Jul 04, 2026 from splitbrain.org - blog Retractable Cable USB-C Chargers (65W PD) Retractable Cable USB-C Chargers (65W PD) Like all my other modern electronics, my Framework Laptop1) charges via USB-C. When I got it, I bought a Ugreen Nexode charger, an Anker Powerline Flow III...
Jul 04, 2026 from Hackaday Disk Polishing Goes Open Source Optical media is great — it’s pretty high density, relatively durable, and decently long-lasting if well cared for. If not well cared for, well, it’s only relatively durable, and we’ve …read more
Jul 04, 2026 from Ambient Irony Daily News Stuff 4 July 2026 Birthday Edition Top Story Happy birthday, America! You don't look a day over 240! (Actually you look a lot better than you did at 240, but we won't go into that.) US life expectancy is expected to...
Jul 04, 2026 from Hackaday Time Never Moves Slowly With This Clock A clock is by its very nature a device for measuring time, and thus it moves forward at a constant rate. But how about in a theatrical setting, where time …read more
Jul 04, 2026 from GadgeteerZA This Linux storage feature feels like cheating once you understand it “Copy-on-write (CoW) changes that bargain in a way that almost feels like cheating. Instead of rushing to overwrite old blocks, a CoW file system writes the changed data somewhere else and then upd...
Jul 04, 2026 from GadgeteerZA Here’s what end-to-end encryption protects—and what it doesn’t “Earlier in May, the Texas Attorney General’s office sued Meta for deceiving users on the level of security offered by end-to-end encryption on WhatsApp. E2EE is used as a catch-all term to describ...
Jul 04, 2026 from Stranger Than Usual Rollenspielszenen: Der Gruppenheiler Als nach dem Kampf alle Gruppenmitglieder für Heilung zu Fredegar kommen, versteht Fredegar, warum die Klerikerin Celeste immer so genervt war.
Jul 04, 2026 from GadgeteerZA David Potter, the man who put Psion in the palm of your hand, logs off at 82 “South African-born pioneer of the British tech industry David Potter, the man behind the iconic Psion pocket computers, passed away on 28th June, six days before his 83rd birthday. Potter was the ...
Jul 04, 2026 from Hackaday Yesterday’s Technology, Re-engineered Today Watching [sprite_tm]’s build of a handheld 486-based gaming computer, we got to thinking about retro computers and the eternal questions of how much of the computer needs to be actually …read more
Jul 04, 2026 from Kev Quirk This blog is written in en-GB This blog is written in en-GBby Terence EdenTerrence talks about some of the wonderful idiosyncrasies of the British language and that, no, he won't be making his writing more global.Read post ➡ I ...
Jul 04, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Plex Lifetime Pass price is now $750 as Plex adds a new 5-year recurring pass at $250 Plex’s new Lifetime Plex Pass price has been in effect since July 1, raising the cost for new customers from $249.99 to $749.99 (three times the original). The increase was first announced in May, ...
Jul 04, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net GitHub will offer limited CD-ROM copies of public repos as Sony drops physical games In an ironic and unusual move, GitHub has announced a new limited initiative that lets developers request a CD-ROM copy of one public GitHub repository. Eligible users can apply in this link for on...
Jul 04, 2026 from Hackaday Five Solar Air Heating Methods Tested For as good as solar panels are at converting sunlight directly into usable electricity, especially for how cheap they’re becoming, they can still only gather around 20-30% of the energy …read more
Jul 04, 2026 from It's FOSS Brave Says This is Not a Privacy Feature, But Using Containers Has Its Perks Brave Browser 1.92 introduces support for Containers that isolate cookies and site data per tab.
Jul 04, 2026 from Hackaday Warp Point: a Web Ring for Gaming Sites Built for 2026 At one point in time web rings were one of the best ways to find content on the World Wide Web — involving not just a directory of participating sites, …read more
Jul 04, 2026 from Hackaday Building A Wireless Fingerprint Authorization Device Once upon a time, there was a bit of a fad for fingerprint authentication in laptops and desktop computers. It has long since faded, but [superdog] wanted just such a …read more
Jul 04, 2026 from Hackaday Microdistillery for Microchemistry Much like radio operators being encouraged to use the least possible amount of power to make a contact, chemists have a similar rule encouraging using the least amount of materials …read more
Jul 03, 2026 from Hackaday A New Twist on the To Do List Humans are odd creatures, and no two are exactly alike, which is likely why so many different methods exist for tracking the progress of tasks that must be accomplished. [Simone …read more
Jul 03, 2026 from Stranger Than Usual Das Dr. Oetker Schulkochbuch Über ein Kochbuch meiner Mutter, dass sie von meiner Oma geerbt hat.
Jul 03, 2026 from GadgeteerZA I ran the same SSD health check on Linux and Windows—only Linux gave me the full picture OK this was not “me” obviously, as I run Linux as my main OS. But interesting as I always thought CrystalDiskInfo was the best tool out there for SSD checking (or maybe that was the marketing PR th...
