Chatbots are designed to make you feel like your conversations are personal. They’re highly agreeable, and over-friendly, and simulate the experience of chatting with a friend online—assuming that friend can […]

My home music setup grew with the constant march of technological innovation until it dawned on me just how complicated things had become. My music streaming devices include a smart […]

My Obsidian vault used to be a mess of nested folders. I had a system, or so I thought. Notes about books, work, and random ideas each got their own […]

There are some TV shows that seem to go on forever. Series like The Simpsons, Family Guy, and Doctor Who have all been running for decades. Far more often, TV […]

I keep a portable PC diagnostic USB with the necessary tools and often prefer Rufus for its stability. However, the challenge with Rufus is that you need to keep reformatting […]

Here’s the loop I got tired of: record a clip on my phone, try to send it, watch the messaging app either refuse the file outright or crush it into […]

Summary Built-in Libby: borrow library ebooks and audiobooks natively—big win over Kindle. 7-inch E INK Carta 1300, IPX4 splash-proof, Bluetooth 5.1 and text-to-speech; reader-focused. Launch $149.99 — cheaper than Paperwhite; […]

There’s more than one way of mounting a graphics card in a standard PC case. While the more traditional horizontal mount exists, vertical mounts have slowly been gaining traction and […]

Have you ever been told to open Core Isolation and disable Memory Integrity? It’s a widely talked-about way of reclaiming lost frames and genuinely sounds like the ultimate free upgrade. […]

Most DNS resolvers offer good protection against known scam sites. But “known” is the catch. The ones that usually slip through are the ones too new to be on any […]