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Most people find out what their backup situation is on the worst possible day. The laptop won't boot, or the phone goes into a canal, or a folder that held twelve years of photographs turns out to have been emptied some time…
Read the articleA computer rarely gets slower in the literal sense. The processor is doing exactly what it did on the first day. What changes is everything around it: more software running unasked, a drive with no room to work in, a cooling system…
Read the articleFor about twenty years the standard advice was: make it complicated, change it every ninety days, and never write it down. What that produced was a season, a year, and a punctuation mark on the end, incremented every quarter, written on a…
Read the articleThe universal connector was supposed to end the drawer of incompatible cables. Instead it produced a drawer of identical cables with wildly different abilities, none of which is visible from the outside. One charges a laptop and carries a monitor signal. Another…
Read the articleThe category has a bad habit. A company sells a device, runs the servers it depends on for a few years, gets acquired or loses interest, and switches them off. The hardware on your wall is fine. The service that made it…
Read the articleNearly every house has one. The back bedroom where video calls freeze. The kitchen where a podcast stutters if you stand near the fridge. The usual response is to buy something — an extender, a mesh kit, a router with more antennas…
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