Samsung One UI 9 brings network kill switches and a unified dialer
I have owned a Samsung phone for the better part of a decade, and I have learned to ignore the Samsung blog posts that list every new feature with breathless enthusiasm. One…
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5 ways to kill a Windows process Task Manager refuses to end
You click End task in Task Manager. The process sits there, doing nothing, refusing to die. The application is hung, the request to close never lands, and Task Manager looks broken. It…
Tune AirPods sound on iOS 27 without chasing presets
Apple’s new equalizer is useful precisely because it is modest. It does not turn an iPhone into a recording console, and it does not offer a library of elaborate profiles. It gives…
I dropped most desktop apps for browser tools, and I regret waiting
I used to install an app for every new task. My PC got crowded with software I barely opened, and I never questioned it. Then a few browser-based tools got good enough…
A practical field guide to cheaper AI coding workflows
Cheap AI coding is easy. Cheap AI coding that still ships correct code is the actual problem. The teams I have watched waste the most money on AI tooling are the ones…
Chrome privacy settings cut what your VPN cannot hide
I kept my VPN on for most of a year because I thought it was doing the work of about five different privacy tools at once. It is not. A VPN (virtual…
A weekend and a jailbreak later, my Kindle reads home state
I had a Kindle Paperwhite doing duty as a Home Assistant (an open-source home automation platform that talks to lights, switches, thermostats, and other smart devices) dashboard for a few months. It…
Four Docker containers that earn their keep on an old phone
I have a home lab. It runs about thirty containers across two x86 boxes, and I reach them over Tailscale (a mesh VPN that lets devices on different networks talk as if…
Four Android swaps that quietly gut Google from your phone
I made the switch to open-source apps on my Android phone for one reason. Privacy was the pitch I sold myself on a Tuesday night after a third ad for a vacuum…
A Claude Code workflow that survives a real Python project
Claude Code is a paid Anthropic command-line tool that reads your project, proposes code edits as diffs, and runs commands after you approve each one. It is more like a junior pair…