Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE) version 7 is available now. For people who like Debian more than Ubuntu and Linux Mint’s Cinnamon more than anything, this is the perfect choice. LMDE 7 “Gigi” Released: Linux Mint’s Debian-Based Alternative Gets Major Upgrade A
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Arduino has been the cornerstone of embedded electronics projects for a while now. Be it DIY remote-controlled vehicles, binary clocks, power laces, or as is relevant to the month of publishing, flamethrowing Jack-O’-Lanterns! The versatility and affordability of the board has been
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When I started experimenting with AI integrations, I wanted to create a chat assistant on my website, something that could talk like GPT-4, reason like Claude, and even joke like Grok. But OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and xAI all require API keys. That
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The e-ink display technology arrived on the scene as the answer for a long list of issues and desires people had with digital book reading. The strain on the eyes, the distractions, the low battery life—all of it fixed in one swoop.
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In the previous newsletter, I asked what kind of advice someone looking to switch from Windows to Linux would have. I got so many responses that I am still replying to all the suggestions. I am also working on the ‘Windows to
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SunFounder’s Pironman cases for Raspberry Pi are a huge hit. This bestselling device converts the naked Raspberry Pi board into a miniature tower PC. The RGB lighting, OLED display and glass casing make it look cool. Full HDMI ports, NVMe ports and
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My interest in running AI models locally started as a side project with part curiosity and part irritation with cloud limits. There’s something satisfying about running everything on your own box. No API quotas, no censorship, no signups. That’s what pulled me
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Microsoft is all set to kill existing methods to set up a local account on fresh Windows 11 installs. I am not really surprised. This is Microsoft being Microsoft. Microsoft Kills Windows 11 Local Account Setup Just as Windows 10 Reaches End
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From GitHub repositories to technical documentation, Markdown is an extremely popular lightweight markup language. Basically, markdown files are plain text, but they follow certain syntax and when they are rendered, you see a beautiful document with headings, bullet points, code boxes and
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