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Heat, not charging, is what kills batteries
Every rechargeable device in your house runs on roughly the same chemistry, and that chemistry wears out in a predictable way. A battery holds a bit less charge each month…
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Buying smart home devices that still work in five years
The category has a bad habit. A company sells a device, runs the servers it depends on for a few years, gets acquired or loses interest, and switches them off.…
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Password habits worth changing, and the ones that never mattered
For about twenty years the standard advice was: make it complicated, change it every ninety days, and never write it down. What that produced was a season, a year, and…
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Sync is not a backup: setting up copies that survive a bad day
Most people find out what their backup situation is on the worst possible day. The laptop won't boot, or the phone goes into a canal, or a folder that held…
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Wiping a device properly before you sell, donate, or recycle it
Most households have a drawer. Two old phones, a tablet with a swollen back, a laptop that was fine except for the battery, a tangle of chargers for none of…
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