The weekend is a good time to tinker, and there are some thoughtful tools and creations this week that are perfect to explore with a fresh cup of coffee in hand.
New in Showcase
Sync your Passwords - No Cloud! shared by @DeLinuxCo
A practical guide that pairs KeePassXC with Syncthing so you can keep password vaults synced across machines without handing anything to a cloud provider, ideal if you want reproducible, self-hosted security with clear step by step detail.
Active & Updated
Kubernetes Homelab
@Itachixkurosaki reflects on running k3s on Proxmox, the value of constrained Pi clusters for learning, hard-won lessons about actually testing Velero restores, and the utility of the go-velero-manager helper for cleaning up old backups.
Brought a couple Cachy apps to the arch masses - scx-manager & kernel-manager
@Brian_Masinick reports pulling in kernel-manager on EndeavourOS and plans to test it, which is useful context if you are curious how these forked CachyOS tools feel on real Arch-based desktops.
Local capture of entire discussion topic as a single PDF
@ericmarceau documents a simple trick for turning any Discourse topic into a single printable or savable HTML page via Ctrl+P, handy if you like to archive long how-to threads or read them offline as PDFs.
Editing of EPUB files - Mass correction - Removal of mid-word breaks
@benowe1717 and @Itachixkurosaki share concrete leads for automating cleanup of split words in EPUBs, from calibre’s limits to Python NLP scripts and segmentation tools, which is worth a look if you maintain large ebook libraries.
Desktops, Rices & Setups
Ubuntu MATE Resolute Raccoon Wallpaper?
@jmarkus shared their setup with a custom Resolute Raccoon wallpaper derived from their own photography, a clean MATE-friendly backdrop for anyone running 26.04.
The Default Wallpapers for Ubuntu 26.10 is Out [Download Link]
@guiverc shared their setup highlighting the new ubuntu-mate-wallpapers-stonking package and its set of fresh backgrounds discovered via a simple dpkg -L browse.
New Member of the Month
If you have a project, script, homelab, or a desktop you are proud of, drop it in the Showcase or desktop sharing threads so everyone can explore it before next Saturday’s update.
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