Computers

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Why do My Laptops Hate Me?

16 Jan 2026 4 minute read 4 comments rah $0.13

"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...

How I Escaped the Flatpak/Snap Bloat and Reclaimed My Linux

16 Dec 2025 3 minute read 0 comments Andy Savage $0.01

You don’t have to accept the trade-offs others make for you. The tools for efficiency and integration still exist—they just require the will to use them. It started with a simple comparison. I found an application I used daily: as a native .deb pac...

Co-Pilot - A Short Review

31 Oct 2025 3 minute read 5 comments rah $0.34

Introduction Copilot is an AI Tool integrated into Microsoft Edge. On the whole I still prefer Google, but I am stacking up reward points to exchange for Amazon Gift Cards (it all helps). In less than a year I have managed more than 30,000 which in t...

Personal AI Supercomputers are a Reality

8 Jan 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Matthew Rosenquist $0.06

We get closer every quarter to being able to functionally accomplish real-time deepfake capabilities from our phones - which will usher in a new era of fraud. The miniaturization of very powerful AI stacks will eventually make it into our mobile devi...

Replacing the Keyboard Set on My MSI GE76 Raider

2 Oct 2024 3 minute read 0 comments WinterYeti $0.09

Holy shit. Yep, that probably summed up the article in two words. Generally, I'm the type who likes to be able to fix things on my own. I don't like the idea of spending huge amounts of money for someone else to do what I can learn, with a bit of eff...

Why I'm Going to Keep my 22-Year-Old Truck

28 Sep 2024 1 minute read 2 comments WinterYeti $0.06

Cars have a come a long way in the last two decades or so. Where before they have had may one computer for managing sensors and providing readings to help determine diagnostics and optimum running, today a typical vehicle has dozens of computers and...

Today's AI Isn't What We Imagined in the Jetsons

20 Sep 2024 3 minute read 2 comments WinterYeti $0.05

Like most things with new technology, the reality of how new tools come about and how they work usually doesn't match what we imagined it would be. For many years the idea of artificial intelligence was played with in books and then Hollywood with a...

Computing is Today's Paradigm

4 Jul 2024 2 minute read 2 comments Debesh Choudhury $0.16

We used to learn mathematics and then physics in school. Earlier, this was the usual path of thinking behind learning. People used to figure out modern physics and engineering through mathematical elaborations. Now, we are starting to see a parad...

AI may erupt like a volcano! But ...

17 Jun 2024 1 minute read 0 comments Debesh Choudhury $0.06

AI is more than a hype. Every Internet user knows something about Artificial Intelligence (AI). AI has graduated with much hope, from hype to a super-hype. Every company wants to adopt AI for their business in some way or the other. However, nob...

Elon Musk will Ban OpenAI-ed Apple

10 Jun 2024 1 minute read 8 comments Debesh Choudhury $0.13

Today, Elon Musk announced a decision about OpenAI and Apple. "If Apple integrates OpenAI at the OS level, then Apple devices will be banned at my company. That is an unacceptable security violation," posted Elon Musk today. Screenshot Source  It...