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My bookmarks are usually a mess because when I’m researching, the last thing I worry about is how neatly I organize them. I could be researching Obsidian and bookmarking its various features, then trying to connect the main ideas they share. So instead of erasing the folder, I moved it to NotebookLM to make sense out of it all. I thought I was going to get something I wouldn’t be able to work with, but I got a research partner who actually helps me make sense of it.

I think one of my most annoying grievances with Windows 11 is its right-click menus. For some reason, when moving from Windows 10 to 11, some right-click options remained, some got stuffed into a "Show more options" menu, and others still just flat-out didn't appear until you used the legacy right-click menu.

It's easy to assume that, if a program goes open-source, it's 100% safe to download. After all, if it were malicious, people would spot the bad code. Unfortunately, hackers do have ways to hijack supply chains and inject files that look identical in terms of the code, but still contain some nasty malware in the binaries themselves.

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Building a Network-Attached Storage server from old hardware is the best way to repurpose systems that would otherwise gather dust into reliable backup solutions. While you could go for weaker systems released over a decade ago, most DIY NAS setups typically involve x86 machines capable of supporting at least a handful of storage drives.

After dedicating the better part of 2025 to rolling out Copilot across everything it owns, Microsoft is now on a huge quest to address Windows' major pain points in 2026. There's even a reported name for this initiative: Windows K2. It sounds like a new version of the OS, but in reality, it's the company's push to improve the OS they already have in a bid to regain user trust.

I was a very early adopter of the AM4 platform because, at the time, I was part of AMD's influencer team, received pre-release hardware, and was physically at the Zen launch event. At the time, it was a huge jump from the older Intel platform I'd been using, which had DDR3, PCIe 2.0, and a short expected lifespan because of Intel's release cadence. I used that hardware until very recently, and only upgraded when my daily tasks felt slower to accomplish.

I’ve been trying to build websites for quite some time now. The first website I built was a tech blog that I started as a passion project back in 2019. After that, I tried building a portfolio website, a few tools, and some other small projects, but I never really succeeded in getting things to the point I wanted. It usually takes a lot of effort just to get a site up and running.

My Linux journey started with Ubuntu as a test operating system. I played around with hypervisors to get any Linux or alternative OS working. Back then, it wasn't about learning it but simply discovering what a Windows alternative looks like. Slowly, it became a part of my college curriculum, and I used it on both college and personal computers. But today's Ubuntu is wildly different from what I tried 11 years ago. Its design, feature set, and overall package try to appeal to a bigger audience.

When Google first announced Gemini integration inside Google Maps, I honestly thought it was just another AI feature companies add because every app now needs “AI.” I expected a chatbot inside Maps and nothing more.

As AI began to take off, we saw the major operating system developers begin adding their own solutions to their products. On Microsoft's side, we got Copilot, and for Team Apple, they got Apple Intelligence. People who weren't a fan of AI migrated to Linux to escape it, only for the Ubuntu team to announce that its OS will also adopt LLMs.

Like every tech giant, Google is going all in on AI. In fact, the company is pushing into the space so hard that it looks like Chrome is downloading a 4GB file containing details for running Gemini Nano, Google's on-device LLM, according to computer scientist Alexander Hanff (That Privacy Guy), who published the details on his website earlier this week.

Frame generation is, without a doubt, the most polarizing intersection of AI and gaming as we know it today. A vocal majority of enthusiasts can be found clamoring for raw rasterization, and meanwhile, the biggest name in the industry, Nvidia, has a trajectory that suggests that the days of traditional rendering pipelines may be limited. At CES 2026, Team Green bypassed a new discrete GPU architecture for the first time in decades to debut DLSS 4.5, powered by its proprietary second-gen transfor

While I haven't made the full jump from Plex to Jellyfin, I've spent the last few days experimenting with the free, open-source media hosting platform.

AI on the ESP32 often looks very different to the AI that we often talk about in our home labs or on our computers. Typically, it involves TinyML, squeezing a wake-word model into a few hundred kilobytes of flash, or using the ESP32 as a conduit merely collecting input and then outputting the responses. However, those aren't "agents" in the way we refer to them now, but Espressif has changed that with the release of ESP-Claw.

When you are tasked with building the digital storefront for a diamond jewelry manufacturer, the margin of error is thin, and the copy needs to be as precise and brilliant as the stones themselves.

Google-owned Fitbit has revealed a new wearable called the Fitbit Air, a health-tracking band designed to work with Google Health and Health Coach, the tech giant's AI-powered feature that creates "dynamic, tailored fitness plans."

Ever since Microsoft started relentlessly bombarding Windows 11 with intrusive, resource-hogging AI tools and unwanted features, there has been a lot of silent dissatisfaction in the air around the OS, so naturally, Linux is looking attractive to many. The problem is a little more complicated than just getting rid of the main OS and installing a distro on a whim, though.

Claude Code sounds exciting until you realize the best setup changes aren’t the flashy ones. The temptation is to treat it as a magic shortcut that can sprint through a project with a single dramatic prompt. That can work for demos, but real development work is messier than that. Once I started setting it up the way serious users seem to be using it now, the biggest improvements came from the dullest adjustments.

When I started using Home Assistant, I ran way too many automations for the silliest of things. Over time, I pulled back and kept only those automations that felt genuinely useful without making any visually noticeable impact. That helped me avoid flashy but unwanted dashboards and notifications.