Retrofitting old appliances is the smart home upgrade that actually makes sense
…For example, a smart plug can tell you if the washing machine is running, but it can't tell you the cycle, time left, or a "clean filter" alert. In North American…
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Microsoft is testing a new Windows 11 feature that maxes out your CPU in short bursts to launch apps faster
…plan to revamp Windows 11 through staged updates rather than a single big update. Related Chrome is quietly downloading a 4GB AI file without telling you, says researcher Thankfully, there's a…
My favorite Linux recovery OS just got a modern Ubuntu foundation
…Now, Rescuezilla has just gotten a new update, and this one's pretty big. The flagship feature is an upgrade for its Ubuntu base, which puts the software this side of 2026…
I switched from Ubuntu to Fedora after 10 years, and I didn't expect to miss this
…You only need to open the Software & Updates tool, click on the Additional Drivers tab, and all the drivers for your hardware are listed right there. It gives me about a dozen…
I kept track of every Windows 11 update that broke something this year, and the list is getting long
…Optional previews and enterprise features weren't safe from broken updates Everybody gets the bad update smoke In a bit of particularly bad timing, a second March update also had to be…
I replaced my prompt library with a skills folder, and my AI workflow got dramatically faster
…Instead of updating dozens of prompts, I only need to improve a skill once. Every future task automatically benefits from that update. For me, skills turned AI from a collection of prompts…
NotebookLM quietly became a slide deck generator, and it's better than it has any right to be
…Text below Visual on the side showing how it works It had colors to tell each section apart and arrows so I could follow it more easily. Related NotebookLM helped me fix…
My home lab dashboards were a mess until I let ChatGPT tie them together
…A normal dashboard can tell me whether a service is up, how much memory a VM is using, or whether a container restarted recently. That information matters, but it’s only one…
KDE Plasma 6.7 will make managing your clipboard a lot less annoying
…However, if you tell KDE Plasma to clear your clipboard, it will show a notification asking whether you also want to clear the starred items, which, 99% of the time, you don…
NotebookLM's free tier does something Claude can't, and I stopped reaching for Claude because of it
…If the answer isn't in your sources, it tells you that instead of filling gaps with plausible-sounding guesses. Every response includes inline citations linking to the exact passage in the…