Notes on AI, tools, and tech.
Wi-Fi 7 sounds like a simple number bump. It is not, because the upgrade that matters lives in the 6GHz band, and phones built for mainland China ship without it. Regulators there handed that spectrum to mobile networks instead of Wi-Fi. The result is a strange split. The same model name, sold in two countries, … Read more
I almost sold my old phone for $15. That’s what the recycling site offered. Fifteen bucks. I stared at the screen and thought, “Really? This thing has a Snapdragon processor, 4GB of RAM, and a perfectly good screen. And you’re giving me lunch money?” So I didn’t sell it. Instead, I turned it into a … Read more
I’ve been running a SATA SSD in my gaming rig for years. Never thought much about it. It loads games fast enough, or so I told myself. Then I started seeing NVMe drives drop in price. Gen4 ones. The kind that promise 7,000 MB/s read speeds. My SATA drive does about 550 MB/s. That’s a … Read more
Got a bunch of these emails this morning. “Password reset request for your account.” Over and over. From my own site. I didn’t ask for any of them. Someone, or something, was poking the “lost password” button on piall.com. Annoying? Yes. Scary? Not really. At least not after I looked closer. Here’s the thing. WordPress … Read more