I recently bought a Xiaomi Pad 6 (8-core CPU, 8 GB RAM, 256 GB storage) to use as an ultra-lightweight “laptop” – at just 490 g. Here are my observations on what works, what doesn’t, and a few tips for anyone looking to replicate this experiment.

Many people see the recently approved Chat Control 1.0 as a win for privacy because it excludes end-to-end encrypted (E2EE) messaging services from the mandatory content scanning, however I don’t believe this is the full story.

Angular simplifies the development and testing of single-page applications by providing a component-based architecture, two-way data binding, and dependency injection. This article aims to be a beginners guide to Angular. It doesn’t talk about Signals and related concepts, it goes over the classic change detection and the framework basics that still apply today.

A simple comparison chart between the different ESP32 boards available today.

PlatformIO being open-source doesn’t really mean anything. The problem isn’t the license – it’s the dependency. Even though the core code is open, nearly everyone depends on PlatformIO’s cloud-hosted registry, platform definitions, telemetry-connected VSCode extension, and online updating system. So the fact remains: the Arduino ecosystem has already normalized cloud-based infrastructure for compiling and deploying simple microcontroller code.