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A Fire TV Stick looks easy to use, but there are plenty of ways you can do damage to it without realizing it. If you’re making common mistakes, then, over time, you can do a lot of damage to your Fire Stick. This is a great device that can replace a whole streaming setup, so make sure you always know how to properly use it. Related Just Bought a Fire TV Stick? Change These Settings Immediately These tiny tweaks can give your device a nice little performance boost. Using the USB port on your TV The USB is not for…

I’ll be honest: until recently, my entire coffee knowledge began and ended with whatever the barista at my local Starbucks handed me. The world of expensive coffee machines, grind sizes, and milk frothers felt like a hobby for people who already knew what they were doing, and I was not one of those people. So when I decided it was time to finally make coffee at home, I went looking for something that wouldn’t require a YouTube tutorial every morning. The Nespresso Vertuo Up kept coming up. You might know the brand from its long-running celebrity campaigns, George Clooney has…

Sitcoms are classic comfort food. They’re not prestige TV shows with complicated plots you need a manual to follow. Episodes usually stand alone, so you can start watching at pretty much any point without getting lost. You can tune in and out as you please, laughing at what’s funny and ignoring the rest. And when it comes to legacy sitcoms like Friends or The Officer, there are a ton of episodes to enjoy. And no sitcom has more episodes than The Simpsons, which has been running non-stop since 1989. Through all of its ups and downs, The Simpsons is an…

No stomach for three hours of weeping hobbits? These are the best short movies to stream today, so you can get the job done in half the time We all love an epic movie now and again, but sometimes you just don’t want to sit through two and a half hours of tedious exposition, giant robots punching each other or little people rambling through the countryside. To that end, we’ve scoured the best streaming services to assemble a collection of the best short movies that don’t mess about. All of these movies clock in at 90 minutes or less. That…

Whether you use Apple’s AirPods, Google’s Pixel Buds, the wireless earbuds from Nothing, or any other earbuds (and you don’t have to spend a lot of money to get great sound), you might have noticed a decrease in audio fidelity or volume over time (and you might want to consider setting up a proper EQ for your headphones or change your Spotify settings), and maybe your buds don’t charge as fast as they used to from the charging case. This often happens because the buds accumulate wax and grease on the speaker mesh (which affects sound quality and volume) while…

Although it’s a niche prospect on paper, gaming on a PC in your front room can be a wonderful experience. Thankfully, life doesn’t exist on a sheet of AI. Regardless of whether it’s an obscure pastime or not, I’m all in on playing the best Steam titles on my lovely leather sofa. Admittedly, that’s in large part because my PC cost more than my car, and I subsequently need to find reasons to connect it to the best display in my apartment. Still, thanks to how smooth a certain Steam display mode is, the advancements in TV tech for reducing…

Vampires never go completely out of style, but they do go through phases. For the past decade and change, the best-known vampires have been the day-walking YA warriors from Twilight, a series that inspired tonally similar shows like The Vampire Diaries. The funny bloodsuckers in FX’s What We Do In the Shadows were a satirical throwback to an older kind of vampire: the haunted members of the nobility who had been parting victims with their blood since the time of Bram Stoker’s Dracula. But in between those two phases, we got vampires as seen by Anne Rice, author of The…

Every time Apple launches a new iPhone, it’s safe to assume a few things. Lots of hype, for a start. The words revolutionary and magical are thrown around on stage. And, of course, people outside the US will complain about the price. Take the launch of the iPhone 17 Pro at $1099 – when users outside the US convert that to their local currency, things don’t exactly seem fair. The same 256GB iPhone 17 Pro, for example, costs £1099 in the UK. That ain’t cheap, especially when US users appear to be paying exactly the same amount, just with a…

I’ve been really getting into local LLMs lately, to the point where I’ve even tried running them on my phone. My AI subscriptions are only going to get more expensive over time, and if they don’t raise prices, they’ll probably just nerf the token limits instead. So I figured it was time to actually commit to local inference and build a setup that works, rather than waiting until I’m forced to, and I think I’ve got my laptop setup in place now. Related I tried running a chatbot on my old computer hardware and it actually worked You don’t need…

You’re going to die! Hopefully not soon, but you do need to figure out what to do with all your things – and that includes digital information and possessions on your phone, laptop and other devices. This guide explains how to create a digital legacy and ensure your loved ones have access to your data after you die. (But only the data you want them to have!) The basics Know what matters Not everything needs to live on after you’re gone. Decide what’s most important to you – and to those you’ll be leaving behind. Some things will be sentimental,…