Computers have improved drastically year over year. With these changes, we've also lost some things along the way. Many of them are just legacy connectors and features that we honestly don't have much use for in mainstream PCs in 2026, like bulky parallel ports or floppy disk drives.

I'm a PC builder with so much love for humongous desktops, but even my love gets tested at times. I recently tried a really high-quality GEEKOM mini PC, which made me re-evaluate the whole concept of owning those things, and how they can pretty much replace an actual desktop on many fronts.

Following the release of the OLED iPad Mini yesterday, Apple has now announced updated MacBook Pro and iMac models. The brand’s all-in-one desktop is arriving almost two years after the M4 model that debuted back in 2024. In between, the M5 generation never made it to the iMac, so the latest jump is bigger than the version number suggests.

I did not start this because I wanted a screenshot for /r/unixporn. I wanted to stop moving windows around manually. That was basically the entire plan. Four days later I have Hyprland, Waybar, Rofi, custom battery logic, a terminal file manager, several small helper scripts, a reproducible installer and documentation explaining

Because apparently I needed an app for changing app icons.

I have a growing collection of small tools that were originally created only for myself. Usually something annoys me just enough that I start thinking about automating it, and these days AI makes it dangerously easy to turn such thoughts into actual applications. A few years ago