In the pursuit of innovation, the technology sector often falls into the trap of over-engineering, creating complex systems that are detrimental to users and developers alike. The solution is to re-embrace a fundamental truth: the most effective solutions are the simple ones, a principle best captured by Occam’s Razor.

Possibly the very first airline lounge at a ferry terminal in China.

While maintaining the http418 cluster, I noticed some machines had outdated kernels, yet apt update && apt upgrade reported everything was up to date. This prompted me to investigate the cause.

Had some free time over the last couple of days to swap in the new SSD and set up the OS and apps. Writing this post right on the X1 Carbon — the keyboard feels amazing!

After debating for ages, my new toy — the ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 11 — is finally here!

While maintaining a CentOS 9 Stream VM, I found and removed a default 1 GiB swap partition. After updating /etc/fstab and rebooting, the machine failed to start. This post details the fix.