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Belkin turned off the Wemo cloud last year. Insteon disappeared overnight in 2023. Google’s Revolv hub got bricked (made permanently nonfunctional through a software update) the same year the company bought it.…
I have been running Samsung DeX (Samsung’s desktop mode that runs on a phone when you plug it into a display) for about six years on three different Galaxy phones. The first…
I have been trying to replace my Alexa morning briefing for two years. The Alexa one was fine for weather and the BBC, but the headline mix was wrong. Too many stories…
I have four TVs in rotation and zero interest in paying for another subscription. So for the last month I let four free, ad-supported apps fight it out across my main set,…
Half of the agent failures I see in Python projects come from bad context, not a bad model. The other half come from the same thing in a different costume. Context engineering…
I have been paying for SuperGrok for eight months. I also use Hermes Agent (an open-source AI agent runtime that you can self-host or run on your laptop) for most of my…
I have been writing about Python for a while, and I get a version of this question every week. Someone is six months into learning Python, has built a few small projects,…
I bought an Apple Pencil Pro for my iPad Air M2 last month and spent the better part of an hour trying to figure out why it would not pair. The setup…
Valve quietly confirmed what the DIY crowd has been saying for a year: you can build a Steam Machine from whatever PC parts you have lying around, as long as SteamOS 3.8…
I run a GeForce RTX 2070 Super on my desk, and it has been quietly handling every local AI workload I have thrown at it for the last six months. The card…
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