There is an interesting part of the used server market that I think more homelab builders should pay attention to. Most of you probably already know that companies regularly get rid of perfectly usable enterprise hardware once it reaches the end of its supported life. The problem is that when people talk about buying retired enterprise equipment, they usually think
File Explorer handles most copy jobs, but it stumbles when transfers get large, long, or interrupted. Microsoft has shipped a command-line alternative for roughly three decades, though, and believe it or not, it's already on your PC. Here's what Robocopy is, where it beats the graphical approach, and who should bother learning it.
If you've ever tried to get a remote desktop working on a Windows Home machine, you've discovered that it isn't especially easy. You have two unappealing options: you can pay for a Windows Pro license just for RDP or you can accept the privacy and security risks of third-party remote access accounts.
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react-native-ui-lib wins on the compare page when the product is a phone and the missing pieces are specific. otf-kit wins on that same page when the product also has a web app, a theme picker, or a kit with auth and payments. The coverage checklist below is the live page at the compare page, read on 28 September 2026. Kit prices that the compare page does not spell out come from pricing the same day.The page calls the library RNUI, and sometimes Wix RNUI. It describes it as one of the longest-r
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Linux Mint has a reputation for being the friendly face of Linux and the perfect first step. The one people point to when they say switching from Windows is easier than you'd think. I believed that for a while. I installed it on my Lenovo IdeaPad Y70, got comfortable, and figured I'd finally made the jump for good. What followed was about a year of regretting that c
<p>I didn’t expect to get this attached to Android Auto, but here we are.</p><img src='https://static0.howtogeekimages.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/wm/2026/09/gemini-confirming-the-message-to-send.jpeg' />
I’m a senior ML/Dev with top accounts on freelance platforms. I cannot land a gig because automated platforms have flooded clients’ attention, despite being able to for years. Clients complain as well that they cannot find a workforce because of the AI slop shield. Imagine, you post a job on Upwork and bots get you on LinkedIn in a few minutes. What do you guys do? How do you search for gigs now?
Every B2B software company hits the same operational roadblock: lead context bankruptcy.A prospect fills out a simple two-field demo form with [email protected] or [email protected]. Your sales reps or founders then spend 10 to 15 minutes checking LinkedIn, reading the company's landing page, trying to guess their tech stack, and looking up headcount before writing a personalized follow-up.At scale, this manual triage devours 10+ engineering and sales hours weekly. In this technical breakdown, we'll
One of the agents I look after keeps its state in MongoDB, and a few weeks back it started doing the thing I dislike most: nothing. No stack trace, no failed HTTP call to point at. The run just sat there while the UI kept spinning.There was an error, all right. It wasn't in the app, it was in the database.A Mastra user hit the same wall in issue #21412. Long DurableAgent runs, MongoDB storage, workflow-snapshots collection. Their snapshot document grew past MongoDB's per-document size limit, the
Counting words and characters is a common feature in writing tools, form fields, blog editors, and social media applications.JavaScript makes it possible to build a simple text counter without installing any external libraries. In this tutorial, we'll create a word and character counter that updates as the user types.We'll also look at how spaces, line breaks, and emoji affect the results. 1. Create the HTMLStart with a textarea where users can enter their text. Below it, add three elements
Let’s be brutally honest with ourselves for a second.As software developers, our greatest superpower isn't writing algorithms or fixing memory leaks. Our true superpower is spending 6 continuous hours engineering the most complex, over-engineered productivity setup in human history—just to avoid writing 10 lines of actual code. The Modern Developer "Productivity" StackHere was my daily workflow last month:Note-Taking App: Running on Electron. Consumes 2.4 GB of RAM to display raw text with
On an average workday I spend about 10 hours at my computer and that's before you count the many hours I spend on my PC doing things that I enjoy. When you sit behind a keyboard that much, you realize how many simple things you do require too many clicks. Sure, they might only take a couple of seconds in the moment, but at the end of the day all that time adds up.
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Buying things online is the best way to save money, but it can be hard to know if you’re buying the right size or measuring properly. Getting this wrong means dealing with returns, which is inconvenient and best avoided. Luckily, these 3D prints can help boost your chances of success the first time around.
Difficulty settings in video games aren't always perfect, and many games still struggle to provide options that aren't too easy or too difficult. While some games like Elden Ring and Monster Hunter Rise forgo this choice altogether, there's a better approach to difficulty settings that too many developers are ignoring.
For most PC gamers, the first instinct when building or upgrading a gaming PC is to look at the latest and most popular GPUs. But with graphics card prices shooting up, you’re unlikely to get great value for your money when buying new, especially from NVIDIA.
It’s been a couple of years since I turned my back on the organic light-emitting diodes and quantum dots of modern TVs in favor of my beloved ultra-short-throw projector. Its bright and clear image beamed onto a big 100-inch ALR screen has turned my living room into a movie theater that rivals some of my city’s repertory cinemas, and it’s the best home theater exper
