Daily Drop on Technology – August 16, 2026 | DailyDrops

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• I turned off YouTube's worst features and my feed actually became useful again (makeuseof.com)
• I reclaimed 11 GB on my Windows PC without deleting a single file (makeuseof.com)
• This 200Hz Acer Nitro monitor is dirt-cheap in $109 deal (neowin.net)
• Mozilla is rolling out a native ad blocker for Firefox on iOS (neowin.net)
• Linux finally follows Windows and makes a CPU feature requirement mandatory (neowin.net)
• OpenAI reportedly disbanded its preparedness team (theverge.com)
• Dario Amodei admits AI companies have not delivered on their promises (thenextweb.com)
• Samsung's Tizen and LG's webOS both claim the best smart TV — a third one beats both (makeuseof.com)
• Stripe will reportedly acquire AI gateway startup OpenRouter for $7B+ | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
• Why people aren't buying Mark Zuckerberg’s AI future | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
• Virtual desktops, docks, and tabbed windows—Linux had them first (howtogeek.com)
• Breach at Crypto Wallet Company Called 'SafePal' Exposes 39,798 Customers (gizmodo.com)
• I gave up on Phone Link years ago — trying it again in 2026 shocked me (makeuseof.com)
• The 32-year-old Windows placeholder that Microsoft says is now a permanent feature (howtogeek.com)
• These free apps have the Windows features Microsoft forgot to build (makeuseof.com)
• 8GB of RAM on Windows 11 works — but only if you're willing to cripple your PC (makeuseof.com)
• I used Claude to build Anki flashcards—and it's the future of learning (howtogeek.com)
• Cat5e is much faster than most people give it credit for (makeuseof.com)
• Top 6 AI Certifications That Can Make You Rich in 2026 (youtube.com)
• I get 300 notifications a day on Android—here's my system for taming them (howtogeek.com)
• I changed one Google setting, and my Android finally held a charge (makeuseof.com)
• I reclaimed 18GB with Windows' built-in compression, and the benchmarks surprised me (makeuseof.com)
• Vintage Artificial Intelligence: Before It Got Awkward | Internet Archive Blogs (blog.archive.org)
• Why your local LLM feels dumber than it is (forum.level1techs.com)
• Flight Test Engineer at Voltair | Y Combinator (ycombinator.com)
• GitHub - schapman1974/briskdb: Ordinary SQLite files, one sharded database—parallel writes, PostgreSQL, HTTP, Rust, Python, and shard-safe IDs. (github.com)
• GitHub - wmww/tawc: Tess's Android Wayland Compositor (github.com)
• Engineers will do anything to avoid learning from history — David Horn (horn.gg)
• Tracking down a Zsh history data loss bug 🐞 (michael.stapelberg.ch)