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Power Issues Again

25 Aug 2026 1 minute read 0 comments rah

Some time ago I wrote here on POx about the misfortunes I have with my laptops and highlighted many of the problems I have faced including most dramatically the laptop that I had which was allergic to electricity! It was fine on battery power but as...

AI as a Tool for Interior Design (2)

30 Jul 2026 5 minute read 0 comments rah

Following on from yesterday's post I am going to give one more demonstration from a different room in my childhood home before drawing some conclusions. I think between the two posts there is enough material to give a sense of what I am trying to dem...

Linux: Cooking Experiences With Different Distros So Far

3 Jun 2026 13 minute read 4 comments WinterYeti

I've been a big fan of Linux OS distros ever since Windows pissed me off royally with its move to subscriptions and the fact that I build older hardware computers as a cheap hobby. It fits right into my mentality of finding new purpose for things peo...

Building The Clockwork Pi uConsole

24 May 2026 8 minute read 3 comments Investigator515

The uConsole can be turned into a very useful, portable SDR station. Get your own Clockwork Pi by visiting our publication partners over at Open Source SDR Lab. Use the code “radiohackers” at checkout for an extra 5% off. The Raspberry Pi is a fun...

HoneyGain: Pointless Busy Bees?

20 May 2026 2 minute read 1 comment rah

Those of us who have been around the cryptoverse for a while will inevitably have come across HoneyGain, a bandwidth‑sharing app, which fundamentally is a crowd‑sourced residential proxy network. It may have been through onsite advertising (particula...

The Quantum Apocalypse is coming…but not in the way you think

18 Apr 2026 5 minute read 0 comments Learn With Hatty

If you’ve spent any time scrolling through tech news lately, you’ve probably seen the headlines. Quantum computing is usually portrayed as this mystical, glowing monolith that’s going to solve world hunger on Tuesday and break all of human privacy by...

Why is Microsoft Teams so S**t for Private Individuals?

13 Apr 2026 1 minute read 5 comments rah

It it just me I often wonder, because my experience of Microsoft Teams is so bad that I wonder how it every got beyond R&D. Skype wasn't perfect, but how I miss it. It is not that when it works it is terrible, it is perfectly capable and intuitive. O...

Why the Real Danger Isn't Killer Robots, It's the Speed of Change

12 Feb 2026 17 minute read 0 comments Learn With Hatty

Hey everyone! Welcome to another Learn With Hatty. In early 2020, a few people were whispering about a strange virus on the other side of the world. Most others were more concerned about weekend plans and maybe buying an extra bottle of hand soap. Th...

The Internet, Social Media and the Very Real Threat They Pose

17 Jan 2026 5 minute read 2 comments rah

The internet is wonder of modernity, but it is also a dark and sinister place just waiting to trap the unwary and innocent. Attitudes are often more shaped by the internet and its little brother social media than more traditional influences like the...

Why do My Laptops Hate Me?

16 Jan 2026 4 minute read 4 comments rah

"What no Post Today!" You might have found yourself asking this question yesterday with my distinct absence from posting. I have posted almost everyday since returning to regularly blogging in recent months, with the occasional Saturday or Sunday m...