Snapdragon X2 Linux preview is real progress, just not for you yet
I keep a folder of half-finished Linux experiments on a spare partition, and roughly a quarter of them have been “make this Snapdragon laptop behave like a normal PC.” None of them…
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What a year on one Linux distribution taught me about chasing new
I have reinstalled Linux on real hardware more times than I want to count, and the only clean lesson from those installs is that I should have reinstalled less. Twelve months on…
Unsloth Desktop ended my four-app local AI rotation
I have been running local AI through the same four-app rotation for two years. LM Studio (a friendly GUI for GGUF model files) for casual chats, AnythingLLM (a chat app with built-in…
A Daggerfall mod finally adds multiplayer, thirty years late
There is a strange category of game that fans keep fixing. The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall is one of them. Bethesda shipped the original in 1996 for MS-DOS with ambitions that outran…
I tried System Informer for a week. Here is what surprised me
I press Ctrl+Shift+Esc out of habit. Open the built in Windows task panel, sort by memory, kill whatever is eating the RAM, close the window, move on. For most people that is…
I replaced Ubuntu GNOME with Cinnamon and stopped fighting my desktop
Eight years is a long time to live with a desktop. My Dell laptop rolled past its eighth birthday last spring, and for the entire run it has been an Ubuntu box…
Why a dying pixel creature on my desk catches what every alert missed
I lost half a workday to a runaway local language model that ate all my RAM (random-access memory, the working memory that programs compete for) and quietly took down Audiobookshelf (my self-hosted…
I killed my phone’s 2G fallback and stopped charging at 9 pm
My Galaxy S24 Ultra was running out of juice before I hit the pillow on too many nights. I do not care about battery benchmarks. I care about whether the thing I…
Three flagship phones sat on my desk for a week. Here is the ranking
I had three flagship phones on my desk for a week in late 2026. A Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 reference unit, an iPhone 18 Pro with the A20 Pro, and…
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…