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MakeUseOfby Shaheer Khan21d ago
When it launched in 2021, the RTX 3060 didn't land well, largely because it failed to deliver the "wow" factor its other 30-Series family members did.
MakeUseOfby Abhijith N Arjunan21d ago
I use Claude Code for many non-coding-based tasks, and I love most of what it does. Be it subagents, MCPs, or the many commands to streamline your results, Claude Code gets almost everything right!
MakeUseOfby Shimul Sood21d ago
I’ve used a Samsung phone for the past two years, and lately the battery has become one of my biggest frustrations.
MakeUseOfby Varun Krishan22d ago
While smartphones are improving every day with new hardware, not everyone has access to the latest flagship devices. The bottom line is: how long can you use a device before it starts lagging?
MakeUseOfby Bryan M. Wolfe22d ago
I walked around a Best Buy a few days ago and looked at hard drive prices, specifically internal ones.
MakeUseOfby Oluwademilade Afolabi22d ago
I like F-Droid a lot more than I like its official app. The repository has introduced me to some of my favorite open-source Android apps, but I’ve never particularly enjoyed using the regular...
MakeUseOfby Jack Mitchell22d ago
I recently realized I'd been using Google Chrome because I had to. 15 years, to the point that I was so deeply invested in the ecosystem that I thought there was no escape.
MakeUseOfby Robin John22d ago
I’ve always liked Google’s take on Android. Pixel phones are clean, easy to use, and don’t bury you under dozens of menus the moment you set them up.
MakeUseOfby Gavin Phillips22d ago
Your ISP's DNS probably works absolutely fine. Your internet works at roughly the advertised speed, you don't encounter many content blocks, and it turns domain names into IP addresses just as it...
MakeUseOfby Oluwaseun Bamisile22d ago
Chrome is arguably the best browser out there, at least number-wise. It holds over 69% of the global browser market share as of August 2026, according to StatCounter GlobalStats.
MakeUseOfby Gregory Gibson22d ago
I had a modest 100 GB free on my laptop, with one properly configured Windows virtual machine already occupying more than 20 GB.
MakeUseOfby Jonathon Jachura22d ago
Most people switch on the guest network once, read the password aloud to a room full of visitors, and never open that setting again. I treated mine the same way for years. Then it clicked.
MakeUseOfby Afam Onyimadu22d ago
For the longest time, I assumed the terminal was where you go if you needed something done the hard, geeky way.
MakeUseOfby Amir Bohlooli22d ago
A new phenomenon in the battery market is USB-C rechargeable AA batteries. USB-C is going everywhere and touching everything, and apparently that includes AA cells.
MakeUseOfby Dan Selcke22d ago
Project Hail Mary is one of the biggest movies of 2026 so far, a terrific adaptation Andy Weir's 2021 sci-fi novel that's equal parts brains and heart.
MakeUseOfby Dipan Saha22d ago
The release of DLSS laid the foundation for what was to come, and while initial reactions were mixed, it did prove one thing — upscaling was the future.
MakeUseOfby Afam Onyimadu22d ago
I started hosting Immich last year on my home server. I wrote about it at the time, and I was almost instantly sure that I wouldn't regret this decision.
MakeUseOfby Afam Onyimadu22d ago
I went looking for explanations for an increasingly strange overnight laptop behavior. It made me realize that my laptop had been keeping tabs on how much battery it was willing to spend while it...
MakeUseOfby Amir Bohlooli22d ago
There are plenty of hidden Android features, but one category that predates Android — and smartphones entirely — is shortcodes.
MakeUseOfby Oluwaseun Bamisile22d ago
If you ask me, clipboard history is arguably one of the best features ever added to Windows. I remember discovering this feature a few years ago, and it felt like I had just found the greatest...
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