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MakeUseOfby Brady Snyder22d ago
For better or worse, the 3.5mm jack is all but extinct on most modern smartphones. That means you probably own a pair of truly wireless earbuds for daily use, sacrificing sound quality for cordless...
MakeUseOfby Pankil Shah22d ago
I used to obsess over faster boot times. Faster felt better, so I did everything possible to shave off a few seconds.
MakeUseOfby Jonathon Jachura22d ago
Floor space runs out fast in a small shop. Every tool competes for the same handful of hooks, and anything that sits unused still eats a slot you can't spare.
MakeUseOfby Gregory Gibson22d ago
I totally get why vibe coding is so popular. Watching your ideas turn into a working app through a conversation almost feels like magic.
MakeUseOfby Afam Onyimadu22d ago
I never thought I'd have to self-host my password manager, and it wasn't about distrusting my server.
MakeUseOfby Oluwademilade Afolabi23d ago
I’d always mentally filed yt-dlp under “excellent tool I’ll use when I’m already at a keyboard.” Its Android setup involves Termux, Python, pip, and optional FFmpeg, which is perfectly reasonable...
MakeUseOfby Isaac Akinleye23d ago
I use my PC a lot, but honestly, I use my phone even more. That's where I keep my banking, chat, wallets, passwords, and basically the accounts that matter to me.
MakeUseOfby Judy Sanhz23d ago
I use Google Maps frequently, and my routine is to open it and enter my destination. Sure, I get the directions I need, but my trip could be a lot better if I did a few things before hitting the...
MakeUseOfby Varun Krishan23d ago
The first thing I do after buying an Android smartphone is install essential apps. Even in this age of streaming, I do consume a lot of locally stored content on my device.
MakeUseOfby Brady Snyder23d ago
I've used an Apple Vision Pro headset for two and a half years, and to be frank, it hasn't delivered the $3,500 experience I expected.
MakeUseOfby Brandon Miniman23d ago
When you're not using your phone overnight, the battery shouldn't be tanking. A properly-optimized phone should only lose 2-7% battery overnight, but if you're waking up to see your phone having...
MakeUseOfby Shaheer Khan23d ago
When it first debuted, DLSS was a promising technology. While far from perfect, it was a groundbreaking feature that helped RTX cards deliver more performance while handling demanding features like...
MakeUseOfby Rob LeFebvre23d ago
I still have a Thingiverse login. I can't tell you the last time I actually searched it first. Somewhere between the dead thumbnails, the search results full of reposted junk, and the AI-generated...
MakeUseOfby Yasir Mahmood23d ago
Three browser tabs, the same question pasted into each, and a lot of alt-tabbing to keep the answers straight.
MakeUseOfby Jack Mitchell23d ago
When it comes to authenticator apps, I’ve tried a few: Microsoft Authenticator, Authy, and Google Authenticator.
MakeUseOfby Suman Biswas23d ago
I won't blame anyone for never even looking at the PS5's streaming and home entertainment side. While the ninth-gen PlayStation got a lot of marketing push for its cutting-edge APU and 4K rendering...
MakeUseOfby Brady Snyder23d ago
When you buy a smartphone, you can expect its battery to degrade over time. The rechargeable batteries inside consumer electronics are consumable components, and eventually, they'll wear out.
MakeUseOfby Gavin Phillips23d ago
My inbox is a regular mish-mash of the useful, the pointless, and absolute bona fide scams. What surprises me is that I keep getting the same scams on repeat, even after marking them as spam.
MakeUseOfby Dan Selcke23d ago
George R.R. Martin is one of the most famous fantasy authors alive, thanks mainly to the success of his Song of Ice and Fire books, adapted by HBO as Game of Thrones.
MakeUseOfby Jonathon Jachura23d ago
The culprit is 802.11b backward compatibility, a holdover from 1999 that ships switched on in most home routers and quietly taxes everything connected to them.
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