A Routine Task That Should’ve Just Worked Last week, I went to post a simple Craigslist ad and needed to take a few product photos. So I grabbed my Pixel phone running GrapheneOS, snapped three quick shots, and walked over to…
When I travel, my digital security strategy is simple but deliberate: I prepare a laptop with a fresh operating system and nothing else. The reason is straightforward—if that device is stolen or damaged during a trip, I only lose the hardware.…
I’ve been using computers for over 30 years. My first was an Atari, which I used for audio production before offloading the task to professional workstations like the Roland W30 and later the Kurzweil K2000S. This freed up my computer…
A few weeks ago, I stood at a familiar creative crossroads—the kind where logic wrestles with longing. I was eyeing high-end gaming PCs, contemplating about RTX 5080 or 4090-powered render pipelines and speculative benchmarks. But in the end, I pressed…