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Could flipping Raise wrist to wake and Always On Display (AOD) improve battery life?

2026-08-312026-08-31 Danie
Close-up of a wristwatch with a black dial and rubber strap worn on a person's arm, with a blurred background.

This is an interesting option to try (I have a Pebble watch, so battery life is not an issue). The theory is that raising the wrist normally kicks the full CPU on to check time, […]

Blogbatterylife, technology

Scientist learns in front of peers why we cannot trust AI Blindly

2026-08-292026-08-29 Danie
Man in suit speaking into a microphone at a conference with a blurred audience in the background.

“Sutter’s cringe-inducing tale perfectly illustrates how many users of AI tools are putting themselves at risk without knowing it, including in the most rarefied echelons of academia. The science world has been inundated with poorly-researched […]

BlogAI, technology

Image Toolbox is an open source Android app for social media creators

2026-08-282026-08-28 Danie
Screenshot of an Image Toolbox app with options for Single Edit, Resize and Convert, Format Conversion, and Crop functions.

“For you, as a content creator, the tools that matter the most are batch processing, format conversion, the 61 built-in export presets sized for platforms like Instagram, X, and YouTube, background removal, and watermarking. The […]

Blogcontentcreation, opensource, socialmedia, technology

HAMgpt Launches as a Personal AI Copilot Built Specifically for Amateur Radio

2026-08-282026-08-28 Danie
A friendly robot with headphones promotes HAMGPT, an AI copilot for amateur radio, alongside radio gear, notebook, laptop, and coffee mug.

“Unlike a general-purpose chatbot, HAMgpt is built around the real operating situation of each ham. It can take into account the operator’s license class, country, grid square, radios, antennas and operating history, then combine that […]

BlogAI, amateurradio, hamradio, technology

The Days Of Broadcast Digital TV Could Be Numbered

2026-08-262026-08-26 Danie
Old television partially submerged in muddy floodwater with a faint reflection of a person and electrical wires.

“When the analogue TV signals were turned off in most places around fifteen years ago, their replacement took the form of a set of digital multiplexes. ATSC for North America, and DVB-T for Europe and […]

Blogdisasters, radio, technology

Quest VR Headset Becomes Unlocked Hardware

2026-08-262026-08-26 Danie
Digital art of a person in a green futuristic suit wearing a high-tech VR headset with a surprised expression on a blue hexagonal background.

“The Quest virtual reality headset gets a fully unlocked bootloader thanks to the QuestStack tool, which automates a complex process of privilege escalation to provide stable, privileged access to the hardware. This solidly frees the […]

Blogtechnology, VR

I tested out the new Elecrow ThinkNode M9 with MeshCore Decentralised Radio Network

2026-08-252026-08-25 Danie
Elecrow ThinkNode M9 MeshCore radio that looks just like an old Blackberry phone

For those who don’t know, MeshCore (similar to Meshtastic and same hardware LoRa radios) is a decentralised radio network that runs in the license free bands. It’s a great way of being in contact with […]

Blogmeshcore, opensource, technology, thinknodem9

Jellyfin Playlist Membership — Easily browse Jellyfin Music song titles to add or remove from playlists

2026-08-222026-08-22 Danie
Screenshot of Jellyfin Playlist Membership interface showing a list of songs, artists, albums, and playlist tags in a dark-themed UI.

I wanted to quickly see which of my song titles are already in which playlists, and to quickly add them to other playlists or remove them etc. There is just no view that does this […]

BlogJellyfin, music, opensource, technology

Moving your Linux home folder to a dedicated drive is the distro-hopping secret I wish I knew earlier

2026-08-192026-08-19 Danie
Laptop screen shows a disk partition editor with a pop-up to edit an ext4 partition mounted at /home during OS installation.

“Home is where the heart is. On Linux, home is where everything personal to you is: your documents, downloads, screenshots, and configuration. In fact, your home is so special, you really ought to be showing […]

Bloglinux, technology

The Powerful Chinese AI Model Experts Warned About Is Here

2026-08-182026-08-18 Danie
Chat interface showing a conversation with the GLM-5.2 language model from Z.ai on a dark-themed screen.

The “best” model is not always the “best” model for you. Why I say this, is because Z.ai’s model is still outperformed in some dimensions by proprietary models from Anthropic for example. But can you […]

BlogAI, archiving, technology

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