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Cross­Point Read­er is open source e‑reader soft­ware designed for ESP32 micro­con­trollers. It enables users to read dig­i­tal con­tent on ESP32-based devices with a light­weight, cus­tomiz­able read­ing plat­form built on open source prin­ci­ples.

Forum dis­cus­sion explor­ing why local­ly-run large lan­guage mod­els often per­form worse than their offi­cial ver­sions, exam­in­ing tech­ni­cal fac­tors like hard­ware dif­fer­ences, quan­ti­za­tion, infer­ence imple­men­ta­tion, and bench­mark method­ol­o­gy that impact real-world mod­el per­for­mance.

The Verge reviews the OhSnap Snap Grip Stand, a $50 mag­net­ic phone grip and stand that final­ly con­vinced Senior Edi­tor Sean Hol­lis­ter to make the pur­chase after months of test­ing. The acces­so­ry is praised for its thin 3.7mm design, dual-sided mag­net­ic ring, ver­sa­tile grip func­tion­al­i­ty, and inno­v­a­tive fold-out stand mech­a­nism that deploys faster than com­pet­ing prod­ucts.

REVDAN­CATT is a col­lec­tion of pen plot­ter tools and gen­er­a­tive art sketch­es, includ­ing cal­i­bra­tion util­i­ties, land­scape gen­er­a­tors, and geo­met­ric pat­tern cre­ators like spi­rals, cir­cles, and snowflakes. The site is cur­rent­ly under recon­struc­tion with arti­cles planned for future addi­tion.

macUSB is a free, guid­ed macOS app for cre­at­ing bootable USB media on Apple Sil­i­con and Intel Macs. It sup­ports macOS installers (includ­ing lega­cy ver­sions), Lin­ux, and Win­dows images, with built-in macOS down­loader, check­sum ver­i­fi­ca­tion, and auto­mat­ic media prepa­ra­tion fea­tures.

The Verge reports on view­ers using rogue stream­ing box­es for ille­gal TV access due to high costs. It details this grow­ing infor­mal econ­o­my.

Doc­u­men­ta­tion on the Kin­dle and Mes­qui­to

Hi. My name is Cabel. And I’ve prob­a­bly got the neat­est job in the whole world. I wear many hats. But here on my per­son­al blog, I get to write about the things I real­ly care about, just for you. And from the fact that you’re read­ing this blog aLt all, I think you may…

Send­Cut­Send is an online CNC and laser cut­ting ser­vice, spe­cial­iz­ing in alu­minum, steel, brass, plas­tics, tita­ni­um, and more. Fast turn­around and free ship­ping!

The most com­fort­able Blue­tooth® sleep mask in exis­tence Razor-thin Blue­tooth® head­phones Per­fo­rat­ed mate­ri­als for air­flow

Home­Pod for all your devices.

The ZimaBoard is a small hack­able x86 serv­er, but is its ver­sa­til­i­ty a strength or a weak­ness, com­pared to many pur­pose built alter­na­tives?

ZimaBoard is the world’s first hack­able sin­gle-board serv­er. It is a hybrid of a micro serv­er and SBC (sin­gle board com­put­er) designed for build­ing a low-cost NAS, media serv­er, and soft­ware router as your home automa­tion and enter­tain­ment cen­ter. I ordered one on Oct 11, 2022 based on Secu­ri­ty Now 892 where Steve Gib­son men­tioned that this is how he works on Spin Rite and that it is the per­fect small board to run Spin Rite on.