Tailscale is the only home lab change I made this year that I actually noticed
…Each agent is also tracked by Tailscale's ACLs and metrics, and I can see which ones are using the most tokens. Related AI agents are a security nightmare for home labs…
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I love NotebookLM, but its biggest update yet is making it feel less like itself (for better and worse)
…It's a tool that got upgrades here and there, sure, but it remained largely unchanged at its core for a long while. We were anticipating significant upgrades at I/O 2026…
ChatGPT finally got the memory transparency feature it needed — it still isn't enough to beat Claude
…It's paired with an upgraded memory system that shows you which past conversations and saved memories the model pulled from to shape its response. That's a really nice feature that…
I finally tried the Claude Chrome extension, and I regret waiting this long
…She always has an Windows computer handy and is always looking into upgrading. When she's not writing about tech, she's watching Return of the Jedi or playing with her Yorkie…
Frame generation promised smoother gaming, but it exposed new bottlenecks
…Related "Frame Gen" isn't a performance boost; it's a masking agent for bad optimization High frames mean nothing if they're not responsive. Frame generation makes bottlenecks harder to see…
Cloud AI is becoming cable TV: too many subscriptions, confusing limits, and bundles nobody asked for
…Pro is now split into two usage tiers, with higher limits for models, Codex, deep research, image generation, and agent mode. Anthropic Claude Pro, Max 5x, Max 20x Pro : $20/month. Max…
Linux desktops have been stuck in old habits, and Hyprland breaks that pattern
…The real upgrade behind Hyprland isn’t just tiling, though. It’s the feeling that the desktop is finally helping instead of merely staying out of the way. That’s why Hyprland…
Claude Opus 4.7 is overkill for most people, until you set it up this way
…It became apparent quickly that it's built for people who hand off multi-step work to an agent and walk away, which is not a workflow I have. The Reddit backlash…
After a year of self-hosting LLMs, I realized the real bottleneck isn’t the GPU
…To tie it all together, tools like AgenticSeek allow me to move from simple "chats" to actual workflows, offloading repetitive tasks to autonomous agents . When your AI is woven into your files…
I ran a powerful local AI model on my laptop, and it didn’t feel like a compromise
…For the first time, taking your workflows entirely off the cloud doesn’t feel like a compromise; it feels like an upgrade. Related I ran Gemma 4 and Qwen 3.5 for…