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The sane way to keep your system up to date If you’re running Windows 11 and still manually updating every app one by one, you’re doing it the hard way. Microsoft quietly solved a big part of this problem with winget, the Windows Package Manager. It’s built into modern Windows, it’s fast, and once you get used to it, you’ll wonder why you ever trusted a dozen auto-updaters running in the background. I use winget regularly, especially on dev machines and clean installs. It is not perfect, but it is absolutely worth using. Let’s break down what it is, how to use it, and the real pros and cons. What is winget? Winget is Microsoft’s official command-line package manager for Windows. Think of it like apt on Linux or brew on macOS, but for Windows apps. (...)

What actually happened to Crucial On December 3, 2025, Micron announced that it is exiting the consumer memory business and winding down its Crucial brand, the label most of us know from RAM sticks and SSDs in gaming rigs and everyday PCs. Shipments of Crucial consumer products will continue only until the end of Micron’s fiscal Q2, which is around February 2026. After that, no new Crucial RAM or SSDs for regular consumers. Crucial is not some tiny side project, either. It has been around for almost 30 years and is widely known for affordable, reliable memory and storage. Micron is the third largest RAM supplier in the world, so when they pull a brand like Crucial out of the consumer space, that is a big deal. (...)

Very interesting podcast with Jensen Huang the Founder and President of Nvidia. The second half on how the Nvidia company made it and the early life of Jensen is amazing.

Very interesting video on The Shawn Ryan Podcast about drones with Adam Bry ( Skydio ).

Alright, so here is something I did not expect to wake up to. HughesNet, the satellite internet provider that so many rural folks depend on, is now getting ready to refer its own customers to Starlink. Not joking. This is actually happening. I dug through Reuters, AP News, The Verge, and a few other sources. Here is the simple version, explained like someone who is just passing along what they found and not pretending to be a journalist. EchoStar, the parent company of HughesNet, sold a massive amount of spectrum to SpaceX They agreed to sell billions of dollars worth of wireless spectrum. Reuters reports that the main deal is worth up to 17 billion dollars, and AP News and The Verge backed that up. Then EchoStar turned around and sold even more spectrum to SpaceX shortly after. (...)

Skype used to mean online calling. It was quick, simple, and didn’t need a corporate badge to use it. Then Microsoft decided it knew better and slowly replaced it with Teams — a product that feels like someone tried to turn a meeting into a lifestyle. Officially, Skype was “retired” in 2025. Unofficially, it was suffocated by the company that bought it. Let’s be honest about what actually happened here. 1. Skype Worked Too Well for Regular People Skype did what people needed: you clicked a name, you called, you talked. No onboarding checklist, no “channel permissions,” no “collaboration hub.” When Microsoft bought it, they saw something too normal for their new productivity empire. Skype didn’t fit into the big Microsoft 365 bundle, it didn’t sell enterprise plans, and it didn’t come with a dashboard full of analytics. (...)