I ran my local LLM for hours and watched it get dumber in real time

The AI was smarter than the person setting it up

Microsoft once spent $150 million to keep Apple alive, and it wasn't out of kindness

Microsoft had a lot to gain out of the deal, too.

Your old office PC is secretly a transcoding beast for Plex and Jellyfin with one cheap upgrade


Immich finally delivers Google Photos' best feature with one open-source tool

I finally got Google Photos style memories on my Immich server using this open source tool

I turned my self-hosted LLM from a glorified chat box into a real AI assistant

After months of testing local LLMs, I found that productivity depends on tools, not just models.

I use this Android Auto feature on every drive, and I’m surprised more people don’t know about it

The productivity feature hiding in plain sight

Thread took years to fix what Zigbee got right from day one

Your smart home mesh is splitting in half because Thread's architecture was broken from launch

This underrated note-taking app solved the problem Notion and OneNote never could

It gets out of my way

I stopped trusting my TV’s motion smoothing settings, and every movie looked better immediately

Motion smoothing is ruining your movies, and disabling it takes 30 seconds

SATA SSDs are cheaper, fast enough, and the only drives I'm buying

I'm buying them until they disappear completely