The Lenovo ThinkPad T490 is a great laptop, but it comes with some discrete GPU challenges.

Fedora 17’s code name was Beefy Miracle and it had a great mascot. You can see it at boot time with a few quick changes.

My new T490 with a 10th generation Intel CPU and a discrete NVIDIA MX250 has arrived! Installing Linux creates some interesting challenges.

Openshift (and Kubernetes) allow you to run jobs on schedule, but these jobs can fail from time to time. You can monitor them from bash!

Monitor the power consumption of your CyberPower UPS and display the live output in your Linux desktop’s status bar.

Lower your CPU usage and increase battery life when you watch certain videos by using Chromium with VAAPI support.

All of your GNOME and gtk applications are configured in i3 with a few simple tricks.

Monit is a tried-and-true monitoring daemon that is easy to deploy. Add it to OpenShift to make monitoring even easier.

Many cloud providers give you lots of memory with each instance and you can speed up tests and builds by using a ramdisk.

Buildah and podman work well with the vfs storage driver, but the default mount options can cause problems.