What agentic AI actually does (and where it falls apart)
The phrase “agentic AI” gets used like a magic word in 2026. Every product page, every pitch deck, every LinkedIn thread seems to slap it on whatever the vendor is selling. Most…
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8 AI apps worth paying for in 2026 (and which ones to skip)
Most AI app roundups read the same way. They list twenty tools, give each one a paragraph that sounds like marketing copy, and leave you no closer to knowing which one to…
The 10-minute security sweep I run on my 19 smart devices every year
The number that got me was nineteen. That is how many devices on my home network had a reachable port, a cloud account, or a Bluetooth radio at the end of last…
I almost forwarded a port to check my home camera. The better path
A friend asked me last month how to peek at his porch camera from the office, and before I could stop myself I was halfway through describing port forwarding. Then I caught…
Collabora Office 26.04 hands the AI key back to the user
The office suite market in 2026 has settled into a pattern. AI is on by default. The toggle is buried five menus deep. The assistant ships with a vendor model you cannot…
Six ways to test an open port without installing telnet on Linux
You stood up a service, opened a firewall rule, or wired up a reverse proxy. Now you want to know if a specific port is actually reachable from where you are. The…
8 DuckDuckGo settings that earn it the default slot
I run DuckDuckGo as my default search engine, and the honest answer is that I am not there for the privacy pitch alone. The privacy is real, but the day-to-day reason is…
Self-hosting did not kill these four subscriptions
I spent two years replacing cloud subscriptions with self-hosted alternatives. Immich holds my photos. Nextcloud replaced Google Drive. Jellyfin runs the music. Plex serves the movies. After all that work, four services…
What Chrome’s new auto-clicking actually does to your workflow
For thirty years, the web ran on a single assumption: a person is doing the clicking. Every form, every checkout button, every “are you sure?” prompt was built for human hands and…
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…