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Before you buy a used graphics card, run these 3 checks first
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Buying a secondhand graphics card is perfectly fine. It’s also entirely justifiable in an era where corporations are hoovering up all of the PC …
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I stopped trying to script Windows automation and started using Claude instead
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I'm not well-versed in automating things on Windows. I know the concepts around Task Scheduler, PowerShell, batch files, and the like, but if I try …
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I stopped cleaning messy data by hand the day I discovered this built-in Excel feature
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Using Microsoft Excel is something that many people have had to do over the years, as it has been a requirement for many jobs or has been a useful …
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I replaced my cloud storage subscription with a NAS and the setup took one afternoon
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I’ve had enough of watching my money disappear into cloud storage subscriptions — that was exactly what I thought one Sunday afternoon while going …
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Your PC Is Secretly Hoarding 7GB of Storage
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Windows 11 keeps a chunk of storage hidden that you can clear out in minutes once you know where to look. Plus, more Windows storage tips to free up space.
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I used Claude and NotebookLM together for research and realized they're solving completely different problems
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Research assistance is one area where I rely on LLM-based AI platforms more frequently. Compared to other uses of generative AI, using AI chatbots to …