Bazaar Flatpak manager adds permission warnings showing app safety, Flathub account sync, verified-only filtering, and a neat new 'market stall' app icon.

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Dell revives XPS brand with redesigned 14 and 16-inch laptops. Ubuntu 24.04 support coming to XPS 14 later this year. Details and specs inside.

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This year I decided to go back to my Debian based NUC.

During 2025, my data was scattered all over. Tried using Steam deck as daily driver for awhile. I wrote a physical journal for awhile, before it became tedious. Then I stripped it all and go back to digital journal on a command-line-only raspberry pi. I have some older entries in Joplin, as well as scattered notes in Apple Notes, Google Keep, Dropbox, Pomero DM250, and a few more.

It's time to collect it all to a single device.

A single device to write journal entries, blog, record my personal finance, collect my thoughts in my zettelkasten, and build my second brain.

#Core #Simplify

I was feeling down during the last 2 months of 2025.

I tried to start a new walking habit to be healthier. Just 30 minutes of intermittent walking training on a walking pad. Midway, I missed a day every now and then. A day turn two, then became a week. I can't keep my streak. Never mind I thought, I'll do better in December. Life caught on, and when I failed within the first few days of December, I felt I'm not discipline enough, not having a strong will power like those other people in my Youtube feed. Those "I did x for 30 days when this happened".

I went back to gaming. I gained weight. Uninspired to blog. Watched more Youtube, one video after another, mainly game and movie trailers, and various self-help contents. Then I found this video and it got me thinking.

The thinking leads to another. And another.

By the end of December, I shifted my perspective.

I slowed down.

But slowing down inspired me more. I started to see things differently. I started doing things differently. And it felt fresh.

I can't really summarize my year in a post. My journal entries are scattered because I switched from physical journal back to digital journal mid year. But that's fine. It is what it is.

Instead of a good bye post in 2024, I like to thank you instead.

Happy New Year 2026

What changed in Ubuntu in 2025? From the "oxidisation" of sudo to the end of X11, here's a recap of the 10 biggest changes the distro saw last year.

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What would make 2026 Ubuntu's best year yet? Share your wishlist wants and must-haves, be it bold changes or resolving long-standing bugs. Sound off!

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I roundup a crop of December's smaller Linux app releases, including the Clapper media player, QEMU virtualisation tool, Scribus DTP and ONLYOFFICE.

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