Fresh Windows installs often ship with apps most people never open, and some quietly keep running in the background. You can clean up much of this using only built-in tools, with no third-party debloaters or modified ISOs. Here is how to do it safely.
xTool has long been a big player in the personalization space, focusing primarily on lasers. Eventually, xTool released some lasers with CMYK inkjet print heads on them. However, earlier this summer, xTool launched the O1 Omni, its first UV printer, and I've spent the past few months with it. Here's why I think the xTool O1 Omni is a complete game-changer for small
Android dominates the smartphone market, and Google TV is a strong streaming platform. That same success hasn't followed Google's attempts with PCs — and it's not for lack of trying. Back in 2015, it tried to put a desktop OS in a streaming stick.
Bitdefender's new software checks AI agent actions before they happenAI Guardian blocks unauthorized actions from autonomous software agentsAI Guardian records agent decisions so users can examine individual operationsAI agents increasingly receive access to software tools, private files, and credentials while performing technical tasks for their users every day.That access creates another security problem because malicious instructions can influence what automated sy
Netflix's documentary collection is a rich place to explore titles for your watch list. Whether you are digging for a documentary on your niche interests or just looking for an entertaining watch for a night in, the streamer has quite a lot to offer.
<p>One day, OneDrive just appeared on my PC. Before I knew it, it was syncing files, backing up my entire desktop, and storing photos.</p><img src='https://static0.howtogeekimages.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/wm/2026/09/nextcloud-open-laptop.jpg' />
Did you know that you could use your Milwaukee M18 battery to power a fridge on the job site? What about using an M12 battery to stay warm with a powered jacket? Here are five fun things you didn't know you could use your Milwaukee batteries to do.
"The spec script gives you freedom to do whatever you want."Back when Twitter was fun, screenwriters would sometimes string together a series of tweets - what came to be known as "tweetstorms." Advice, personal anecdotes, reflections on the craft. It was pretty awesome.The only problem: Once the tweetstorm came ... it went.So, I took to contacting the writers and asking if I could reprint their tweetstorm at Go Into The Story. That way, they'd at least be stored where fo
<p>Anyone who knows me also knows I'm no big fan of laptops. As a PC builder for 20+ years, it'll surprise nobody that I prefer to just build my own thing instead.</p><img src='https://static0.howtogeekimages.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/wm/2026/09/acemagic-k5.jpg' />
<p>Android Auto is a great tool to use when driving. It lets you use the best of your phone and cast it to your infotainment system. You can connect wired or wirelessly, depending on what your car supports.</p><img src='https://static0.howtogeekimages.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/wm/2026/10/img_4919-1.jpg' />
Silicon Valley may be in the middle of an Artificial Intelligence gold rush but thousands of former senior programmes and tech workers aren’t feeling it. Those workers — until recently, used to ...<img src='https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1656185932915-21ad95a6d444?crop=entropy&cs=tinysrgb&fit=max&fm=jpg&ixid=MnwyMzg1fDB8MXxzZWFyY2h8MjB8fFRlY2glMjBKb2JzfGVufDB8fDJ8fDE2NTY5NzYwNjQ&ixlib=rb-1.2.1&q=80&w=1080' />
It's a frustrating situation when your gadgets become useless long before the hardware actually fails. You may have old devices stuffed in a drawer that are no longer supported or are simply outdated. Open-source software could give you a reason to pull them out of the drawer again.
I moved my homelab into a colocation rack (proper DC deployment with redundant power) a while ago. Things have been running smoothly, and a few favorable 2nd hand deals later I now have 128 cores (Epyc Zen 2), roughly 1TB of RAM and several dozen TBs flash and spinning storage running idle.It's all on spare enterprise-grade hardware (15th generation Dell PowerEdge, redundant SAS SSD/HDD arrays), interconnected with 25G. Uplink is 10G. It's utilizing number of external IPv4 address
I wanted a portable CPU implementation of kokoro for a project I am working on for a voice interface and found the current GGML/GGUF models were sometimes slower than python torch code. I love Kokoro for it's consistency and desired an easier way to integrate it into my projects. Focusing on a non-quantized SIMD yielded excellent performance for my targets. Theoretically portable to NEON and other accelerators though I have not tried. Hopefully useful for those of you looking for a les
Browsing through the Ask Hn: Who Wants to be Hired and Who's Hiring, and I'm still seeing coding skills like python being listed as attributes, especially on the Who Wants to be Hired. In the presence of an LLM, are these skills still relevant to the hiring process? What are the technical skills needed to pass interviews now?
<p>Here's a simple way I think about it:<br>Need editing?<br>→ Word<br>Need calculations?<br>→ Excel<br>Need searchable archive?<br>→ PDF<br>Need structured records?<br>→ JSON/CSV/XML<br>Need documentation?<br>→ Markdown<br>Need mathematical notation?<br>→ LaTeX<br>Need diagrams?<br>→ Mermaid/Graphviz<br>The OCR step is the same idea, but the output changes the entire workflow.</p>
Adding a PDF viewer to a React application is relatively easy.Adding an actual PDF editor is a different story.I recently needed a way to let users edit PDF documents directly inside a React application. I wanted something that could be embedded into an existing app without sending users to an external PDF editing service.That led me to build react-web-pdf-editor — a React package for adding browser-based PDF editing capabilities to React applications.📦 NPM Package:https://www.npmjs.com/package/
# I Built a Text-Based Survival Game to Test AI Morals. The Honest One Lost.It was 3:17 AM on a Tuesday when my simulation killed a child. Not because it had to. It killed the child because honesty was the most expensive option in a system that rewarded lie efficiency. Here is the postmortem. Full source below. No apologies.##
There are plenty of things you can do with an old Kindle, from loading it with children's books and giving it to your kids to trading it in for a newer model. You may be surprised by how much more you can do with an old Kindle. Here are five real projects that I've done with my jailbroken fourth-generation Kindle.
The Quest Begins (The "Why")Honestly, I was just trying to ship a feature that showed a user’s recent activity feed. The UI looked slick, the backend was a simple Rails API, and I felt like I’d nailed it. Then I opened the logs and saw hundreds of SQL statements scrolling by for a single page load. My heart sank – it was like watching the Death Star trench run and realizing every TIE fighter was a separate query. That moment was my “aha!” – the classic N+1 query problem rearing its ugly h
