I dropped Adobe Creative Cloud and the bill went to zero
I cancelled my Adobe Creative Cloud subscription last year, and the only regret I have is that I did not do it sooner. The full Creative Cloud suite was costing me somewhere…
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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…
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…
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…
One open-source Android app replaced my four-app photo editing stack
Every content creator has a moment. You finish the post, you go to publish the image, and suddenly you are bouncing between four apps to crop, resize, convert, watermark, and re-export. Each…
A pragmatic audit script for any no-cloud office suite claim
The most useful thing in the LibreOffice 26.8 release announcement is not a feature. It is a sentence that says what is not there. The Document Foundation put that absence at the…
super productivity is the to-do app that earned the second device
The single best argument for Super Productivity, a free open-source task and time tracker maintained on GitHub, is not any feature on its settings page. It is the fact that the data…
TikTok’s $400 million COPPA settlement is not the fix parents need
A $400 million privacy settlement is a number that makes headlines. It does not delete the data already collected, change the algorithm overnight, or stop the next platform from copying the playbook.…
Meta patches the smart glasses LED loophole with a firmware update
The cleanest abuse pattern for the Meta Ray-Ban glasses was always a small piece of tape. Stick it over the small white bulb on the front corner of the frame, and the…
My homelab cut a $1,200 a year subscription bill down to $30 a month
My credit card statement got embarrassing in a quiet way. Not the obvious SaaS (software as a service, meaning paid subscriptions you reach over the internet) tools. The small ones, stacked up…