A couple years ago, GM made waves by saying that soon, all their new cars would be completely free of Apple's CarPlay and Android Auto support, instead opting for the "Android Automotive…

The Target Date Comes First Consulting engagements do not begin with a research plan. They begin with a deadline. By the time a consultant is brought in, the brief is limited, the objectives are…

Creator-commerce platform ShopMy de facto runs an affiliate network, joining a variety of incumbents who have operated in this space for literally decades. Merchants considering running two or more…

We bought a new car. A Kia EV5 in fact. Why did we pick that one, and how is it going?

My phone used to be my biggest source of distraction. Here's how I turned it into a focused tool using a hidden iOS feature.

Zac Hall, 9to5Mac: The new Meta AI desktop app is version 1.0 beta at launch and weighs just 16MB once installed. Based on initial inspection, it runs natively on Apple silicon Macs with macOS 15 or…

1 min read As both public institutions and the physical landscape decline, spending on vehicles shifts from status to defensive consumption, driving people to build luxury ‘sensory bunkers’ that…

The switch to maining Linux across all my devices was not a rollout that happened overnight. Though I'd made sure that my laptops always had some distro running in place of Windows. With the many…

When a Chinese company first came to London to build an enterprise business, it hired a batch of local salespeople for the relationships they held. It didn't amount to much, and the hires were let go…

For some reason, Google Calendar doesn’t make your shared calendar subscriptions available on other devices out of the box. To make them sync, use this unlinked legacy page:…

Disable AI slop and bloatware in Chrome and Firefox.

A three-week test of OpenAI's ChatGPT ads beta for a B2B WordPress product: how the platform works, what it costs, the results we measured, and who it's actually for.

Does the world really need another 1176 plugin? The folks at MixWave and Grammy-winning mixer Patrizio “Teezio” Pigliapoco certainly think so. Together they’ve partnered to develop…

Culture College students are experiencing an increase in loneliness since the pandemic. People love to judge people for putting their children in daycare, and also for not putting their children in…

Juli Clover, reporting for MacRumors: Apple is working on camera-equipped AirPods that appear to be nearly ready to launch, based on a video MacRumors found in the macOS Tahoe 26.7 release candidate.…

review jolla phone sailfishOS Impressions After Two Days With SailfishOS on the Jolla Phone Hot pros and cons of the new Jolla phone https://khleedril.org/blog/2026-08-19--jolla-impressions.html…

I have been working on integrating Btrfs snapshots into KDE software. The central part of this work has been realized in the form of KIO Snapshot , which has just been released. Here I want to…

I was interrupted zero times writing this review. The post My new favorite piece of tech is 37 years old and costs $25 appeared first on Chris Bailey.

Although my business is to “stop the madness” on the web, I can’t seem to stop myself from the quixotic madness of posting articles on the web criticizing Apple’s curation of the App Store. Can my…

A recent trip to San Francisco gave me an opportunity to visit a lesser-known landmark, the Hammersmith building. Located at 301 Sutter Street, it was built in 1907 just after the 1906 quake and fire…

The Datatype font turns text values into miniature charts. It’s like a magic trick that turns data values in your Sheet into sparklines, but without the complexity of the sparkline formula.…

Ever wanted to get your zen AND your game on at once? Boy, have we got the thing for you...

Linus Torvalds released Linux 7.2 as expected on August 16th, which means a lot of my changes and reviews will hit a lot of machines around the world (and hopefully won’t cause any serious bugs!).

Twelve years ago, Mac OS X Yosemite stomped the aqua out of the stoplight buttons, leaving us with the flattened circles we see today. Until this week’s Golden Gate beta, of course! macOS Golden Gate…

It’s been 8 months since I last bought gasoline. Last December I took delivery of my Hyundai Ioniq 5, a battery electric car (BEV), which I mostly charge at home in my garage. So when I…

New episode of Cortex today:Myke talks to Mark Gurman of Bloomberg about his workflow for reporting on Apple, building and verifying sources, balancing speed with accuracy, and how publishing a scoop…

The new Instagram wordmark just made its debut and as you can imagine, people have a lot of opinions on the new look. The post What Do You Think of the New Instagram Wordmark? appeared first on…

Recently I wrote about my disbelief in how OpenSuse, in a time where Europe is debating sovereignty, is never ever even mentioned. But let's not hang around too much in that muddied pond, it looks…

I find skeuomorphism annoying. My 250ppi screen is the culmination of centuries of technological advancement, I don't need to have it show clock hands to make telling the time feel more "natural". So…

Early this year, I set up Linux Mint dual boot with Windows 11, coming back to desktop Linux after so many years: Return to Linux While my time with Linux Mint has generally been good, I have been…

A little less than six years ago, I started looking at moving from Doggcatcher to Podcast Republic. 24 Hours later I was pretty happy with my choice. Time and technology march on and, while looking…

This is one of those times where I feel like I’ve been living under a rock.

I’ve been wanting a Linux Laptop with a good display for a while. For years my go-to option for non-Apple laptops was HP (mostly) but I got tired of the poor displays. I picked up an Asus…

At the end of every creative brief is a box for the proposition. This has long been held up as the most important part; the single-minded message. The proposition is what we ask creative teams to…

My take on how every "smart" product is a future headache, and the quiet superpower of choosing the dumbest things that work 100% of the time.

Every software product has its own grammar: Figma has frames and components, Salesforce has accounts, contacts, and opportunities, CAD has tools and constraints. Capability and required expertise…

I'm releasing a new iOS app that turns ordinary screenshots into beautiful visuals.

After going for a swim with my Apple Watch on, it stopped working the following days. Already two years ago, when I went swimming in salt water, its function to blow out water stopped working. Now,…

tl;dr I tested whether values tell you anything about a company. The answer is yes, just not about the company. Somewhere in the operating manual of modern tech is a rule that a company must publish…

spotify is trash! [YouTube embed] spotify took money from ice! you know, that organization tearing families apart? spotify took money from israeli prison companies! you know, like the ones doing...

I’m just reading through MacRumors today, and thinking about the new AirPods with camera, new HomePods, and an iPhone event in September. I realised that I have never been more bored and uninterested…

Had to chuckle quite a bit while reading this article: Dickovers, baggravation and botiquette: 18 new words to describe our tech hellscape 😂 Besides the initial Dickover, there are: AI-horning…

You either die a hero or live long enough to see your AI notetaker app make a smart ring

Yesterday, Stephen Hackett wrote about changes to the traffic light buttons in macOS Golden Gate beta 6. I think these new buttons are a big improvement, and the change gives me hope that other…

TL;DR Link to heading Library lending apps hand out .acsm files, which normally need Adobe Digital Editions to turn into a readable epub. ADE doesn’t run on Apple Silicon macOS. I built…

I bought a Kobo Libra Colour eReader for ~$250 and, while it's not the cheapest model, it's one of my greatest purchase of the year. I wanted to buy a reMarkable at first, but it is 2 to 3 times more…

Two quick thoughts about this: I understand the appeal: AirPods represent a unique opportunity for continuous interaction

the industrial revolution type of thing once again