Outlook is Microsoft’s neglected masterpiece
… Web wrappers let Microsoft write the code just once to update every software on every platform at the same time. …
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Windows 11 is finally getting a movable taskbar, and it only took Microsoft five years
… Related I finally set up ExplorerPatcher on Windows, and I should have sooner Windows 11 is much better this way Beyond the taskbar A leaner, faster Windows I have spent a lot of time criticizing the odd design choices and web wrappers on Windows 11 . …
Microsoft is finally fixing Windows 11, and these 4 upcoming features prove it
… More control over updates It's about time The disruptions caused by Windows updates have long been one of the things the operating system is most infamous for, and there really hasn't been much of a reason to think that would ever change. …
VS Code is no longer the default for me – here is the tool that finally broke the habit
… The 1.0 update brings some of the most requested features. …
HexOS can finally manage your NAS locally instead of through the cloud, and it fixes its biggest flaw
… Unraid shifted to annual update fees in 2024: the Starter tier is $49 and Unleashed is $109, but both only include one year of updates before you have to renew. Lifetime updates cost $249. …
I ditched LM Studio for llama.cpp, and my local LLM doesn't feel like a downgrade anymore
… Wrappers add overhead, so the same model on the same hardware runs noticeably faster in llama.cpp than in LM Studio, somewhere in the 5-20% range depending on your setup. llama.cpp also tends to support new models first because it's the upstream project everything else is built on, whereas LM Studi… …
I thought my Windows PC was slow until I stopped installing these apps on day one
… However, thanks to a recent update, Windows 11 now supports every major format, such as RAR, 7-Zip, and TAR. I understood I was wasting time and system resources installing third-party tools for a problem that Microsoft finally solved. …
The best NAS distro dropped a public beta for its new update, and it feels more like Proxmox with each release
… For example, version 25.06 changed TrueNAS’ virtualization stack from its own KVM implementation to an Incus-based wrapper. But the real show-stopper was the addition of TPM support and secure boot emulation, as it’s finally possible to host Windows 11 VMs without looking into extra workarounds. …
I added this open-source tool to my local AI stack, and my local LLM finally has persistent memory
… Compared to my LM Studio journal setup, this is much closer to what cloud AI does. I don't have to curate and keep the journal updated myself, which is a text document, and can just let the system keep itself updated. …
LXC updates in Proxmox aren't hard — managing 20 of them at scale is another story
… The script below will go through your container list, start them if not running, update it, then shut the container down in the background or leave it running if it was already before going on to the next LXC in the list. !/bin/bash update all containers list of container ids we need to iterate thr… …