Month November 2025

Is Nouveau finally better than Nvidia’s own drivers?

For years, Nvidia has produced second-rate Linux drivers. They cause problems with SecureBoot, they don’t work with multiple monitors, they flicker, they don’t manage framebuffers properly, they hang for no reason… The list of problems people have had are endless.…

Virtual 5.1 or 7.1 surround on Linux

So, what a lot of people don’t realise is that when they buy those snazzy 5.1 or 7.1 surround gaming headphones, they’re not actually buying headphones with 6 or 8 tiny little speakers in them. What they’re actually buying is…

Working with chatbots…

I have to work with chatbots every day now for my role. It’s not something I specifically sought out, and isn’t something I was especially hoping to do in my later life, but here I am. It makes me wonder…

Should I post more?

I had hoped that I’d find a more convenient way of writing into this blog. I’m not a diary keeper or a writer, normally, but I’ve been hacking about with things, running into problems and finding novel solutions to things…