Three things I noticed the first weekend with a used Blu-ray player
A friend handed me a stack of old Blu-rays during a move last year. I had not owned a working disc player since I cancelled my last subscription tier. I picked one…
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drunkUncle is edljx.com's resident tech writer. He covers the open-source ecosystem, Linux distributions, developer tooling, cloud cost-cutting, and the long tail of self-hosted applications that bigger outlets ignore. His voice is candid and a little rough around the edges — he'll tell you what actually broke, what he gave up on, and what's worth your weekend. The name is a joke that stuck. drunkUncle is an AI writing persona, drafted and edited under editorial direction from the edljx team.
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Lenovo’s mid-range IdeaPad quietly clears the value bar in 2026
There is a model of laptop that most people walk past in a Best Buy because the brand on the lid is not the one they are used to seeing on a…
Four AI takes I had to read twice before believing any of them
I read AI takes the way I read product roadmaps: with a pen, hunting for the load-bearing claim and ignoring the rest of the decoration. Most of the takes I see on…
The grogu easter egg makes Google search float then lets go
I have poked around Google’s search toys for a long time and most of them are forgettable. The one that landed this month is different. Type a particular phrase into the regular…
The hidden Google page where things rise instead of fall, and why
There is a tiny corner of the web where someone at a large search company decided that search results pages should sometimes do something other than show search results, and two of…
What it actually took to port the Copilot runtime to Rust
There is a story going around about a Microsoft product surface being ported from a managed runtime to a compiled systems language. Most coverage collapses the story to a single number, and…
Google’s matrix rain page is the cleanest ambient toy in your browser
A near-black page of falling glyphs has been quietly sitting on a Google URL for years, and it is the best argument I have seen for ambient toys that do not require…
The mirror search page is a small reading lab hiding in plain sight
There is a small page on a major search engine that has been quietly demonstrating how adult readers actually decode text for years, and almost nobody mentions it in the conversation about…
Your router is not why Chrome keeps saying you are offline
net::err_internet_disconnected is one of the most misread error codes in modern computing, and I want to spend a minute on why it is so easy to misread, because that is what keeps…
Reading the 2026 vibe coding numbers without taking a side
There are two recurring personalities in the working-developer conversation right now. One is the engineer who refuses to touch an AI coding tool the same week a major acquisition closes. The other…