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Renny Willins
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Apr 10 2026
Your Intel apps are doomed
In 2020, Apple did something truly remarkable. They decided that Intel—the company that has provided the “brains” for every serious computer since the dawn of time—was no longer invited to the party. They launched their own “M-series” chips, and to make sure the transition didn’t cause a global productivity meltdown, they gave us Rosetta 2. …
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Apr 10 2026
16GB of ram is NOT the figure to look at
It is one of the most enduring mysteries of the modern age. It ranks right alongside “Why do people eat kale?” and “How does a fax machine actually work?” You are talking, of course, about the catastrophic, brain-melting, universal confusion between Memory (RAM) and Storage (the Hard Disk). Every single day, someone can walk into …
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Apr 10 2026
A MESH network is the answer to your wifi woes
You’ve just sat down in the upstairs study with a gin and tonic, ready to watch a high-definition documentary about the history of the stapler. You click ‘Play,’ and what do you get? A spinning circle. A little grey ring of misery that tells you the internet, which you pay a king’s ransom for every …
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Mar 12 2026
Considering the MacBook neo
Every once in a while, Tim Cook and his minions stand on the roof of, or lurk around the grounds of, the Apple spaceship all wearing sneakers that cost more than my house, and tell us that they have “reinvented the future.” Usually, this involves moving a button three millimetres to the left or making …
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Mar 07 2026
The source matters!
The world, as we know it, is currently full of people trying to sell us things we do not want. If you are standing in a queue for a coffee, someone will try to sell you a pension. If you open your physical letterbox, you will be buried under five kilograms of glossy paper telling …
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