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Self-hosting taught me more about servers in one month than years of reading ever did

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I uninstalled these apps and just use them in the browser — my PC has never been snappier

Claude says no more often than ChatGPT, and that's actually by design

I Replaced 5 Apps With Claude AI — and I'm Not Going Back

I made my phone’s charging port more useful with these three cheap USB-C adapters

I removed Samsung's bloatware from my Galaxy and it felt like a new phone

I stopped treating every DNS server the same after comparing these 4 popular options

The only 4 BIOS settings that actually matter for everyday performance (and how to find them)

RAID isn't a backup solution, please stop treating it like one

I reviewed the Lenovo Yoga 7 Slim Ultra and it almost made me enjoy Windows again

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