The Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 3i is a budget friendly laptop that should handle basic computing …
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DREO’s New Whole Room Heater 720, Air Purifier 530S, and other winter ready products.
Dreo, the global smart home brand, has introduced its latest winter lineup featuring three innovative products designed to enhance indoor comfort during colder months: a flagship whole-room heater with adaptive technology; an air purifier for cleaner breathing environments across seasons. Together they deliver flexible solutions that combine warmth preservation by DREO’s expertise in thermal management and clean-air innovation. Dreo Whole-Room Heater 720 With AutoShift™ Technology Specifications: Power: Up to ~1500W Hyperamics PTC Ceramic Heating Element …
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Googlebooks are basically expensive Android laptops. A bunch were just released.
This week Google announced a new type of laptop computer called the Googlebook. They look a lot like Chromebooks, but really they’re a lot more like Android laptops. They’re basically designed to work well with an Android phone with consistent design and interface elements, plus a lot of added Google Gemini artificial intelligence integrations. All of them also have a rainbow flag lightbar on the back lid as a Google branding kind of indicator. Here …
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The New Olight Arc series flashlights are beautifully sturdy and multi-purpose
The other day I got to see the new Arc Pro and Arc Tak series tactical flashlights from Olight. Olight has established a reputation for excellence in the tactical flashlight market, and the Arc Pro series stands as a testament to that legacy. The original Arc Pro is a compact powerhouse, renowned for its pocket-friendly design and magnetic tail cap that allows for hands-free operation. It combines high-intensity output with a rechargeable battery, making it …
Continue readingLenovo IdeaPad Slim 3i Review: beautiful blue & budget friendly
The Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 3i is a budget friendly laptop that should handle basic computing needs just fine. There aren’t any serious stand out special features, other than the very nice navy blue color finish. Everything else is certainly satisfactory for basic work that takes place in a web browser or email program. Microsoft Office works very well on the IdeaPad Slim 3i as well. It can run higher end programs like Adobe Creative Cloud, …
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The HP ZBook Ultra G3a 16 is going to be awesome for local AI workflows
HP Inc. has unveiled the HP ZBook Ultra G3a 16, a new mobile workstation designed to serve as a “personal AI factory” for professionals. Co-engineered with AMD and enhanced by Perplexity, this thin-and-light 16-inch device is built to bridge the gap between AI experimentation and production. By combining workstation-class performance with local AI capabilities, HP aims to help professionals apply agentic AI to their most demanding workloads without the friction of fragmented tools or cloud …
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Upgrading my Mastodon server was rough, but AI helped a lot.
I made my own social media network federated via ActivityPub on the Fediverse running Mastodon 4.1 a few years ago. I did it with a script that installed everything on an Oracle Cloud VPS. I did not use the Docker method because I thought that might be extra RAM that could be used elsewhere. Then I became lazy about learning how to upgrade Mastodon on an installation built from source. Reading the release notes and …
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