Charles Brutlag / Shutterstock.com Philips Hue is the most well-known smart lighting brand. But when shoppers realize that Philips Hue costs two or three times the price of its competitors, they often walk away thinking that its products are overpriced. And that’s a shame — Philips Hue is prohibitively expensive, but its pricing makes sense….
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Microsoft Some Windows 10 or Windows 11 PCs, like Microsoft’s Surface Go 3, come with “Windows 10 in S Mode” or “Windows 11 in S Mode.” PCs in S Mode can only install applications from the Microsoft Store. But you’re free to leave S Mode, if you like. Update: We originally wrote this article for…
Can a smartphone still be cool? They were, once upon a time, in those days when they were more luxury than ubiquity. But what happens when everyone has one – and, more to the point, we all pretty much have the same one? Phones aren’t fashion. They’re not clothes or shoes or even cars. Chances…
The anonymous Q&A app NGL climbed to the top of the App Store by tricking its users with questions it claims are sent in by their friends and by charging for useless hints about who supposedly wrote those messages. But many of the questions users receive aren’t from real people; they’re generated automatically – an…
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Maxx-Studio / Shutterstock.com DisplayPort is a great option for connecting your monitor and display adapter. But although they are often reliable and stable, DisplayPort connections can sometimes fail in unexpected ways. Thankfully, most DisplayPort problems are relatively easy to avoid or fix. Here are four common DisplayPort problems, along with advice for diagnosing and solving…
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8Bitdo What to Look For in a Retro Controller in 2022 There are so many video game systems to choose from that the “perfect” controller doesn’t exist. If you want an authentic retro gaming experience, you’ll generally want to go with a controller that replicates the feel of playing retro games on the older system….
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Rating: 6/10 ? 1 – Absolute Hot Garbage 2 – Lukewarm Garbage Sort 3 – Strongly Flawed Design 4 – Some Pros, Lots Of Cons 5 – Acceptably Imperfect 6 – Good Enough to Buy On Sale 7 – Great, But Not Best-In-Class 8 – Fantastic, with Some Footnotes 9 – Shut Up And Take…
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Microsoft caused considerable consternation in the open source community over the past month, after unveiling a shake up to the way developers will be able to monetize open source software. There are many examples of open source software sold in Microsoft’s app store as full-featured commercial applications, ranging from video editing software such as Shotcut,…
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Helm is a package manager for Kubernetes workloads. Creating a Helm chart for your application simplifies reproducible deployments into a Kubernetes cluster. Users can install the whole chart with one command, instead of manually applying individual component manifests with Kubectl. In this article, we’ll show you how to get started with Helm by writing a…
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COPY –link is a new BuildKit feature which could substantially accelerate your Docker image builds. It works by copying files into independent image layers that don’t rely on the presence of their predecessors. You can add new content to images without the base image even existing on your system. This capability was added as part…
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