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A quick review of some of the most memorable mobile phones, starting from the Nokia 3310. | Recently, while clearing out some stuff from storage, I found a stash of old mobile phones. Stuff that I had used once upon a ...
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An exceptional Android tablet for work and play. | The Google Pixel Tablet is coming next month, and Samsung’s 2023 flagship Galaxy Tab S9 is expected in a couple of months. But if you’re looking for an ...
Technology
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There's a better way to keep VSCode's and WSL'2 SSH in sync now. | How does one get the SSH used by VSCode’s Remote-SSH plugin to use the same configuration and keys as that in WSL2? This was a problem I solved ...
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Saving an old Android tablet with a community-driven Android project. | I recently gained a renewed interest in tablets, and although I have a new Samsung Galaxy Tab S6 Lite, I still wanted to take out my old Nexus 7 ...
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QUIC is actually quicker than HTTP/2. | I like data. So when I said in my last post about QUIC and HTTP/3 that I didn’t have statistical data for comparison, I realised that I really need to get that sorted out. ...
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Is this remake any good in 2023? | Sometimes, a product is so good, the company that makes it launches a renewed version with exactly the same name. This is what Samsung has done with their Galaxy Tab S6 Lite. It ...
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Is QUIC quick enough? We'll find out. | Today, as you access my website, there are two under-the-hood changes. The first is a move from Apache to Nginx software, and the other, is the new support for QUIC and HTTP/3. ...
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The Pixel 7 Pro now represents the best of Android. | It’s taken Google quite a few years. Even more, if we counted from the era of Nexus smartphones. But better late than never. This year, Google launched the ...
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Easy way to make smart your regular light fixture. | One of the easiest ways to get smart lighting at home is to replace existing light bulbs with smart light bulbs. This is what WiZ does with their LED Light Bulbs. I ...
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I love 2-in-1 convertible laptops. They are versatile and adapt to different working styles. PC users have quite a few good choices. Here’s one more, Dell’s latest Latitude 7430 2-in-1, which is targeted at business ...
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Run a QNAP NAS and other services behind a reverse proxy. | This post is about setting up an Nginx reverse proxy to provide public Internet access to a QNAP NAS inside a private home network. This can easily be ...
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This NAS easily fills up a 2.5 GbE connection. | I reported some filesystem speed test on the QNAP TS-464 with IronWolf disks recently. Those were done with a 1 Gbps network connection, and I promised an update using ...
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This turns wired IEMs into an awesome true wireless earphones. | One of the things I’ve been wanting to do for a very long time was to turn my favourite pair of custom in-ear monitors (CIEM) into a pair of true ...
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Never buy from them again. | I rarely like to single out a company to complain about them. But there’s this one that has angered me tremendously, and particularly because they appear to enjoy a rather positive ...
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I am kind of resigned to accepting poor service. | I wrote this a week ago. It rained. My shoes and socks were wet. I was annoyed. I had a frustrating experience with someone’s customer service that day. And the ...
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The bits that go into a desk setup. | Happy new year 2023! Many people seem to share about their desk setups, so I thought I’d also do that for this first post of 2023. It’s going to be a little bit more ...
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Just about everything that most people want. | Alongside the great Pixel 7 smartphones, Google also launched their Pixel Buds Pro earbuds this year. This would be their fourth time at making earphones, and this time, ...
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Jeju Driving 101 for Singaporeans | For free-and-easy travellers to Jeju, there are two options to get around: use public transport or get a rental car. I was originally considering the former, but fortunately, ...
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Nothing is back with new earbuds. | Nothing is back with a new thing. It’s a new earphone, the Nothing Ear (stick). You might think it’s an update to last year’s Nothing Ear (1). That’s not ...
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Keeping watch on credit card fraud. | So it came to be, after so many years, that a credit card fraud happened to me. The card fraud itself is not much of a story to tell. But there are other things about it that are ...
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Good value, basic with decent sound quality. | I just got yet another True Wireless Earbuds come by recently for review. This is Huawei’s latest, the FreeBuds SE, which aims to deliver premium sound quality ...
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Passengers should be paid for false arrival claims and cancelled rides. | Commuters have aired a lot of grouses with Grab Car after the latter announced a change in their pickup grace period policy. Passengers who are ...