iQOO Z11 is the mid-range phone most buyers will actually like
I have been testing the iQOO Z11 for two weeks. The headline number is Rs 34,999 for the base 6 GB / 128 GB model, and that price is the entire reason…
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Set Codex CLI’s sandbox flags before you let it touch anything
OpenAI’s Codex CLI is the company’s terminal coding agent. It reads files, runs commands, and edits your repository. It is fast, it understands a large context window, and it can be wrong…
Picking the right Bluetooth manager for your Linux desktop
Linux Bluetooth support is rarely the thing that breaks. BlueZ has shipped in the kernel for years, and most modern distributions will pair a phone or headset the moment you click the…
Twelve Linux notebooks, three that earned a permanent install
I have spent the last month keeping a fresh Linux install on a secondary laptop and trying every data science notebook I could get running on it. Not a click through the…
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…
I switched to Samsung Internet on Android and I have not gone back
I have been a Chrome loyalist on Android for ten years. I owned the Pixel, then the Samsung, then the OnePlus, and the browser was always Chrome. When I picked up the…
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…
Siemens spent ten years before publishing their design system
I have spent most of my career inside small companies, so the Siemens Element story catches my attention every time. A 1000 product enterprise codebase did not become a public open source…
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…
frp reaches the home server you can’t port forward to
frp is a fast reverse proxy written in Go that builds a tunnel between a machine behind NAT and a public server you already control. The tunnel is outbound, which is the…