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The 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…
Read the articleYou wake up, reach for the watch or the ring, and get a verdict before you have had any independent thoughts about the morning. Some days it matches how you feel. Other days it announces a poor night, and you were fine…
Read the articleFurniture rarely dies from one dramatic event. It dies from ten years of small neglect: a chair that has wobbled since 2019, a table by a south-facing window, dry air every winter, a glass that sat somewhere overnight. Each of those is…
Read the articleMost rooms are lit by one fixture screwed to the middle of the ceiling, because that is what the builder wired and nobody has changed it since. It works, in the sense that you can find your keys. It also lights everything…
Read the articleWalking has one enormous advantage over every other kind of exercise: it requires no decisions. No kit to pack, no class to book, no changing room, no skill to acquire, nothing to be bad at in front of strangers. You put shoes…
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