Microsoft owns Windows, so Copilot should have a home-field advantage. Yet after using Google’s new Gemini desktop app, Copilot suddenly feels like the less ambitious product. This isn’t another stripped-down AI window that simply duplicates what I can already do in a browser.

For years, my troubleshooting loop has looked the same. A command fails, I hit Win + Shift + S, crop the red text, and paste it into a chatbot. It works, but my error output ends up on someone else's servers, tokens and all. That bothered me more after I let a local LLM loose on my server logs and saw what those logs give away.

Besides its extensive documentation and easy configuration process, the Compose functionality is one of the main draws of Docker, and it’s low-key why I still work with this container runtime even after encountering LXCs and Podman. Sure, Podman has quadlets for deploying containers from config files, but with most of the popular FOSS apps shipping with compose.yml files, Docker Compose is far more accessible, regardless of whether you're a newcomer to the self-hosting ecosystem or a home lab veteran.

It's always good to find a new way to put your unused hardware to use, and turning one into a Proxmox virtualisation host is definitely one of the more useful ways. If you have a Raspberry Pi 5 that isn't earning its rent, someone on Reddit has devised a way to turn it into a handy Proxmox tool, although it comes with a handful of downsides.

Usually, we see SBCs and microcontrollers used to create new things, but you can also use them to breathe new life into old hardware. Such is the case with this 1968 Grundig Musikgerät RF116, which, presumably, had stopped working, so someone took it upon themselves to bring it into the 21st century with an ESP32.

Halfway through a project in Claude Code, I often realize that the thing I'm building isn't really what I wanted. At first I chalked this up to iteration, and that experimentation is part of the process. But I'd end up scraping my sessions too often or arguing my way back into what I wanted, which is a big waste of tokens.

It has been almost twenty days since it came out, but the internet is mysteriously torn on the subject of DLSS 5. On one hand, it has been touted as perhaps one of the worst uses of artificial intelligence in gaming, being one that deviates from artistic intent in video game design and slaps a filter on everything that makes it look like an AI interpretation of what the game should be.

Meta's Muse is apparently an effective AI assistant, but one that's a little creepy. Part of that is because of its new Mac app, which can access Messages, Calendar, and Notes. But for all its smarts, Muse doesn't actually know how to describe itself. Jason Aten, a contributing editor at Inc Magazine, posted on Threads screenshots of an interaction he had with Muse in which the assistant asks him some questions about a conversation he was having in Messages. The problem is that Aten says he didn't give Muse access to his messages. When asked how it knew about the contents of his messages, Muse replied, "I saw the notification previews, not …Read the full story at The Verge.

PCIe 3.0 has been around for so long that seeing it in a PC today almost makes the entire platform feel ancient. Think about this for a second. The very first PC I built in 2012 with the i7-3770K already had PCIe 3.0 support, and since then, we've gone through PCIe 4.0 and now have PCIe 5.0 on mainstream motherboards. In fact, current-gen GPUs from both Nvidia and AMD are all PCIe 5.0, so pairing one with a motherboard that's still limited to PCIe 3.0 probably sounds like a terrible idea.

The default Google TV screensaver on Android TV devices is media-heavy, poorly designed, and sluggish. Alternative home screen launchers can make it prettier or lighter, depending on what you want. For instance, Projectivy gives the home screen an elegant look with several options, but it isn't as light as, say, Arc Launcher, which might be too basic for some.

Linux is the most popular open-source operating system in the world, but its road to this point was not without its perils. Part of its popularity is due to AT&T suing Berkeley over 186 lines of Unix code, which allowed Linux to flourish. Without that lawsuit, who knows where Linux would have been?

I spend a ridiculous amount of time per day renaming screenshots. I'm not exaggerating, I promise. In fact, going through this article alone should be enough for you to see why! Every screenshot I take for an article needs to be renamed with a descriptive filename before I upload it, which usually means stopping what I'm doing, figuring out what the screenshot actually shows, and typing out a name that I'll still understand later.