Three safe ways to hide the Windows 11 Recycle Bin
I like a clean Windows desktop, but I do not like cleaning it by deleting useful system features. The Recycle Bin is a safety net, not decoration. Windows 11 lets you hide…
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The quieter AI trade-off inside open source projects
The “AI is destroying open source” headline has been recycled in some form every six months since 2022. The actual story is more interesting and less dramatic. Generative AI has changed who…
NanaZip is the 7-Zip fork I wish I had years ago
I used 7-Zip for fifteen years. The interface never changed. The compression ratios never improved. The integration with Windows never got better. Then I tried NanaZip, a free open-source archiver forked from…
Three open-source whiteboards with no account and no server
Whiteboard tools have multiplied over the last three years, and most of them require an account, send your data to a server, or both. The three below do neither. They are self-hostable,…
Six Jellyfin settings that turned my media server around
I paid for Plex Pass for about six years before the math stopped working. Hardware transcoding (using your server’s graphics card to convert video formats on the fly) was the feature that…
One free streaming app earned more screen time than the rest
I have four TVs in rotation and zero interest in paying for another subscription. So for the last month I let four free, ad-supported apps fight it out across my main set,…
Pairing the Apple Pencil Pro on iPad Air: the steps Apple skips
I bought an Apple Pencil Pro for my iPad Air M2 last month and spent the better part of an hour trying to figure out why it would not pair. The setup…
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…
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…