A consortium of the major Internet companies — including Google, Twitter, and Facebook — held an emergency meeting on Monday afternoon to discuss the fate of Edward Johnson.
Johnson, the first “Arch-using, Vegan, Steam Deck owning, Rust programmer”, was facing a potential complete banning from the entire Internet.
gnomed - verb - When installing one piece of software results in the forced install of an entire Desktop Environment.
Example: "I installed a text editor, then my whole system got GNOMED!"
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GhostBSD Lead says, "We will release the next release of GhostBSD with XLibre due to the upcoming Xorg rebase."
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The KDE project has removed code to support FreeBSD in their login manager saying, "We rely on systemd/logind, so FreeBSD is not supported."
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Ads are filling the entirety of the Web -- websites, podcasts, YouTube videos, etc. -- at an increasing rate. Prices for those ad placements are plummeting. Consumers are desperate to use ad-blockers to make the web palatable. Google (and others) are desperate to break and block ad-blockers. All of which results in... more ads and lower pay for creators.
It's a fascinatingly annoying cycle. And there's only one viable way out of it.
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Those in power with openSUSE make it clear they will not allow me anywhere near anything related to the openSUSE project. Ever. For any reason.
Well, that settles that, then! Guess I won't be contributing to openSUSE! 🤣
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Linux Self Host Up and Running with Cloudflare
Making terrific progress moving off of my hosted vps to a linux box in my home. A looming $350 payment for the next three years was the catalyst for “do I need to pay this, is it time to bring this in house”? I already had the Beelink mini pc, and it’s far faster with more ram than my VPS and the electricity costs are minimal and less than the very reasonable $10/mo of that SSDNODES.COM was charging.
I use docker to partition the vps, and now the Linux Mint machine into “many servers”. When I want to share my work outside my home, that’s where Cloudflare tunnels come in. Exposing ports whether on the vps or on my home router and linux machine is asking for trouble. Cloudflare handles that and more:
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The main difference between chatting with ChatGPT/Claude and AI agents - is that agents can act.
Here's a short video walkthrough where I used the Warp terminal's agent feature to download and burn Linux Mint to a thumbdrive.
I could have asked ChatGPT, been given the command, copy and paste them into my mac. If an error happens, copy/paste back into ChatGPT. And while that workflow has been very useful - just telling the agent "come up with a plan, then execute the plan" and it does the work - is WAY cooler.
Migrated SqlServer off my hosted VPS to local Linux
Life is SO much easier with AI agents. Made relatively quick work of taking my SqlServer that ran in a docker container from my hosted vps to my local linux.
After I ssh'd into my vps, and had Warp make a plan and execute taking the sql server container off line and backing up the volume - I copied the files home with FileZilla. Like a neanderthal, I actually did that work myself.
Then I prompted Warp:
In this dir are two files, a docker compose file and a docker volume backup. These come from my hosted ssdnodes.com vps. Your task is to migrate these to this machine. ~/docker-containers/sqlserver is where they should live on this computer. Let me know if you understand the task. Make a plan and get my approval before acting.
And Voila! Warp made a plan, executed it, and I was able to login and see my data which is now local.
You can see the highlights of all the steps that warp took here: ...
Whew! It’s been another wild week for Tech News!
Here’s a crazy stat for ya:
We are currently 16 days into 2026, and The Lunduke Journal has already recorded 19 shows (17 of which have been published on every platform, and 2 others to be published this weekend everywhere… but are already available via the MP4 download page). And that’s with taking New Year’s Day off (and getting the flu this week).
It’s a heck of a lot of Tech News, to be sure.
If you only have time to watch a few of shows, I recommend these 3 as being the most interesting (or important… or just… strange) from the last week:
In other words: A pretty gosh-darned crazy week for Linux.
(Those links are to Lunduke.Substack.com, but you can watch all of those shows on any other platform. As always.)
A few other notes on this, most excellent, Friday!
The Lunduke Journal started publishing to TikTok this week. Why? Who knows! Because we can!
If you are a subscriber you can get access to the MP4 download pages (as well as the official forum) by following instructions on the Perks Page.
So, you know, you want one of those.
And, with that, I leave you with a screenshot of the MP4 listing of the shows so far in 2026. Bonkers.
-Lunduke
Holy moly.
This afternoon I sat down to update the 3rd Lunduke Journal Lifetime Subscriber wall — adding in all of you who sent in requests over the last week or so.
And, boy howdy, were there a lot of you! So many, in fact, that the 3rd Lifetime Wall only has room for around 6 or 7 more names (depending on the name lengths)! That’s crazy!
If you want to make it onto “The Lunduke Journal Lifetime Subscriber” Wall number 3… send me an email (bryan at lunduke.com) with the way you would like your name to be displayed.
Or, if you’re not already a Lifetime Subscriber, remedy that for $89. (Which, you know, is a pretty gosh darned good value.) … Then send me that email requesting to be added to the wall.
Once Wall 3 is full, we’ll start in on Wall number 4 (that’s nuts). At the current rate, I expect Wall 4 to debut this week.
And, as always, thank you for your support. Whatever kind of subscription you have, it is deeply appreciated. Monthly, Yearly, or Lifetime. All are amazing. You make The Lunduke Journal possible.
You rule.
-Lunduke
I’ve got the flu (or something else yucky) and need to take the day off tomorrow.
But I don’t really have a normal “boss” to email. Heck, all of you are sort of like my collective boss.
So I’m emailing you:
Boss, *cough cough* Lunduke is out sick tomorrow.
Which means no new shows on Wednesday. Hoping to rest up and be back with new shows on Thursday.
If you’ve missed any shows over the last few weeks, now’s a good chance to catch up.
And feel free to grab one of those fancy-shmancy $89 Lifetime Subscriptions while you’re at it. That won’t make my flu go away any faster… but it definitely won’t hurt.
Unrelated note: Buying stock in Nyquil might not be a bad idea. I think I’m about to increase their profits.
-Lunduke
