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I gave my smart home its own DNS and finally stopped my privacy settings from breaking it

The most ignored port in your house is on the back of your router

I gave a decade-old PC NVMe storage without replacing the motherboard

I found a much better way to use my Android phone from Windows than Phone Link

10 years later, people are still buying Nvidia's Android TV streamer because of this

My offline music library finally has Spotify-style lyrics, without Spotify

These Ryobi tools are worth owning even if you never do DIY

I can’t use a Galaxy phone without swapping this Samsung app for a Google one

I tried the aluminum foil Wi-Fi trick everyone swears by, and here's what actually happened

I swapped 5 built-in Windows apps for open-source ones for a month, and only 3 survived

Google's Dreambeans finds stories on its own, and it's the first AI app I want to keep

Google Maps remembers more about your life than you probably realize