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Your entire PC build might be bottlenecked by a setting you enabled years ago and forgot about
It's worth revisiting the biggest performance offenders in settings
Your PC still has a keyboard controller interface from 1984, and Linux keeps it as its second way to reboot
Your PC has some old tech inside still keeping things up and running.
I ditched Google Maps' offline mode for this app, and now I never worry about connectivity again
Organic Maps does offline navigation the right way, and Google Maps can't compete
Back-to-school sale drops the TI-84 Evo to its lowest price at just $74
The perfect way to start the year
Claude Code taught me ESP32 development, and my smart home projects got way faster
I didn't think I could use Claude code for this, but it worked
I added one line to my Codex prompts, and it fixed the tool's biggest problem
One sentence fixed my biggest Codex annoyance
CGNAT is silently blocking your home server, and your ISP won't tell you
Upstream NAT can interfere with your home server.
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4 tiny open-source tools that save me hours every week
Open source software might just be what you need
The Steam Deck dominates handhelds, but the market it owns is tinier than you think
Valve owns the market it created but it's only a fraction of Steam users
This Immich fork does what Google Photos still can't
Noodle Gallery fixes the one thing Immich got wrong about family photo sharing
Ripping my Blu-rays was the best upgrade I ever made to my Plex server
Streaming will never look the same - literally
These 4 self-hosted LLMs run surprisingly well on integrated graphics
Integrated graphics handled these local AI models better than expected.
Task Scheduler lied to me for months, so I moved everything to WSL cron
My backups stopped running and Windows never said a word.
HDMI 2.2 cables are here, but the hardware that needs them won't arrive for years
Infrastructure for a future that doesn't exist... yet
I stopped uploading sensitive documents to Claude after finding a self-hosted tool that handles them just as well
My private documents finally have a home
Your 3D printer's easiest filament is also the one most likely to shatter
PLA is easy to print, but its brittleness makes it a poor choice for many functional parts
I replaced my Fire TV Stick with a mini PC, and now my TV does things Amazon never intended
Upgrading to a high-quality streaming experience.
I stopped forwarding ports on my router, and a self-hosted mesh VPN made my home lab safer overnight
The safest port is the one that doesn't exist.