Remember the Soup Nazi from the ’90s sitcom Seinfeld? His trademark was a bellicose no soup for you! if he decided he didn’t like you. Well, that’s what Uncle – the federal…

Anyone who spends their days inside Search Console knows that little nagging feeling: a page sits steadily in third position, yet the clicks are few, a CTR that looks like it belongs at the bottom of…

W Social has been experiencing major technical problems for over a week: it is effectively a ghost town, filled with thousands of new accounts that cannot use the platform.

Sony is deleting 551 purchased StudioCanal movies from PlayStation libraries on September 1, 2026 with zero refunds. Here's the full technical and legal breakdown This post first appeared at - The…

Yes: The environments capable of creating meaningful change are almost always the ones that shorten the distance between assumption and evidence – ensuring that learning happens before institutions…

Microsoft officially requires UEFI, Secure Boot, TPM 2.0, and a supported processor for Windows 11. A hardware enthusiast apparently looked at this list and decided to treat almost every individual…

With 16 cores, ECC memory, and 40 watts of typical power consumption, the Loongson 3C3000 initially sounds like a highly efficient server processor. The small addition “at 1.5 GHz” is, however,…

hate it when my phone tells me there's a software update and if you don't update the hackermans are going to get you! i know that's not what it says and i'm simplifying security risks. but it's every…

Everyone has an opinion about the marketing automation landscape, and who’s winning the market. But most of these… The post The state of marketing automation tools in 2026 appeared first…

I thought Linux package management was broken, but then a small annoyance I experienced in Windows 11 IoT Enterprise LTSC made me reconsider. To put this in context, it happened […]

# Watch update I'm now 16 days in and the watch still has 46% battery left! It was described as lasting 7-10 days but I could get three weeks out of this. Also, once it runs out of battery for the…

Gadgetbridge 0.92.0: Many new devices, many bugfixes and a new online feature¶ We're excited to announce the release of Gadgetbridge 0.92.0! This release comes with quite a few new supported…

When I signed up, I did so without installing an app to my cell phone. I signed up with the website, email, and SMS texting only. I had two-factor authentication enabled, and all that worked well. I…

Much of the daily work of news product management is translating critical thinking into business answers. That means challenging unsupported assumptions while drawing both inferences and conclusions…

I Brought Galileo’s Telescope to a Navy SEAL’s Gun Range Two optics, four centuries apart. Shawn sighting Galileo’s 1609 spyglass; I’m on a suppressed precision SigSauer Rattler .300 Blackout…

Egbert Schroeer has built two tools — both native to the Mac: Delivered by PolitePaul service

These days online typing tutors are a dime a dozen. I remember fondly my lessons with "Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing," which came on a CD. Worked great improving my accuracy 30 years after my in-person…

World's First Trillionaire is Killing the World's Poorest Children

Apple might have undone the macOS Tahoe menu icons decision , but this wasn’t the only contentious iconography issue in their ecosystem. On his blog, Jim Nielsen writes how Apple filed away so much…

Meta has new $299 smart glasses. I don’t want them. But, as I wrote for Stuff, I’d happily try some AirPods Pro for my eyes. Retroid released another retro doodad. It’s more or less…

This week we've had a series of terrific articles that celebrate Free and Open Source software, we discuss Valve's Steam Machine, and we discuss ways of opting out of the retail regime…

Recently I’ve been resisting buying another computer because I have so many used ones lying about, and I am not a heavy user or content creator by any means. I’ve always wanted a…

There are a couple of posts in today's On This Day in the marmot that I liked. (Those are links to the original posts in the archives, because On This Day changes every day. The latter (later?) one…

[Nicked from a later comment to the previous one.] Other OSes I've used with no CLI -- Psion EPOC 16 (x86, Series 3); EPOC 32 (Arm, Series 5); Symbian; PalmOS; NewtonOS; and on the desktop,…

Want to get my easy to follow Tech Tips in your email? Sign up for my daily Rick’s Tech Tips Newsletter! Note: The links in this post are affiliate links. Question from Angela: Rick, I have a…

It's often said that a night vision camera lets you see ghosts and paranormal activity that's not visible to the naked human eye, but how true is this claim?

In this episode, we join Martin Butler M1MRB, Chris Howard (M0TCH), Martin Rothwell (M0SGL), Frank Howell (K4FMH), Bill Barnes (WC3B) and Leslie Butterfields (G0CIB) to discuss the latest Amateur /…

In this episode, we join Martin Butler M1MRB, Chris Howard (M0TCH), Martin Rothwell (M0SGL), Frank Howell (K4FMH), Bill Barnes (WC3B) and Leslie Butterfields (G0CIB) to discuss the latest Amateur /…

Note: The links in this post are affiliate links. My “Pick” for today is this awesome Elegoo Uno Electronics Project Super Starter Kit w/ Tutorial. Do you have a child who loves to learn and…

I was watching a video by guitarist Rhett Shull. Pretty decent YouTuber if you’re into guitar. I am sometimes, I guess. Anyway, he seems like a pretty reasonable guy. He was encouraging guitar…

 The Greyshark Series 2 AUVs (autonomous underwater vehicles) developed by Fassmer Defence in Germany have distinctive biologically inspired hull forms to…

inText is about one thing: keeping your notes organized so you can always get back to the one you want, quickly, from whatever direction you happen to be coming from. You tidy up a little as you go,…

After one year of using Omarchy, the thing I value most is not the Linux setup itself. It is the learning environment I built around it.

Modern ad-driven technology companies like Meta, Google, YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram cannot invent genuinely novel user interfaces or interaction models. Their incentives are too misaligned with…

Hands are made to interact with the world. They lift a glass and feel its weight shift. They hold a hammer, adjust their grip, and sense resistance, pressure, texture, temperature, shape, and force.…

Which Pixel should you buy for GrapheneOS in 2026? Full comparison of Pixel 7a, 8a, 9a, 10a, and Pixel 10 for security support, value, and GrapheneOS compatibility. Updated June 2026 with Pixel 10a…

Much ink has been spilled on the negative externalities of optimizing for attention. Or whether they were externalities at all, given the politics of our tech oligarchs. The zone has definitely been…

It’s been years since I last wrote about Roku. The lack of discussion reflected the company having lost relevancy in video streaming despite reporting continued growth in customers and watch time.…

Paul Kafasis:Past icons weren’t just more expressive. They were also more usable. Having distinct shapes provided a useful way to tell icons apart. Tahoe eliminates that cue by forcing everything…

Dear readers, especially friends in Europe, I hope you are staying cool. There is no summer vacation for creator updates! This week there are updates for YouTube Shorts and Instagram viewers, YouTube…

I've been in the market for a portable computer for a while, ever since moving my main PC to the attic where it's too out of the way to use for quick tasks. I originally tried reviving my old ~2012…

We can't fix society with tech Just capturing this thought from an online friend. You are not going to fix anything, until we find some other core principles to build on. Like cooperation and…

1. It’s hot in London so I’ve been seeing a lot of handheld portable fans, usually with a strap so you can hang it round your neck. My faves are the ones with thermoelectric coolers in the middle of…

Yesterday, I shared Noah Smith’s observation that fifteen years ago, the internet was an escape from the real world — and now the real world is an escape from the internet. Smith recently…

Valve's Steam Machine is $1,049. Here are the mini PC alternatives that play the same games for less, and when the Steam Machine still wins.

Streamystats is the stats tool for Jellyfin. Watch history, library analytics, AI recommendations, custom watchlists, and a Year in Review that shows you exactly what you watched.

In my last post on Android platform integration I had suggested increasing the focus on Linux on mobile phones, due to Google’s ongoing attempts to close down Android for us. I have to follow that…

Above: an old radio dial, photographed by me in Turin, Italy, in 2011, with “Droitwich” highlighted. BBC Radio 4 Long Wave 198 closed down early in the morning on 27th June, from…

Status: Given to my partner (he then exchanged it for a Pixel 9a) I acquired the Google Pixel 6 in somewhat of a rush. I was using the OnePlus 5t as a daily driver and I was enjoying it quite much,…

Things I found, read, did, and produced this past week. Things I consumed The RAM shortages really hit hard this week across consumer electronics. That included: The Steam Machine that was fully…