A sort of review after one year with Linux (Mint and Fedora), covering some of the things I've noticed, what I like, the issues I've had, and what I'd recommend. Read more

SpecCat.com is a web site I’ve made, mainly for myself trying out LLMs, for easily comparing detailed specifications of different silicon chips; CPUs, APUS, GPUs etc. as shown in screenshots of…

There is a fundamental inconsistency between what consumers expect from transportation and what today’s electric vehicle market actually delivers. Most people want more comfort and less…

I admit it: I’m an operating system addict. I’ve installed countless operating systems over my life, and I still use many of them. It may seem like a bad idea. It isn’t. I jump…

Acorn 8.6 is out! The big new things are: A new brushing engine that has been rewritten using Metal shaders. It includes an option for “velocity thinning”, where the faster you draw your brush…

Some brief science and technology items heading into the weekend: IBM has reported making prototype chips for the "0.7 nm node" . As always, one should not interpret that size scale literally, since…

Jason Snell, in The Talk Show , as transcribed (and ably commented) by Marcin Wichary : The new features with problems is not a crime. It happens. The crime is: they never fix the problems. And…

TL;DR: I spent a good chunk of this week trying to drag a 14-year-old MacBook Pro into the present by way of every Linux distro that would boot, got a screen full of static for my trouble, and…

Go ahead, point and laugh. Call me a nerd. I can’t help it. I am always making a spreadsheet about something. Too many browser tabs? Put them all in a spreadsheet. Forget what all your hobbies/active…

Paul Kafasis on the Rogue Amoeba Blog: Free The Icons: With last year’s release of MacOS 26 (Tahoe), Apple made a mess of app icons. In the first betas of MacOS 27 (Golden Gate), however, there are…

The SEO industry lost one of its most important figures. Bruce Clay, widely recognized as the Father of SEO, has passed away. And I lost a friend. I’ve been sitting with this news, trying to…

Samsung confirms Galaxy S26's pixel-level privacy display, using dedicated hardware to block shoulder surfing. Customizable and part of Knox security.

Our phones stopped working this morning, or perhaps last night, but everything looked fine on Boom’s Web site. I contacted their support, and as always they got back right away, but this time…

begin

Since the SpaceX IPO earlier this month, speculation about SpaceX entering the mobile market has reached fever pitch, most recently in an FT article that cites comments made by Gwynne Shotwell to…

What is Brave OriginBrave is great as a browser, but most of the side products just add noise to the user experience, and users are not happy about it.Because of that, in June 2026, Brave launched

After my last post, I pulled the trigger and went with an iPad Pro 11” with Apple Pencil Pro and Magic Keyboard case. Thankfully I got it the night before the massive Apple price hikes (although it…

If my scan rate at UPS was this slow, I would have been fired. A recent video online shows a humanoid robot sorting packages, mostly just flipping them label side up so they can be scanned. It was…

Jinwen Wei and Liangcai Cao, "Compact Neural Pancake Camera for High-Perceptual-Quality Foveated Imaging," ACS Photonics (2026). Link: https://doi.org/10.1021/acsphotonics.6c00691 Pancake…

Apple erhöht die Preis, quer durch alle Produkte. Wer demnächst Hardware kaufen will, sollte deshalb schnell handeln, solange es noch Lagerbestände zu alten Preisen im Handel gibt. Hier eine Liste…

Blanket is an app that plays several ambient sounds. It is a nice looking app with light and dark themes too. One thing I love is the ability to turn more than one sound on and adjust the volume for…

This may sound far-fetched, but I already found that iCloud remotely triggers iMessage sign-in and sync (as well as FaceTime sign-in). I have circumstantial evidence that iCloud also remotely enabled…

Tim Cook announced pretty significant price increases to Apple's hardware line this week. The increases came because of component shortages that have been happening for the past few months. Apple is…

TOASTERS ARE BACK BABY

The National Institute of Industrial Property (INPI) published Public Call No. 01/2026 to select success stories related to the strategic use of intellectual property assets. The initiative aims to…

One of the interesting things about having a 2×1 call sign is that you are one of only 26 people (or clubs) with that same format and prefix. Since I already had looked into the history of my new…

Great tools stay approachable at the beginning, but reveal deeper capability as users grow into them.

A customer at Marsh’s supermarket in Troy, Ohio, made the first purchase of a product with a barcode — a 10-pack of Wrigley’s Juicy Fruit Gum.

For most of the twentieth century, you couldn't buy a Coca-Cola in the Soviet Union. It was one of the most American things in existence, and like Levi's and Michael Jackson, the Iron Curtain kept it…

Why the Steam Deck is the best handheld I've ever owned: PSP emulation with RetroDeck and streaming my Xbox through Greenlight, all because it's an open Linux device.

The Board overturned a refusal to register the mark ONETOUCH for "Agricultural machines, namely, aerators, seeders, spreaders," finding that Applicant Stinger's specimens of use were acceptable. The…

Happy to say I only ever had Netflix for one winter, long ago, even then I noticed after two months that there was a looot of filler and slop. A way cheaper or even free alternative to Netflix -that…

As of today, I run my phone Google free (at least everywhere I can influence). With pure LineageOS 23.2 No Google account No Google Play Store or compatible clients like AuroraStore No Google Play…

Here’s what’s happening in the thriving tech scene in Tampa Bay and surrounding areas for the week of Monday, June 29 through Sunday, July 5! This list includes both in-person and online events. Note…

I have been using Flameshot to capture my screen if I need to post something on my desktop and share it with other people. It was working just fine until I tried to play with Plasma 6.7.x in Wayland…

I attended the high school graduation party for a family friend at a local park. My daughter was watching a couple younger kids on the playground and called me over. She was impressed with this…

The sagas. They continue. The drone life, or lack thereof, is not just one saga, but many sagas. Prompted by my colleague, friend, and fellow blog journeyman, Gardner Campbell, I am providing an…

At the application layer, moats are lagging, earned through scale & brand. At infrastructure, capital intensity demands a leading moat at founding.

Overview and history of browsers on head-mounted extended reality devices, such as those by Oculus/Meta, Google, Vive, and Apple. Covering browsers available on the devices and the functionality…

Hartley Charlton, reporting for MacRumors: After temporarily taking it down earlier today, Apple’s online store is back up with a series of product price increases. The changes are as follows:…

Tyler Hoffman returns to the show to discuss diagnostics and observability data in embedded systems. We catch up on his life after startup acquisition, explore the hows and whys of keeping product…

“It just needs to get me across France and back, and then I’ll replace it.” Those were my words after a rather large bill that sealed my Volvo V60’s fate. A few months ago, I…

In the beginning... Years ago, I remember someone telling me about a great website where you could connect with people in business and build your network: it was called LinkedIn. I joined, and became…

How Parall creates native macOS app shortcuts for launching multiple independent app instances, including isolated browser and Dropbox workflows.

A DockLock story about the long-running macOS Dock jumping problem, the first fixes in DockLock Lite and Plus, and the DockLock Pro direction.

My first thought when I saw Cursor’s Origin announcement last week was: You could see this move coming a mile away My second thought was: Dang, GitHub really is under siege Cursor is now…

The Commerce Commission orders immediate improvements to telco debt practices and a revised disconnection code by end of 2026. Also: NZ domains hit a record high, a new cable surveillance system…

Well, that story woke you up! My comments about Adobe possibly missing a step with Lightroom provoked quite a few of you to send me an email. Indeed, more so than any other article this year, and by…

The post Databricks continues to soar as private company, but those margins are starting to shrink appeared first on Cautious Optimism.

Creatine not only helps you build muscle—new tests strongly suggest that it can help the body fight cancer cells. The tests are with mice, so there will need to be a lot of further research, but this…