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8 pagesMy First EV Road Trip
I’m an old hand with databases and have been driving for 12 years. Yet until this trip, I’d never driven an EV. It wasn’t some diehard devotion to internal combustion. I simply had no need for a car to commute. When I worked in an office, I usually …
I’m an old hand with databases and have been driving for 12 years. Yet until this trip, I’d never driven an EV. It wasn’t some diehard devotion to internal combustion. I simply had no need for a car to commute. When I worked in an office, I usually …
A Tiny Aluminum Cube: Hands-on with the Beelink ME Pro NAS
Last night, before bed, I threw together a post about the three gadgets middle-aged men obsess over: NAS boxes, routers, and chargers. It picked up more than 30,000 reads in a day. Apparently, the stereotype has some truth to it. I mentioned that I …
Last night, before bed, I threw together a post about the three gadgets middle-aged men obsess over: NAS boxes, routers, and chargers. It picked up more than 30,000 reads in a day. Apparently, the stereotype has some truth to it. I mentioned that I …
Three Midlife Obsessions: NAS, Routers, and Chargers
The joke goes that a middle-aged man has three hobbies: NAS boxes, routers, and chargers. I stayed home for all seven days of China’s National Day holiday. I had no desire to fight the crowds, so I put my head down and worked. That week wasn’t all …
The joke goes that a middle-aged man has three hobbies: NAS boxes, routers, and chargers. I stayed home for all seven days of China’s National Day holiday. I had no desire to fight the crowds, so I put my head down and worked. That week wasn’t all …
Local AI: A Question of Power, Not Price
Anthropic’s threat report, OpenAI’s soap opera, the closure of the $200 subscription tier, and rising GPU and memory prices—all of this week’s events tell the same story. Three things happened this week. Taken separately, each looks like industry …
Anthropic’s threat report, OpenAI’s soap opera, the closure of the $200 subscription tier, and rising GPU and memory prices—all of this week’s events tell the same story. Three things happened this week. Taken separately, each looks like industry …
Local AI's Inflection Point: 2027
When subsidies fade, hardware catches up, and open models mature, all three lines cross in 2027. “Build your own AI” goes from idea to reality. A Thought Triggered by a Group Chat A friend in a group chat said the other day that “self-hosting” is …
When subsidies fade, hardware catches up, and open models mature, all three lines cross in 2027. “Build your own AI” goes from idea to reality. A Thought Triggered by a Group Chat A friend in a group chat said the other day that “self-hosting” is …
Meituan Deleted Users' Photos: Overbroad Permissions Are Worse Than a Privacy Leak
Starting on March 18, 2026, a large number of Android users discovered that Meituan had wiped files from their galleries. Photos, videos, audio recordings, PDFs, Word documents: sometimes hundreds of files, sometimes thousands. Android’s own …
Starting on March 18, 2026, a large number of Android users discovered that Meituan had wiped files from their galleries. Photos, videos, audio recordings, PDFs, Word documents: sometimes hundreds of files, sometimes thousands. Android’s own …
Fully Loaded M5 Max: What Does a RMB 58,200 Laptop Look Like?
Apple unveiled the M5 Max MacBook Pro, and I ordered a fully loaded configuration almost immediately: RMB 58,200. 1. A ten-year spending pattern Since graduating, my primary machine has always been the same category: a top-tier MacBook Pro, usually …
Apple unveiled the M5 Max MacBook Pro, and I ordered a fully loaded configuration almost immediately: RMB 58,200. 1. A ten-year spending pattern Since graduating, my primary machine has always been the same category: a top-tier MacBook Pro, usually …
Reclaim Hardware Bonus from the Cloud
Hardware is interesting again, with the AI wave fueling a GPU frenzy. However, the intrigue isn’t limited to GPUs —— developments in CPUs and SSDs remain largely unnoticed by the majority of devs. A whole generation of developers is obscured by cloud …
Hardware is interesting again, with the AI wave fueling a GPU frenzy. However, the intrigue isn’t limited to GPUs —— developments in CPUs and SSDs remain largely unnoticed by the majority of devs. A whole generation of developers is obscured by cloud …