Day: August 6, 2026

Battery life has easily become the biggest frustration with my Pixel, so I’m constantly experimenting to squeeze a little more life out of it. Over the past few months, I’ve […]

I pulled my laptop out of my bag after a commute lasting a little over an hour, and it was warm. Not “just came off my desk” warm. Bag-cooking warm, […]

For decades, Notepad was one of the few Windows apps that demanded almost nothing from you. You opened it, typed, saved the file, and closed it. There was little formatting, […]

For years, I had file copies that I assumed were backups. One was an external drive, the other a cloud sync folder, and the third was a second disk. This […]

Trace the ancestry of many Linux distributions still in widespread use, and the same family lines keep resurfacing. Ubuntu inherited much of its foundation from an older project, while Fedora, […]

My entire workstation is connected to my router through Ethernet, so I barely think about using Wi-Fi. The only time I really depend on Wi-Fi is when I’m watching Netflix […]

A free Intel NUC with a 1TB mechanical hard drive was just too hard to pass up. Between my media server and random SMB shares across multiple servers, my important […]

I carry an unimaginable amount of tech and gadgets with me on a daily basis. We’re talking about multiple laptops, smartphones, headphones, and a camera as the bare minimum. For […]

I wanted fewer Google prompts, fewer background services, and more say over what a page could load on my phone. What I did not want was to relearn how a […]

I rarely ever shut off my PC, and that’s a bad habit I’ve been wanting to break for a while now. However, I need my computer on all the time, […]