Skip the Steam Machine: build one from parts you already own
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…
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Windows 11 search is broken. Here is the free fix that actually works
I have been running a fresh Windows 11 install on a test box for about three weeks now, and the first thing that drove me up the wall was the search box.…
Wikipedia just banned its own co-founder for asking Wikipedia to be neutral
Larry Sanger co-founded Wikipedia in January 2001. In June 2026, twenty-five years later, he was “blocked indefinitely” by the site he helped create. The reason, as reported by Sanger himself and by…
A self-hosted dashboard for Hermes Agent that does not need a browser zoo
If you have been running Hermes Agent on your own box and you keep opening three or four tabs just to check what your assistant is doing, you already know the pain.…
Brave’s Shred button lands on Android, and trackers hate it
I have run the same experiment on three different Android browsers over the last six months, and the result is always the same. I open a news site, read three articles, get…
GLM-5.2 from Z.ai may be the strongest open weights text model now
A new open weights model from Chinese AI lab Z.ai dropped on June 16th under an MIT license, and the early benchmarks suggest it deserves attention. GLM-5.2 (the latest in the GLM…
Slashing image weight for free, without wrecking pixels
Large images are a silent killer for websites. They slow down page loads, eat up storage space, and frustrate visitors who bounce before your content even loads. I have been dealing with…
TSA PreCheck just works from Google Wallet now
I fly maybe four times a year, and every trip has the same ten-minute friction at the TSA PreCheck line: dig out the boarding pass, dig out the driver’s license, scan the…
Thirteen graphical BitTorrent clients, and the one I’d pick
I needed a new BitTorrent client this month, and the choice was harder than I expected. There are at least 13 actively maintained graphical clients in the open-source world, and they make…
Word still won’t duplicate a page, so here’s what actually works
Word does not have a “Duplicate Page” button. Anyone who tells you otherwise is selling something. The closest thing is a series of workarounds that range from “select and copy” (the obvious…