said in another language in your voice, but only if you live in the United States. Unfortunately,

Google's Live Translation Fails of 2025

🚀 Spout2 works on Linux!!! 🚀

A few bugs left to iron out but it works~!

anon on YouTube writes "This is old but after checking a few of those vids I’m sure this guy has some sort of relationship with red hat. The GNOME flatpak Fedora propaganda is real."

Framing this and putting it on a wall.

I actually know his name and spoke with him for 3 hours. Good riddance middle click pasting.

Only Linux diehards would get mad over something petty like middle paste clicking.

Did you know: an undocumented part of Siri Shortcuts is only 1 shortcut can be set as a login item. Adding another will silently fail. #apple #mac

Siri Shortcuts on macOS Tahoe with the shortcut's secondary menu showing "Open at Login"

I'm currently experimenting with Siri Shortcuts to automate updates via Homebrew on some Macs I have access to. You can setup specific Siri Shortcuts to activate upon login. #mac #apple

What Not to Recommend to Flatpak Users Whenever I browse through the web, I find many “tips and tricks” from various blog writers, YouTubers and others who recommend users to take steps that either they aren’t supposed to, or have better a...

Shout out to the Evil Skeleton, who blogged about this 3 years ago. tesk.page/2022/09/28/w...

GNOME Calculator launched using the fish shell.

Except you can add `/var/lib/flatpak/exports/bin` to your $PATH. This way, you can type `com example.Application` in your terminal, dmenu, everywhere. Also if you aren't using completions and insist on doing everything in the terminal, you have bigger problems.

"I will never use Flatpaks because I have to type `flatpak run com.example.Application`. It's insane Flatpak developers don't change it!"

The iPhone Air Is a Scam YouTube video by Trafotin

The iPhone Air Is a Scam youtube.com/watch?v=pBHE...

~/.config/systemd/user/podman-restart.service ``` [Unit] Description=Podman Start All Containers StartLimitIntervalSec=0 Wants=network-online.target After=network-online.target [Service] Type=oneshot RemainAfterExit=true #ExecStart=/usr/bin/podman start --all #ExecStop=/usr/bin/podman stop --all ExecStart=/usr/bin/podman run -p 80:80 -p 443:443 -d --name trafotin trafotin [Install] WantedBy=default.target ```

Does anyone know how to actually setup #podman auto updates the right way??

#docker