In general we follow https://news.itsfoss.com/cachyos-kernel-builder/ . Start with installation $ sudo apt install bpftooland include /usr/sbin in system $PATH variable. [code]$ git clone https://github.com/Nitrux/linux-cachyos-deb $ cd linux-cachyos-deb$ ./cachy-kernel-deb[/code] Script installs all required packages and pops up TUI dialog to configure kernel 6.13.3 and finally proceed with building of packages.
Monthly Archives: February 2025
48TB of Your Own Personal Cloud Storage for Under $300, Amazon’s Best-Seller Hits a New Low
Save 15% on the UGreen NASync 2-Bay desktop to setup your own cloud storage server.
ASUS Releases A Fragrance Mouse So You Can Stop And Smell The Roses
Working an extra long shift can stink but your peripherals don’t have do. Not that I’ve ever had a problem with bad-smelling peripherals. All the same, ASUS is attempting to inject a breath of fresh (or scented) air into the PC peripheral market with its new Fragrance Mouse (MD101), a wireless rodent equipped with an internal fragrance compartment.
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This Blink Video Doorbell Is at Its Lowest Price Ever
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If you’re looking for a budget-friendly smart doorbell, and don’t mind going the pre-owned route, this (Like New) Blink Video Doorbell is now $27.99 (down from $44.99)—its lowest price yet, according to price trackers. Prime members get free shipping, while non-Prime shoppers need to hit the $35 minimum threshold for free delivery.
That “Like New” tag means this device has been refurbished, tested, and certified to work like a fresh-out-of-the-box unit. And to back that up, it comes with the same one-year limited warranty as a brand-new one (so you’re not rolling the dice on reliability).
Available in black or white, the video doorbell connects via 2.4 GHz wifi and offers wired (16-24 VAC) and wireless (AA battery-powered) setups, with Blink claiming up to two years of battery life—though real-world performance varies depending on settings and use. Its 135° horizontal and 80° vertical field of view gives decent coverage (although it’s not the widest out there) with 1080p HD video quality and infrared night vision for after-dark monitoring. It also integrates well with Echo Show devices for live feeds, lets you chat with visitors via two-way audio, and supports custom Alexa routines. That said, it doesn’t work with Google Assistant, Apple HomeKit, or IFTTT, which could feel limiting, notes this PCMag review.
Like most budget smart doorbells, cloud storage requires subscriptions. You get a free 30-day trial, but after that, a $3 per month Basic plan is required to save and share motion-triggered recordings and keep video history (up to 60 days) for a single camera. If you have multiple cameras, the Plus plan ($10/month) covers unlimited devices. If you don’t want to deal with subscriptions, there’s an option for local storage, but you’ll need the Sync Module 2 and a USB drive (up to 256GB), which are sold separately. Without a subscription or the hub, you can still use live view and two-way audio, but only in response to a doorbell press or motion event—no on-demand access to saved footage (so if you miss an event there’s no way to check what happened). At $28, this is an easy buy—but if you want full functionality, you might end up spending more down the line. A new Blink Video Doorbell + Sync Module 2 bundle costs $69.99.
Linux’s FineIBT Protections “Critically Flawed” Until Intel CPUs Appear With FRED
FineIBT is a Linux kernel initiative led by Intel engineers that aimed to combine the best of Intel Control-flow Enforcement Technology (CET) and Control Flow Integrity. FineIBT was merged in 2022 for the Linux 6.2 kernel as an alternative control flow integrity implementation. Some FineIBT weaknesses were previously addressed but now the implementation has been determined to be “critically flawed” at least until next-generation Intel processors appear with FRED…
Elon Musk Rants Incoherently in Sunglasses While X Shadowbans His Pleading Baby Mama
The world’s richest man wants you to know he’s having a lot of fun.
New WinRAR Version Strips Windows Metadata In Privacy Push
WinRAR 7.10 now lets users remove potentially sensitive metadata from downloaded files while preserving core Windows security features. The file compression tool’s latest release introduces a “Zone value only” setting that strips download locations and IP addresses from Windows’ Mark-of-the-Web security flags during file extraction.
The new privacy control, enabled by default, maintains only the basic security zone identifier that triggers Windows’ safety prompts for downloaded files. This change prevents recipients of shared archives from accessing metadata that could reveal where files originated. The update from win.rar GmbH, whose compression software claims 500 million users worldwide, also adds performance improvements through larger memory page support and introduces a dark mode interface.
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Ex-Dragon Age Producer Asks People To Stop Harassing Developers, Gets Predictable Response
When you’ve been on the internet as long as I have, you get the distinct displeasure of watching cycles of toxicity repeat themselves ad nauseam, usually over things that don’t matter in the grand scheme of things. The world is on fire and rather than devoting energy to important matters, a subset of the internet will…
How To Have A Little Respec In Hit RPG Avowed
Part of the appeal of a large-scale role-playing game is customizing your character in ways that compliment your preferred playstyle. But as you play through a sprawling game like Avowed, you may find that the way you like to approach combat or dialogue evolves. As such, you may want to reset your attributes or…
Nissan’s latest desperate gamble—see if Tesla will buy the company
Senior politicians in Japan are not going to let Nissan die easily. The automaker has been struggling for some time now, with an outdated product portfolio, ongoing quarterly losses, and soon, the closure of factories and thousands of layoffs. The Japanese government has been trying to find a suitor and had hoped that Honda would do its patriotic duty and save its rival from extinction.
That deal—one branded “a desperate move” by former Nissan CEO and fugitive from Japanese justice Carlos Ghosn—fell apart last week after Renault demanded a price premium for its shares in Nissan, and Nissan demanded a merger of equals with Honda. In reality, it was always going to be a takeover, with very little in it for Honda in the way of complimentary product lines or access to new technologies.
Today, we learned of yet another desperate move—the former Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga is among a group that is trying to get Tesla to invest in Nissan instead.
Is Eurostack’s ‘European Alternative’ Too Guided by America’s Vision?
Our European correspondent takes a gander at Eurostack’s “European alternative for digital sovereignty” and finds it surprisingly filled with ideas and solutions that seem to come straight out of the United States.
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India’s ‘Human Calculator Kid’ Shatters 6 World Records in a Single Day
One of Aaryan Shukla’s world records is for mentally adding 100 four-digit numbers in 30.9 seconds.
It Took 10 Years For The Makers Of This Blatant Pokémon Rip-Off To Apologize And Pay $15 Million
Pocket Monster: Remake was released back in 2015. The mobile game played almost identically to Pokémon, even using the art, names, and move sets form the existing franchise. A decade later, The Pokémon Company has finally reached a settlement with the Chinese devs behind the rip-off and gotten them to publicly…
One of our favorite power banks is 52 percent off right now
Here’s a great deal on one of our favorite power banks. You can pick up the skinny Baseus Blade for $47.59 with the help of our exclusive code. That’s 52 percent off the regular price of $100.
The power bank is on sale for $70 on Amazon. To get the full discount, you’ll need to clip the 10 percent coupon on the store page. Then, at checkout, be sure to use the code BGAEY8HX to get the full discount.
The Baseus Blade is our pick for the best budget laptop power bank. Thanks to the slim form factor and light weight (it’s just over a pound), it’s easy to slip into a bag next to your laptop. It has a decent array of ports, with two USB-C and two USB-A slots. There’s support for 100W fast charging via the USB-C ports. You can also track charging speed and time on an LED display.
The power bank has a capacity of 20,000mAh, which is enough to charge a fifth-gen iPad Air 1.5 times over or a 14-inch MacBook Pro to 80 percent, per Baseus. In our testing, we found that it could top up a 16-inch MacBook Pro’s battery from 10 percent to 62 percent in just over an hour. You can also use it to juice up a portable games console, such as a Nintendo Switch or Steam Deck.
There’s certainly a trade off compared with beefier power banks that have a larger capacity. But in terms of bang for your buck, the Baseus Blade isn’t bad at all, especially when you factor in the convenience of the slim, 0.7-inch design.
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Nothing Phone (3a) Full Design Revealed In Massive Leak Of Official Renders
A massive specs and image dump of Nothing’s upcoming Phone (3a) and Phone (3a) Pro has presumably been leaked online. From this we can gather that both devices share more in common than not—such as processor, screen size, dimensions, and Glyph notification design. Only a closer inspection finds a vastly different camera setup between the two
Severance May Slowly Be Showing Where This Is All Headed
“Attila” starts to bring Severance‘s myriad plot threads together–and might give us some major clues as to how things will go down.
Google’s ‘Career Dreamer’ Claims It Can Help You Find a Job to Match Your Skills
Artificial intelligence may be threatening to take your job, but the tech can also help you find a new one, Google thinks: It’s just rolled out a new AI-powered tool called “Career Dreamer,” which leverages AI algorithms to help you identify roles that are suited to your skills and experience.
Google says it’s worked with groups including students, recent graduates, adult learners seeking a career change, and veterans to help develop the tool. It’s part of the wider “Grow with Google” portal, which offers a variety of tools and guides for job seekers and businesses—many of which involve some form of AI.
Credit: Lifehacker
This isn’t a full end-to-end job application app, but rather a way of exploring jobs that you’d do well at—and which you might not otherwise have thought of. In the announcement blog post, Grow with Google’s Lisa Gevelber points to a stat from the World Economic Forum: Workers now hold an average of 12 different jobs across their lifetime, and that number’s growing.
“The less traditional your career path is, the harder it can be to frame your previous experiences into one cohesive narrative, or to understand what careers align with your particular skills and strengths,” writes Gevelber.
Tell the AI what you do and the skills you’ve gained.
Credit: Lifehacker
Credit: Lifehacker
Career Dreamer is able to “connect the dots” for you, and you don’t need to invest much time or effort—just tell the tool a bit about your expertise, past work, and interests. From there, you can switch to Gemini to take the next steps, like working on a cover letter. You can try Career Dreamer for free here.
How to use Career Dreamer
Click the Start button, and the first prompt asks you to share a current or previous role.
As you work through the various screens that help Career Dreamer learn a little bit about you, you’ll be asked about the specific tasks you’ve done and the skills you’ve learned along the way—so researched technology trends and written articles, would be two examples from my own career.
You get a Career Identity Statement written for you.
Credit: Lifehacker
Credit: Lifehacker
Eventually you get to a Career Identity Statement, which sums up your career journey so far—from here you can add more previous roles and existing skills, your education history, and any additional (work-related) interests. You can keep regenerating your Career Identity Statement as you go, though it tends to always sound rather generic (and like something you’d see a lot of on Linkedin).
Switch to the Explore Paths tab, and you get a chart of roles you might be interested in—some pulled from recruitment databases, and others thought up by AI. You can click on any of the results for more information about the job, and narrow down the selection based on your experiences, education, skills, and interests.
Career Dreamer tells you the roles you’re suited to.
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Credit: Lifehacker
As AI might soon be able to do the job of telling you how to manage your Windows notifications or how good the Google Pixel 9 Pro Fold is, I thought I’d spin up Career Dreamer myself and see if there were any alternative career paths I could take outside of tech journalism.
I didn’t find the suggestions all that inspiring; it was just the usual obvious alternatives to tech journalism—public relations, technical writing, web developing, editing—but your mileage may vary. Everything is wrapped up in a slick interface and is easy to use, even if the end results are rather generic.
The tool gives you the option to Jump to Gemini, where you can start exploring more about potential roles, brush up your resume, and explore different paths for your career. There’s no way to log into Career Dreamer, but the site should remember your previous session by identifying your browser and device, if you leave and come back.
SEC’s “scorched-earth” lawsuit against Coinbase to be dropped, company says
On Friday, a Coinbase executive declared the “war against crypto” over—”at least as it applies to Coinbase.”
According to Coinbase chief legal officer Paul Grewal, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) plans to drop its lawsuit against the largest US cryptocurrency exchange, as the agency shifts to embrace Donald Trump’s new approach to regulating cryptocurrency in the US.
The SEC sued Coinbase in 2023, accusing Coinbase of “operating its crypto asset trading platform as an unregistered national securities exchange, broker, and clearing agency” and “failing to register the offer and sale of its crypto asset staking-as-a-service program.”
The $230 MacBook Air Is Real, It’s a Steal, and It’s Flying Off the Shelves
A 76% off deal on this Grade A refurbished 2017 MacBook Air means you save over $750 on a genuine Apple laptop in near-mint condition.
‘Neon Genesis Evangelion’ is Getting an Official XR Game with First Installment Coming in 2026
Korea-based studio Pixelity announced it’s currently developing an XR game based on the hit ’90s anime Neon Genesis Evangelion (1995).
Pixelity says in a blogpost it’s signed an official licensing agreement with Studio Khara in Japan to make the XR game. Planned to release in three parts, and based on the story of all 26 episodes of the anime, Pixelity says the first installment is already in production and targeting release in 2026.
If you’re an unwashed Evangelion fan (like us), you already know the score. In short, the anime sparked a massive resurgence of anime in Japan during the 1990s, going on to become a cultural phenomenon that influenced numerous successor anime.
Set in 2015—twenty years ahead of its actual 1995 air date—the story follows Shinji Ikari, who is chosen as a pilot for the humanoid combat weapon Evangelion, humanity’s last line of defense against the Angels mysterious beings attacking the futuristic city of Tokyo-3.
The studio hasn’t mentioned specific platforms yet, although the game is said to allow players to “explore various locations with an immersive XR experience, following the same timeline and events as Neon Genesis Evangelion, while completing missions and enjoying dynamic battles.”
“The game will feature collaboration play elements where players interact with various characters from Evangelion, which is expected to be an attractive point for existing fans. Pixelity aims to provide a dynamic experience typical of action-adventure genres,” the studio says.
Founded in 2017, Pixelity has created a number of VR games, including Puttzzle (2023), Crazyworld VR (2022), and Rise of the Fallen (2018). The studio is also currently working on two other VR games, The Patcher and Teahouse of Souls.
While this isn’t the first time Evangelion has been adapted to VR headsets, it will be the first official at-home game for the series. In 2017, Bandai Namco-backed VR studio ‘Project i Can‘ released the four-player Evangelion VR: The Throne of Souls at VR ZONE in Shinjuku, Japan, which was available there for a limited time.
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