Spotify is great, but it's not the be-all and end-all of music playback. Over the years, I've gravitated toward a highly curated, high-res music library on my NAS. Now, that's great when I'm at home, but what about listening on the go? It turns out, Android Auto can connect me to the music library sitting on my NAS just as well. I can browse albums, pick playlists, and play exactly what I want, with or without great internet connectivity.

If you're an AI power user, sometimes the weekly resets can really hamper your productivity. Fortunately, if you're a Claude user, it seems the AI company has thrown everyone a bone, albeit a limited one. Claude users are reporting a button that lets you reset your weekly limit with a single click, but don't get too used to it; it's only around for one month, and you only get one, so use it wisely.

There's a special kind of homelab itch that comes from an IP address you can't explain. I had three: 192.168.4.22, 192.168.4.44, and 192.168.4.81. No hostnames, no PTR records, and nothing in Home Assistant claimed them. One of those had been bugging me for months, and I had a sneaking suspicion it was a TV.

Have you ever wanted an electric bike that easily transitions from the drudgery of urban asphalt to adventures in gravel and dirt? That's what a subclass of so-called "electric SUV" (eSUV) e-bikes claims to do, with their wide, all-terrain tires and front and rear suspension, plus practical accessories like fenders and racks.So, that's what I set out to test on a new TL Carbon e-bike from Amflow, the DJI offshoot that upended the mountain bike industry a few years ago with its incredibly small and powerful Avinox motors.After a month of testing in the heart of Amsterdam - including a three day bikepacking trip along coastal bicycle super …Read the full story at The Verge.

I still remember installing PowerToys for the first time last year just because I wanted to try out Command Palette and see if I could ditch Windows Search once and for all. I've never really been happy with Windows Search and the Start menu in particular, and Command Palette was the solution to both of them. Fast forward to today, and I've moved on to Raycast because it just goes the extra mile with community-driven extensions and AI integration.

There was a time when, every time I opened File Explorer, Steam, or Ollama, I caught myself itching for another PCIe Gen 4 NVMe SSD. There's been a silent inflation in the storage economy over the past couple of years. In that, it seems that everything I have seems to cost more in gigabytes than it used to. Games, local AI models, project folders, all of that seems to have grown.

Docker has been reliable enough on my home server that I never thought much about the latest tag in my Compose file. That changed the day I decided to test Jellyfin’s release candidate version 12 before it went stable. Weeks later, my container refused to fetch the finished build. Chasing that down sent me into troubleshooting mode, and that’s when I learned what the latest tag really is, and what I assumed about it turned out to be wrong. The latest tag isn’t a promise about version numbers; it's a tag that someone else controls. Understanding that changed how I write every image in my server's Compose file.

At the Snapdragon Summit 2026, Qualcomm announced its powerful new Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 and Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6. While the pair of mobile chips feature impressive specs, like a 2 + 6 Oryon CPU layout with 2 Prime cores clocked at 5GHz and 6 Performance cores at 4GHz, they still can't easily run PC games that require DirectX 12 support. However, new rumors suggest that could soon change.

Creeping subscription fees make cloud storage feel a little bit like a scam. Some services can cost hundreds of dollars a year just to keep backing up family photos in original quality. On top of that, the backup process itself is frustrating. Cloud services can throttle upload speeds, compress raw files in the background, and trap your media behind proprietary web viewers with zero granular control.

There are some tests one can do to see just how capable a locally hosted large language model (LLM) actually is. It's one thing to fire up Ollama and choose a model to ask it some general queries and something completely different to request something more in-depth. I thought about how well LLMs can put together documentation, using project files as a source, so I decided to see how well my Qwen 3.6:27b-q4_K_M would handle it. Unsurprisingly, it did a fine job.

Usually, when a new version of KDE Plasma is on the horizon, its developers stop making new features and start fixing bugs. Polishing existing features instead of adding new ones is a great way to keep the final product from becoming a buggy mess. Now, with just over two weeks remaining until KDE Plasma 6.8 launches, developers have snuck in a few more features before the submission door closes.

I had almost 1TB of data to move between two Windows laptops. As it happened, it was only data from my media server, so I was in no hurry. I decided to do the transfer without involving my NAS, cloud storage, or a USB drive. Even if I had wanted to use cloud storage, I couldn’t have because I don’t have a 1TB plan.