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Worms on PC (1995): A Dad’s Return to Team17’s Turn-Based Artillery
Revisiting Team17’s 1995 Worms on PC. Andy Davidson’s bedroom-coded classic, the hot-seat artillery game that still plays as well as anything on the shelf. Read the guide
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CrackArmor and AppArmor Fixes: What Ubuntu Admins Should Check
Canonical published its AppArmor vulnerability guidance on March 12, 2026. The practical message is simple: install both kernel and userspace updates, then verify your confinement story instead of… Read the guide
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GoldenEye 007 on N64 (1997): A Dad’s Return to the Split-Screen Classic
Revisiting Rare’s 1997 N64 FPS. Nine people made it. Twenty-eight years later, four-way split-screen GoldenEye is still one of the best family gaming nights you can construct. Read the guide
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Real-time Ubuntu Is Free in 26.04: Who Should Actually Use It?
Canonical now says the real-time kernel is freely available from Ubuntu 26.04 onwards. That changes access, not the fact that most Linux users still do not need a… Read the guide
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eBPF Security Policies on Linux: Dynamic Kernel Security Without Recompiles
TL;DR New to Linux kernel security? Start with the What Is eBPF? section below, then jump to Getting Started for hands-on steps. Topic When to Use Key Tool… Read the guide
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RollerCoaster Tycoon (PC, 1999): A Dad’s Return to the Best Sim of Its Era
Revisiting Chris Sawyer’s 1999 PC masterpiece. 99% hand-written x86 assembly, 4+ million copies sold, and still one of the best management games ever made. Read the guide
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Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS Upgrade: Should You Jump to COSMIC?
System76 shipped the Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS upgrade on March 3, 2026. The real question is not whether COSMIC is interesting. It is whether you want your desktop to… Read the guide
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Scan Kubernetes YAML With Kubesec Before Deployment
Run Kubesec against Kubernetes manifests, understand its findings, fix risky securityContext defaults, and add a sensible CI gate. Read the guide
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Quake III Arena (PC, 1999): A Dad’s Return to Pure Multiplayer FPS
Revisiting Quake III Arena, id Software’s 1999 multiplayer FPS. 18 months, 9 people, and a skill ceiling nobody has meaningfully raised since. Read the guide
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Rust Coreutils and sudo-rs on Ubuntu 26.04: Will You Notice the Difference?
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS pushes Rust deeper into the default system path with rust-coreutils and sudo-rs. Here is where admins might notice, where they probably will not, and how… Read the guide
