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        <pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 05:35:24 +0000</pubDate>

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                <title>I Put Bazzite on My Gaming PC and I&#039;m Not Sure I&#039;m Going Back to Windows</title>
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                <description><![CDATA[I&#039;ve been saying I should give Linux gaming another shot for a few years now. Today I actually did it, and six hours later I&#039;m sitting here genuinely impressed in a way I didn&#039;t expect. My gaming rig has a spare 2TB SATA SSD that&#039;s been doing nothing, which made this a zero-risk experiment. Windows stays untouched on its own NVMe, and if the whole thing goes sideways, nothing is lost except an afternoon. I chose Bazzite because it&#039;s built specifically for gaming and runs on Fedora Atomic, which ...]]></description>
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                <pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2026 04:11:55 +0000</pubDate>
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                <title>Carrying Less, Accessing More</title>
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                <description><![CDATA[Over the last year or so, my relationship with travel technology has been quietly shifting. It started as a pretty straightforward pack lighter project, but it&#039;s turned into something more interesting; connected to how I think about stress, attention, and what I actually want technology to do for me as I get older. For most of my career, I approached travel the way I&#039;d approach infrastructure: plan for failure, build in redundancy, carry optionality. Extra chargers, backup batteries, multiple ca...]]></description>
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                <pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 21:28:37 +0000</pubDate>
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                <title>My &quot;Dead&quot; Crucial SSDs Weren&#039;t Dead — They Just Needed a Better Cable and a Firmware Update</title>
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                <description><![CDATA[A couple years ago, after a macOS update I honestly can&#039;t remember anymore, two of my external SSDs became unreadable almost at the same time. Not one — two. Both encrypted APFS volumes. Both completely unreachable. I assumed the worst, threw them in a drawer, and moved on. Fast forward to now, where SSD prices are painful enough that just replace them felt a lot less appealing than it used to. Since both drives had failed in basically the same way, I figured it was worth taking one more look be...]]></description>
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                <pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 21:02:27 +0000</pubDate>
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