The ESP32 makes more sense than a Raspberry Pi for your smart home
…Pi’s scheduler and background processes can add 100–500ms of latency when an automation triggers. Besides, even a headless Pi OS Lite has a reboot time of about 30–60 seconds…
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I finally audited my smart home after 3 years and found 4 security problems hiding in plain sight
…While the smart home has become more convenient and the set-it-and-forget-it mentality is fully in play, this has left a trail of digital crumbs that hackers and even…
I ran the same SSD for five years, and here's what actually killed performance
…Rid of files you no longer need or uninstall games you haven't played in a while. You can manually force an OS trim sequence to rectify some of the issues, too…
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Updating my SSD's firmware fixed a chronic Windows problem that nothing else did
…the PC to a functioning state. I used to create weekly images on an automated schedule, and used this "fix" whenever the OS got corrupted. Of course, I suspected that my SSD…
PlayStation's digital pricing got so bad that the $80 disc drive became my best purchase
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Claude Code is powerful, but this one setting made it far more useful for real projects
…When cookies and local storage are continuously flushed, complex multi-part forms, shopping carts, and UI component states vanish. Instead of letting the AI operate autonomously in the background, I am forced…
Google locking Android down in 90 days is worse than you can imagine
…By baking this advanced flow entirely into proprietary Google Play Services instead of the open-source AAOS, Google retains the ability to withdraw the currently promised and graciously fear-mongering route to…
Anthropic quietly nerfed Claude Code's 1-hour cache, and your token budget is paying the price
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Windows is sabotaging your expensive hardware, and these are the biggest ways how
…Then, there are the likes of Delivery Optimization , Windows Update Medic Service, and various other maintenance schedulers that kick in at the worst possible times. You'll often see random CPU spikes…