The concept of a second brain has been floating around in the productivity space for years, partly thanks to Tiago Forte's book Building a Second Brain, but especially so since AI entered the mix. The premise is that you put pretty much your entire digital life into one trusted system and let that system do the managing and remembering for you.

I'm a huge fan of KDE Plasma; I want to say it's about 80% of the reason why I stuck with Linux instead of going back to Windows. However, as much as I love it, some people have problems with specific parts of it. Well, the good thing about open-source software is that anyone can contribute to it, and one pet project was so good that people took to the comments to ask them to make it an official commit.

Earlier this year, when I upgraded to AM5, I bought the Crucial T710 Gen 5 SSD to go along with it, even though I knew my old Corsair MP600 Gen 4 NVMe from 2019 was still no slouch. After all, with my X870E board supporting PCIe 5.0 SSDs, it just made sense to use storage that could actually take advantage of it. The T710, on paper, is about three times faster than my MP600, claiming read speeds of up to 14,900 MB/s. Of course, I wasn't expecting all of that to translate to real-world performance, but I was still curious.

While deep in the recording process for The Downward Spiral, Trent Reznor lent some of his production talents to old friend Kevin McMahon, from the new wave band Lucky Pierre (which Reznor was briefly a member of). While Reznor is only credited as the producer on four tracks off Prick's self-titled debut record, his fingerprints are all over it. But McMahon also can't suppress his inner theater kid, which also gives the songs the sort of glammy flamboyance found on T. Rex records. Prick embraces the inherent theatricality of goth in a way that Nine Inch Nails never did. Opener "Communiqué" is a fuzzy blast of simple punk riffs with electro …Read the full story at The Verge.

We don't know a ton about the Fitbit Edge, but it appears to be a successor to the midrange Charge line. It had leaked previously, but we can clearly see in these images posted by Android Headlines, you can see that Google's rumored fitness tracker sort of splits the difference between the Pixel Watch and the Fitbit Air. It has a small screen that is able to display some widgets, but clearly isn't as expansive as a proper smartwatch. Supposedly, this fitness-first wearable will have a seven-day battery life, as well as built-in GPS and an altimeter, making it far more capable than the minimalist Air. It will also have limited app support f …Read the full story at The Verge.

You have a working homelab. It already replaced many of your cloud services with self-hosted alternatives, and then you go after one of the last ones. I did the same. From Google Drive and Apple iCloud to Bitwarden Premium and NextDNS, I ditched almost everything for free alternatives via my homelab. And when everything worked in my favor, I aimed big. I tried to replace my Google Workspace with a self-hosted mail server. Spoiler alert: it didn’t work the way I expected.

A large portion of my workday is spent responding to messages, emails, and typing out the same information over and over again. There are some parts of my emails—especially the sections of pitches where I mention my previous publications—that don't change much regardless of who I'm speaking with, and that means I write that same finite combination of words over and over again throughout the week.

There’s one thing I absolutely love about AI coding. No, it isn’t that coding suddenly takes less effort. It also isn’t the fact that beginners no longer have to spend months teaching themselves how to code. And it obviously isn’t developers losing their jobs to AI tools. I’m majoring in computer science myself, so I have a little too much skin in the game for that one.

Creating a DIY smart display makes for a cool project at home, but how do you solve the problem of it being always on? If energy draw is your biggest concern, an e-ink display can render screens that don't require high refresh rates with minimal draw. However, one clever tinkerer has found another way to save on power: set up a radar that only turns the screen on if someone is close.

Within NVIDIA's initial rollout of DLSS 5 and its headline feature, 3D guided neural rendering, there was an element of excitement. However, this was quickly undercut by the reveal of the graphics it produces and the uncanny valley it creates. Outside of this, it promised unprecedented realism, geometry reconstruction, and fully realized AI-generated lighting pipelines, which sounded like a generational leap if you can look past the nightmarish AI-generated faces.

I've spent enough time with Jellyfin to understand why people love it, and its free and open-source nature is exactly why I prefer it over every other media hosting service out there.

Google's Gary Illyes showed timing ranges for crawling, indexing, site moves, and core update recovery at Search Central Live Deep Dive Europe in Barcelona.The post Google Shows How Long Crawling, Indexing & Recovery Can Take appeared first on Search Engine Journal.