2026-07-27 03:00:10
My Fire TV Stick 4K (1st-gen) took almost 15 seconds to boot and a couple of more to load the home screen. Immediately, a full-scale banner of some Amazon Original, which I'd ignored a dozen times already, pops open. Half of the rows on that screen weren't the shows I'd watched. Instead, there were digital goods that Amazon wanted me to buy, subscribe to, or rent on top of what I already paid for.
2026-07-27 02:30:10
I've been gaming on a PC since I was about 10 years old, and PC gaming has never felt more like a relentless consumerist cycle than it does now. It feels like, to enjoy modern releases, you must periodically drop over $1,000 on new graphics cards, multicore desktop CPUs, and high-wattage power supplies just to keep up with ballooning system requirements.
2026-07-27 02:00:10
Windows Sandbox has a well-earned reputation for being the padded room where everyone tests questionable downloads. It's a perfect environment for checking out cracked tools, dubious installers from sketchy websites, and PowerShell scripts that came from someone you don't fully trust. That's what Sandbox was designed for, and it serves that purpose well. I've saved myself from a few bad decisions by testing things there first.
2026-07-27 01:30:10
Pairing network video recorder setups with security cameras is a great way to bolster your home’s security. But due to the privacy implications of storing surveillance footage on cloud providers, I tend to avoid them like the plague. With most manufacturers slapping AI-powered tracking services on their products, I’ve pretty much disconnected my surveillance cameras from their proprietary clouds and switched to the free and open-source Frigate to manage my camera streams.
2026-07-27 01:00:10
Whenever I hear the terms "PKM" or "second brain," I assume it's yet another app trying to be Notion or Obsidian. That was my initial impression of Capacities, too, but the interface was intriguing enough that I decided to try it out for a week and test how well it held up in comparison to my primary Obsidian vault. What I discovered surprised me. While Capacities does share some similarities with Obsidian, it's also different in several significant ways. I'd argue the biggest way is that it encourages you to organize your information differently; whereas you can drop a note into Obsidian without assigning any tags, Capacities asks you to at least loosely categorize the information.
2026-07-27 00:30:10
Linux Mint has spent years watching the rest of the Linux desktop move toward Wayland while Cinnamon stayed planted on X11. For a while, that caution made sense. Then it started to look less like patience and more like a growing list of work that would eventually have to be done anyway. Mint has finally reached the point where Wayland support in Cinnamon is close enough to X11 that the experimental label can come off, but the more important decision is what happens next: users won’t be shoved into the new session before the project has seen how it holds up outside the development team’s own machines.
