One of the big things I’ve done recently has been to reduce my dependency on subscription-based software. I did some initial work on this a…

Since 22 September, Google’s consumer AI subscriptions include Colab. Google’s help page is specific about what that means: “Google AI Pro members get 200 CCUs”, Colab compute…

A technical exploration of the Apple Vision Pro's 3D spatial pinpointing realization.

No app to install, no account to make. One card from 2001 that paid for everything.

fcitx5 加拼音或雾凇拼音仍是主流；Typeless 9 月出了只有 x64 的 Linux 版，fcitx5 社区已经长出一批本地和云端识别的语音插件；微信输入法只有灰色的社区移植。

Nuova postazione nata per caso e necessità Ho sostituito da una settimana l'iMac 27 del 2009, onore alla resistenza di questa macchina, dopo 16 anni abbondanti guasto alla scheda Wi-Fi ed al…

There is no shortage of agentic workspaces these days. I do really love how there are so many different takes on the problems and solutions. Ah, open source, and the beauty of choice! In some of my…

a tiling-first, aesthetic linux distribution

Can an opinionated Linux desktop like Omarchy break out of the geek niche and into the mainstream?

Calendars and notes never became habits for me. Then one small Mac app found a place in my life, and years later I began to worry about losing it.

Portugal charges its vehicle tax once, when a car first receives a Portuguese plate. That tax is the ISV, the imposto sobre veículos, and it explains both why used cars cost more here than in Spain…

No one should mistake my audience as representative of the general public in any poll, but I bet my audience is at least ballpark representative of the general public when it comes to something like…

Stellantis, the company behind car brands like Fiat, Dodge, and Jeep, has a rocky history of releasing plugin hybrids that burst into flames as well as EVs that are consistently reviewed poorly and…

I recently slapped NetBSD on my Raspberry Pi 5. Mostly because NetBSD is cool and I want to use it more. But also because I want to slowly escape AI and projects using it, and Linux isn’t safe…

The Raddy ATS-200 was first released in May of 2024. I ordered one from Raddy today because it was on sale for $69.99 (plus about $10 shipping). That’s $50 off. It’s an attractive package…

I’ve been railing against the screensaver ads that come on the new plastic-backed Kindles for 2026 ever since I got the Kindle Ube, so I was surprised when the advertisements suddenly…

For about 10 years I’ve worked at the same company, and for about 9 of those years I’ve been running NixOS on my work machine with a setup that I’ve built and tuned exactly the way…

Kernel 7.3 is out, and a brief summery is here: https://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/2610.2/05350.html As expected from tests with -rc versions, the latest NVIDIA 615.78.08 and VMware…

Firefox Privacy Notice Effective May 4, 2026 At Mozilla, we believe that privacy is fundamental to a healthy internet That’s why we build Firefox, and all our products, to give you greater control…

As the gap between ‘now’ and the London Show shrinking more and more – for the benefit of anyone who has been living in a hermit’s cave, it’s this coming Saturday (24th…

Why?! At least it shows an actual error message instead of just hiding the toggle, or flipping itself back on. But just saying that it’s not possible is such a terrible user experience. Explain to me…

i have recently watched a video by louis rossmann on why he's ditching graphene os. long story short, the founder of the project, daniel micay was sort of dramatical in his messages and tried to…

Looks like Apple isn’t done with new products this month. Tyler Stalman shared this over on Threads: I think the MacBook Pro is about to enter its touchscreen era.

Bit of a wordy title, but since macOS 26.4 the rebranding options in both Jamf Auto Update and Notifier have stopped working, at least as far as the icons being shown in Notification Center for…

Saw this on Facebook on the MLite-880 groups with “Elecevolve’s new product, the RT-880X, gets an early reveal — pre-sale is coming soon. Stay tuned for more details!” plus these…

VMPal is described as “Virtual Machines built for Apple silicon and AI agents”. Straight from Apple, installed in minutes, with Metal on your Mac’s GPU. VMPal Tools add the clipboard and drag &…

Superior sound control for your Mac

I just received a package from California from a fellow called Michael Yim. He got in touch some time ago. I think I’d seen his miniature CRT monitor MS-DOS prompt toy available online, and I…

Seems there is a bit of a rumble on the web at the moment about a ‘vibe-coded‘ suite of applications, called ArtCraft. These are said to be”clones” of leading Adobe and…

This document offers definitions and descriptions of commonly referenced acronyms, names, features and more that appear in published Android and Android Enterprise documents both here on bayton.org…

Quote of the Day Analysts describe the Tesla Roadster as a halo car intended to highlight the company’s engineering capabilities. The vehicle is not primarily designed to generate immediate…

[In Europe, anyway, where regulators do this funny thing called “regulating”.] I’ve previously noted that Tesla’s claimed “Full Self-Driving” isn’t, and that the name ought to be illegal. Over in…

The tech & services I use to make life a wee bit easier

Grey is now an available color for the Honda S2000, as long as updated instructions for every color in today’s quality standard.

Cursor's $60 Pro+ plan is now a legacy subscription, replaced by a $100 Super plan that bundles Grok and bills Claude, GPT, and Gemini at API rates from the first request. Inference is getting…

Most of us have a folder somewhere full of Publisher files. Worksheets, word mats, certificates, class newsletters, display labels, and the sports day programme someone made years ago that everyone…

Descargas Android: Descargar Mister Clean v0.1.2 Guía para Android Descarga el APK de Mister Clean. Si Android lo solicita, permite instalar aplicaciones desde el navegador. Abre el archivo…

Introducing TeamSBC Linux For the past few years I’ve been working on bootc based operating systems through my work on image-builder. Before that I worked on ostree based operating systems as…

You can spend a fortune on monitors and a chair and still end up with the ugliest part of your desk being the power. A tangle of daisy-chained strips, mismatched adapters, a phone charger fighting…

Last night I updated all my Apple devices to MacOS 27. So far so good. Going through my phone settings I noticed that the 'Siri and Apple Intelligence' is now just named 'Siri'. Before I had opted…

I don’t love N26. And this is particularly difficult for me to write. In case you haven’t noticed, I have spent a fair amount of time writing and thinking about Necromunda as a game since…

I have thousands of plugins installed on my computer — and yes, I don’t use half of them. This is why I built Audio Plugin Census. It scans every plugin on your system, including VST, VST3, AAX and…

Here’s what was happening to a Surface computer. You boot it up and it asks for BitLocker keys. You input the correct BitLocker keys, and then it asks for them again.

<p>Every now and then you come across some incredible engineering that you just have to share.</p> <p>This is one of those videos. Strap in and enjoy.</p>

If you teach or present with an iPad, avoid iPadOS 27. - A brief digression from my usual teaching posts to complain about a devastating regression in iPadOS 27. If you’ve followed my work up until…

Revisit Midnight Commander’s familiar blue panels, learn how to install it on Ubuntu, and use its keyboard shortcuts to manage files in the terminal. The post Revisiting Midnight Commander: A Classic…

Youtube search filter now only goes back one year. They wont let you lookup unloaded videos for instance between the years 2010-2015

DeepSeek opened its search API with authority scores and a promise to filter SEO and GEO spam. I spent $0.08 testing what it actually returns.

List of languages used by Apple's App Store

Arch Linux ARM on the ASUS ProArt P16, with a bootable installer, published Windows comparisons, and local Qwen inference.