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Years after leaving Google Photos, the thing I miss most isn't what I expected
Leaving Google Photos was easier than expected, but saying goodbye to its little surprises wasn't.
I retired my Roku stick for an Android TV box, and I'm not going back
After reclaiming my media experience on with Android TV, I decided to abanndon my Roku stick.
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I built Claude Code's workflow with a local model, and it's surprisingly close
Built my own Claude Code using LM Studio and Hermes.
Your Docker Compose file is probably exposing services that should stay internal
A working Docker setup can still expose more than necessary, and I learned that the hard way.
I stopped using Jellyfin for everything after discovering what VLC can actually do
Quick watch parties are quicker than ever.
A 443,000 drive study just proved one hard drive brand fails twice as often as another
But I won't immediately replace them.
I ran 252 questions through three local LLMs, and a messy reasoning trace says nothing about the answer
There's a reason OpenAI hides reasoning traces, and it's not just because of distillation.
After years of rumors, Apple has finally revealed its foldable iPhone Duo â and it starts at $2000
The "one more thing" moment is back.
Windows hides its fastest power plan from most PCs, and unlocking it takes one line
Ultimate performance at your disposal
Apple's new iPhone 18 Pro features a variable aperture and a huge battery life upgrade
The tech giant's latest high-end phone has arrived, and it looks a lot like the iPhone 17 Pro with a few key new features.
My speed tests were perfect, but my connection still felt awful, and one queueing setting explained it all
After trying nearly everything, I figured out bufferbloat was the problem
I ditched Ollama for Jan after realizing what I actually wanted from local AI
Jan solved the one problem Ollama never had, and now I can't go back
I lost my entire Jellyfin server to a dead drive, but my real mistake was the backup I thought I had
My backup was useless until I stopped backing up the wrong thing
I changed one Android Auto setting, and I don't miss the bottom taskbar at all now
Toggling Quick Controls no longer moves the taskbar with every vehicle.
Every ESP32 program you've written has been ignoring half the chip
Your code can run on the second core, too
I stopped hitting Claude's rate limits after turning my Obsidian vault into its cache
I didn't set this up to save on rate limits, it just turned out to be a happy consequence of my setup
I stripped my old office PC down to one job, and it killed three monthly subscriptions
The PC does less now. That's exactly why it's worth more.
9 incredible games that are now abandonware, and cost nothing to play
Licensing woes may have turned these gems into digital ghosts we canât officially buy, but abandonware sites are a guilt-free way of playing them.
I debloated Windows 11 without breaking anything, and here's what I deliberately left alone
How much do you trust the debloater you got from GitHub?
I stopped using Google Maps on Android Auto after trying Waze's best driving feature
Waze's planned drives feature solved a problem Google Maps didn't even know I had.
