KOReader plus an LLM turned my old Kindle into my favorite reader
I have a Kindle 4 that was obsolete when the Obama administration was still young. The battery is shot, the bezels are thick, and it does not have a touchscreen. I have…
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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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Windows 11 hides a free CPU tune-up most people will never find
I have a test bench in my office that runs Windows 11 on a mid-range Ryzen processor. It is not slow, but it is not fast either. It is the kind of…
Five self-hosting stories worth following this week
A useful self-hosting roundup should do more than list releases. It should tell me which change deserves an evening, which one deserves caution, and which one can wait until somebody else finds…
Nine Rust publishing tools matched to the work they fit
Rust static site generators have split into recognizable jobs. One wants to build a conventional website from a single binary. Another turns Markdown into a book. A third treats connected notes as…
Edit photos on your NAS and keep them off someone else’s server
I have a simple rule about photo editing tools. If the app needs an internet connection to remove a background or resize an image, I am already suspicious. My photos are my…
Munich court makes Google own its AI hallucinations
The Regional Court of Munich (Landgericht München I) ruled on Tuesday that Google is directly responsible for false claims generated by its AI Overviews. The case is the first of its kind…
I stopped opening ports to reach my smart home and you should too
My Home Assistant install used to live behind a port forward on my router. So did my NAS, my printer, and a long-forgotten Raspberry Pi running Pi-hole. Every one of those was…
Stop paying for Windows cleanup and learn Sysinternals
I have removed more paid “PC cleanup” suites from family computers than I have installed. The pattern is familiar: a yearly subscription, a red warning badge, and a dashboard that claims the…
I stopped losing newsletters to my inbox. One Zap fixed it.
I subscribe to maybe thirty newsletters. I read maybe five of them properly. The other twenty-five just pile up in my Gmail until I open one with a subject line I half-remember…
Four Scheme tools for building small static websites
Scheme is not where most people start when they need a website. That is exactly why these four static site generators are interesting. They treat publishing as a programming problem, not as…