Daily Drop on Technology – August 15, 2026 | DailyDrops

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• Jellyfin does everything Plex does — except charge you for it (makeuseof.com)
• How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots (timmarinin.net)
• This HP laptop with 512GB SSD and AMD graphics is a great deal at $460 (neowin.net)
• The prediction that Linux had no future aged disastrously (makeuseof.com)
• Woman claims her stepfather used Grok to transform childhood photo into explicit imagery | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
• Windows is losing an entire generation of PC users to Linux, Apple, and Google (howtogeek.com)
• I went cordless everywhere, but these 3 power tools are still better with a cord (makeuseof.com)
• Have a laugh at AI’s expense by roleplaying as a chatbot (theverge.com)
• Microsoft is taking away one of OneNote’s best collaboration features (makeuseof.com)
• These 5 immutable Linux distros solve problems Windows users don’t even know they have (howtogeek.com)
• Before you play anything, enable these 5 hidden settings your PC shipped with disabled (makeuseof.com)
• After years of user complaints, Microsoft is finally restoring Windows 11's customization controls (makeuseof.com)
• I survived college with this note-taking app, and it’s finally available on Android (makeuseof.com)
• Anthropic shares more details about how Claude’s new watermarks will work | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
• Anthropic Explains Its Watermark System as Some Claude Users Loudly Revolt (gizmodo.com)
• These forgotten operating systems were decades ahead of their time (howtogeek.com)
• I built my own network recovery server, and now my homelab PCs have an undo button (makeuseof.com)
• Google is finally closing the door on Calendar spam — but not for everyone (makeuseof.com)
• Voyah recreated Mercedes' upside-down tunnel ad, then launched the car for $33,800 (thenextweb.com)
• A 1963 computer in plastic and rubber bands: The Digi-Comp 1 (youtube.com)
• Now Available: Open WireGuard Endpoints and Lambda Async Invocation - Proxylity Blog (proxylity.com)
• Lemonade 11.6 Integrates Muse-Glimmer 30B, Experimental TheNoise ROCm Image Generation - Phoronix (phoronix.com)
• D7VK 2.1 Brings Faster Load Times, More Performance Tweaks - Phoronix (phoronix.com)
• RISC-V: They Should Have Known Better - Dmitry.GR (dmitry.gr)
• Racket v9.3 (blog.racket-lang.org)
• The Case Against Formal Verification, 50 Years Later - Ivan Gavran (ivan-gavran.github.io)
• Pradeep Roark | Code as an "artifact". Means to an end? (pradeeproark.com)