3 open source creative apps that convinced me to ditch Photoshop
…So I eventually canceled everything , but didn’t end up compromising as much as I’d expected to. My first stop was GIMP, like most people. And despite my gripes with the…
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Notion, Obsidian, and Apple Notes all lost to a plain folder of markdown files
…The free tier is decent for solo use but caps file size and page history at limits you'll eventually hit, and the more advanced features start at around $10 a month…
Wine has been translating Windows games to Linux since 1993, but Proton is what made it effortless
…mutexes, semaphores, events, and the like. They're baked deep into the Windows kernel, and games rely on them heavily. Windows games assume these primitives work exactly as Windows implements them, with…
I turned my dusty Chromecast into a $250 smart home hub replacement
…You'll find that the session eventually times out or your phone battery dies, and the screen reverts to ambient mode, which is great to have pretty pictures but not very good…
I downgraded to free Claude for a week, and it changed how I feel about paying $20 a month
…Sign in to your XDA account Claude is the only AI subscription that's outlasted everything else in my stack this year. I've cycled through and dropped a fair few others…
Claude Cowork handles my admin work so well that I stopped doing it myself
…The setup, the caveats, and who Cowork is actually for Cowork is Claude’s desktop agent - you need the desktop app and at least a Pro subscription , it’s not on the…
I've been running some of the biggest open-weight LLMs for free on Nvidia's cloud
…When Nvidia hosts MiniMax M2.7, the weights are published, the architecture is documented, and the only thing you're really paying for, if you eventually decide to self-host it, is…
I added these MCP servers to my local LLM stack, and one of them replaces a $249 paid tool
…search without a Perplexity Pro subscription or a Tavily API key. That one always stays loaded. Context7 is the other carry-over. Upstash maintains it, and it gives any model fresh library…
6 reasons I'm buying HDDs, not SSDs
…I'll also look at the next size(s) up because I'll need those eventually, and sometimes those are more affordable per GB of storage than the drives I need. When…
Google's AI isn't losing, it's just hiding the best features where nobody looks
…Labs is Google's experimental playground and it's where features and new tools get quietly tested. So, pretty much every feature that eventually makes it your way started there first. For…