COSMIC is doing things KDE and GNOME still can't, and it's only going to get better

THe up=and-coming COSMIC desktop may need some more polish, but it's already a strong contender against KDE and GNOME.

I stopped asking Claude Code to build things, and that's when it got actually useful

Claude Code is most useful in my home lab when I give it boring chores.

I tried to replace every Cloudflare service in my homelab — here's what I kept and what I dropped

Some Cloudflare services just earned their place.

I manually deleted 50GB from my Google Photos library on my Pixel, and it was surprisingly easy

There isn't an automatic feature that deletes duplicate images in Google Photos, so I took matters into my own hands.

What Intel Firefly actually means for Windows laptops (and why it's not just another processor)

Making Windows more like Apple.

My local LLM was just a chat box until Hermes Agent let it run scripts, files, and jobs for me

Hermes Agent is a great addition to my home lab.

This Raspberry Pi e-ink display looks like framed wall art, and the software behind it is open source

The software itself is something to behold.

Excel's Copilot finally tackles the nightmare of sorting through your open-ended survey data

Just a few clicks and you're done.

Someone moved three lines of code in Linux 7.2 and got a 5% storage speed boost

It's just that easy, sometimes.

You can now fly around the world in Google Earth from the comfort of your browser

For free, too.