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03/06/2026

02/06/2026

Live from the Thermaltake Expo in Taiwan toady 😎

02/06/2026

👀 When "BUYING A NEW LAPTOP" be careful 😱

Many reputable brands are now saving money by installing the memory and storage (SSD) on the motherboard instead of these being separate components. This means that the RAM & Storage drive you get in the new unit possibly cannot be upgraded.

This means when you have a memory or storage failure, your new laptop cannot be repaired affordably, or worse the drive with all your valuable data fails resulting in exceedingly expensive data recovery!

Please be careful and ask before buying your new device, are these parts integrated & upgradeable or are the memory & storage fixed. If this question cannot be answered, walkaway & get additional advice...🤔

Let your buying power send a message to manufacturers, that cost cutting is not good enough!

01/06/2026

A Secure Boot certificate refresh is rolling out across supported Windows devices through Windows Update. In June 2026, the Secure Boot certificates that have shipped inside Windows since 2011 begin to expire, and Microsoft is replacing them with new 2023-dated certificates.

01/06/2026

Interesting 🤔

Traffic to DuckDuckGo's proudly 'No AI' search page has tripled since latest Google AI search update | News

May 30 — Privacy-focused search engine DuckDuckGo has announced that its opt-in, generative AI-limiting search page has received three times as much traffic since Google's latest round of updates and PR for AI mode search.

This latest announcement from DuckDuckGo appears to exclusively pertain to noai.duckduckgo.com, its AI opt-out search option, while its dedicated app has seen an approx. 30% increase in downloads in the same timeframe.

"Since Google revealed its plans for an AI search overhaul, visits to our 'No AI' search page have tripled," the company wrote on Bluesky. "And they’re still rising!"

It's worth noting that the No AI search doesn't stem from a principled anti-AI stance on the part of DuckDuckGo⁠—it's more a pragmatically benevolent centering of user choice. DuckDuckGo offers a corresponding AI maximalist experience on the other end of the spectrum with duck.ai.

—Ted Litchfield

26/05/2026

Microsoft baked Copilot into everything. 96.7% still won't pay.
The AI assistant arrived inside Windows 11 by default.
It lived in the taskbar, Edge, Notepad, and Outlook.
Removing it used to require scripts and registry tricks.
If you wanted Copilot gone, you now have an official button.
Just 15 million of 450 million users ever paid for it.

26/05/2026

WE FOUND "JOE'S APARTMENT"

We know we have said it before, Your senior technician will say it again and again, stop eating meals, snacks and drinking with your PC!

It does not need the sustenance we do do. As a matter of fact your PC will benefit from an annual service and clean. Instead of your glass of wine, cheese burger and fries 🍟, glass of coke, biscuit and toast crumbs.

So why not bring your PC/Laptop in now for free battery and hard drive health check.

We can also book it in for a service, clean and malware check. These services start at $110.00 fixed (not hourly like most). This includes a dust clean out for laptops and a clean and dust blow out for PC'S.

25/05/2026

This is what comes with having everything this can and will impact your $$ at some point, keep cash so you have a backup!

21/05/2026

Modern laptop battery's often fail due to poor usage, or lack of knowledge on how best to charge and discharge your laptops battery.

When modern lithium battery's start to degrade they grow a crystal 🔮 structure across the flow of current. These crystals are called dendrites.

The two images attached show crystals growing throughout just 1 cell in the battery. Unfortunately this battery has completely failed, in cannot hold any charge.

We offer a free battery check, when you bring your laptop to the shop.

Drop in any time for our friendly staff to check your battery health.