The MacBook Air is one of those laptops that gets tons of praise and just keeps getting better with each iteration. While the design hasn't changed over the past couple of years, that isn't a bad thing. With each new iteration, Apple tends to focus its energy on improving the power and efficiency. So it should come as no surprise that the MacBook Air M4 is an absolute winner with its powerful M4 chip.

Well, it seems the time is up for OnePlus. While the company itself hasn't made any announcement yet, one publication, which is very familiar with OnePlus, is reporting that Oppo is closing up shop with the mobile device manufacturer. However, unlike most rumors, this one seems to contain a ton of proof that, while the move hasn't been announced yet, OnePlus is indeed getting canned by its parent company.

Mornings used to feel like a stack of tiny decisions before I even had a chance to wake up properly. I bounced between apps, calendars, and notes, trying to remember what actually mattered that day. That constant switching drained my energy before I did anything meaningful. Once I started treating my morning like a sequence that could be automated with free tools, everything settled into a calmer rhythm. These five apps now handle the setup work for me, so my brain is free to focus on actually starting the day.

This is one of those things that's kind of silly, but also incredibly cool at the same time. With the help of a clever accessory, Reddit user alanpep was able to get Game Boy cartridges to play on Microsoft and Asus' ROG Xbox Ally.

It has been a while, hasn't it? The last time we saw a PowerToys update, it was back in November of last year. It added some nice features to the Command Palette, and it was very welcome. However, it seems that the PowerToys team still isn't quite finished yet, as they've released yet another update for the palette, and this time, a lot has changed.

When it comes to network security, I usually adhere to the approach of less is more. Simplicity is viewed as the better solution for safeguarding everything on the local area network (LAN) than complexity. You can often find instances of dozens, if not hundreds, of firewall rules in use by organizations and large networks. While this is a great way to fine-tune precisely what can (and more importantly, cannot) access the LAN, it's largely overkill for home security. All you need is one rule policy: default deny.

Whenever there's a sandbox game, there are people who want to mod said sandbox game. Whenever people get together to mod a sandbox game, they start adding things the game was never properly programmed to handle. And if they manage to succeed, we begin seeing some truly amazing things.

For a long time, buying the flagship GPU felt like the natural endgame of being a PC enthusiast. It was the part you saved for, justified to yourself, and built the rest of the system around. And for a while, the price was justified. Flagships used to be in the order of $500-$700, could run the latest games and pushed the boundaries of performance, but could still be accessible to enthusiasts with a bit of extra cash in their pockets.

Although I began my home labbing journey with an outdated PC, the tinkering bug in my head forced me to invest in extra paraphernalia. As such, I’ve split my collection of virtual machines and containers across a couple of nodes, with each server running distinct tools for my tinkering needs. Well, there’s some overlap in the container stacks of my self-hosting rigs, as I’ve deployed a couple of QoL Docker apps on every system to make my management tasks a lot less painful.

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Enterprise high availability usually means buying expensive rack servers with redundant power supplies and IPMI management cards. The hardware alone costs thousands before you even think about software. But what if you could build a proper HA cluster using old laptops collecting dust in your closet? That is exactly what I set out to do, and not to boast, but I seem to have achieved that feat (to some extent, at least).

Photoshop is powerful and sleek, but it’s also heavy, expensive, and a bit overkill for the average editor. Among the many other alternatives I’ve come to love, I recently also started playing around with a web-based editor. It’s a simple option for anyone looking for a capable Photoshop alternative without a subscription.