All around the world, people are celebrating Blue Screen of Death Day.
This year's festivities, proudly sponsored by Crowdstrike and Microsoft, kicked off in the wee hours of the morning -- people from all corners of the globe simply could not wait to ring in BSOD Day 2024!
Below are pictures -- from airports and offices... to Times Square -- of how people chose to comemorate the day.
MS representative has confirmed it. Microsoft has made many blunders with Office in the past (Clippy & Ribbon toolbar spring to mind), but this may be the biggest blunder of all.
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The GNOME Desktop Environment feels that "Click the Middle Mouse Button to Paste" is an "X11-ism", moves disable it for bizarre reasons (including political ones).
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HP-UX joins the growing list of classic UNIX systems (like IRIX) which are officially no longer supported or updated.
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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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Let this be your annual reminder to clean your fans even if it's not loud or appearing to have issues.
My laptop has been having odd issues. I installed an aftermarket silent fan back in 2019. It's been great but when it ramps up, you don't really hear it. I checked my temps today and realized my laptop was idling at 60c. I opened the laptop to find a giant ball of lint stuck in the cooling fins. I also was able to resolve a few "bugs" inside. (I really shouldn't take this thing camping with me.)
Anyways, cleaned it out, new thermal paste, now it's idling at 35c and running a lot better.
What follows are the top 5 most viewed Tech News stories, published by The Lunduke Journal, during 2025.
Presented in descending order of views received, starting with the most viewed.
[Links are to Substack, but all stories are freely available on several platforms.]
Installing Linux Software Just Got More... Gay [Nov 24, 2025]
Linus Torvalds Tells Google Dev His “Garbage Code” Should “Get Bent” [Aug 10, 2025]
Leftist Activists Demand Removal of Ruby on Rails Founder, DHH [Sep 26, 2025]
Microsoft’s Goal: Replace “Every Line of C” with Rust by 2030? [Dec 26, 2025]
Use Firefox? Mozilla Says it Can Use Your Data However it Wants. [Feb 27, 2025]
And, just for the sake of posterity, here are the next most viewed stories, 5 through 10.
Wikipedia Made $184 Million in 2025, Spent $3.4 Million on Hosting [Dec 5, 2025]
Cloudflare Rewrote Their Core in Rust, Then Half of the Internet Went Down [Nov 19]
Ubuntu’s Rust GNU Utils Replacement 17x Slower & Buggy [Sep 16]
GNOME Foundation Discusses Refusing Funds from Framework Computer [Oct 17, 2025]
Python Says Discriminatory DEI Policies More Important Than $1.5 Million Dollars [Oct 28]
Of those 10 stories… 4 of them were not reported on by any other major Tech News outlets. And 3 of the other stories were first reported by The Lunduke Journal (and then picked up by other journalists).
That’s… wild.
We know that The Lunduke Journal gets more social media traction and views than any other “Mainstream” Tech Journalism outlets (including the ones which claim to have “millions” of followers).
While we don’t know the current exact viewership numbers of the other major Tech Journalists out there, based on all available numbers it would appear that these are among the most viewed Tech News stories from any publisher.
Period.
Which means that this list of “Top Tech News of 2025” is about as close to definitive as we’re likely to get.
While we’re at it, for the sake of massive transparency, here are detailed statistics for The Lunduke Journal for last month. (Something the other big Tech News outlets would be terrified to reveal.)
Here’s some Lunduke Journal stats for December, 2025:
14.9 Million views (or listens) during the last month (December).
151,224 free subscribers (not including audio podcast feeds).
2,196 new free subscribers on the primary platforms.
342 shows, in total, in 2025.
$0.00 (zero) taken from any corporation.
December is, typically, the most quiet month for Tech Journalism. Fewer big stories. Lots of people on vacation. “View” numbers are, almost always, significantly lower than a typical month.
Despite that, The Lunduke Journal had a pretty stellar month in December of 2025. Second biggest month of the year (only slightly behind the previous month, which set multiple records), clocking in at just shy of 15 million “views”.
I’ll take it.
Total Free Subscribers also saw pretty decent growth, considering it was December (“the quiet month”), of over 2,000 new subscribers. Now topping 150,000.
A huge thank you, as always, to the amazing subscribers to The Lunduke Journal.
None of this work would be possible without you.
-Lunduke
Woah!
The end of December is almost here!
That means the “$89 Lifetime Lunduke Journal Subscription” deal is about to end!
When the ball drops on New Years Eve, and the calendar clocks over to 2026, the Lifetime Subscription price goes back to normal.
So, you know, grab one before that darn ball drops! (Then check out all of the Lunduke Journal Subscriber Perks.)
Because that deal is re-DONK-u-lous.
-Lunduke
Two quick tidbits on this glorious Sunday:
Lifetime Subscriptions to The Lunduke Journal are currently discounted to $89. For life. Which is… insane. That’s less than 1/3rd of the regular price.
Monthly and Yearly subscriptions are 50% off. Which is also pretty darned snazzy.
On Tuesday I will be recording a long-overdue episode of “Lunduke’s Nerdy Q&A”.
Got questions you’d like asked in the show? No guarantees, but I’ll get to as many as I can!
Retro computing. Current computer news. Ridiculous hypotheticals. Any question is fair game... just make sure it’s good and nerdy.
To make it simple for me, there are two ways you can submit questions for this week’s Q&A:
Add a comment to this thread on Forum.Lunduke.com.
Reply to this thread over on X.
Ok. I lied. There are three ways. You can also reply to this post, right here, on Locals.
Note: Only Lunduke Journal subscribers can access to Forum.Lunduke.com. All of the details on how to gain access are on the Lunduke Journal Subscriber Perks page.
-Lunduke
