In my last post, I wrote about an incorrect way to disable CPU boost. I did more research on the subject of quiet PC and found that 99% is kind of outdated. The more modern version is specifically CPU disable boost instead of capping the “Maximum processor state.” To do it, you need to run this command as an administrator:

powercfg -attributes SUB_PROCESSOR PERFBOOSTMODE -ATTRIB_HIDE

After that, you will see the “Processor performance boost mode” in  the “Advanced Options.” This will allow you to disable it completely, boost efficiency, boost aggressively, etc.

I created several batch files. This one for silent mode:

@echo off
powercfg /setactive "c04704c0-22bb-4636-a096-c5c82cd268c0"
powercfg /setacvalueindex SCHEME_CURRENT SUB_PROCESSOR PERFBOOSTMODE 0
powercfg /setactive SCHEME_CURRENT
echo Silent plan is on

Quite some time ago, several times I was playing with Microsoft Azure. Once, for myself, once we built the prototype project that required cloud infrastructure.  I was able to create a lot of complex things quite easily. Everything was nice, quite intuitive, and I had to use pretty much only common sense and very light internet searching.

But a week ago, I was trying to setup a Azure subscription to pay for GitHub metered usage for testing. But the experience was absolutely horrible. I don’t know if it is related to Microsoft’s statement that AI is doing 30% of their work, but my whole experience feels like I was working with something that barely reached alpha quality.

It started very

A bit of history

Around 8 years ago, I upgraded my computer. That time, I went for a budget build, and buying 16 Gb of memory was quite adequate and very reasonable. But around the end of 2024, 16 Gb became a huge pain.

I typically use 2 browsers: one for serious stuff like banking, and the second one for entertainment. Both browsers had many tabs open, and together they consumed a crazy amount of memory. Many times I’ve seen 8 Gb or more memory usage just for 2 browsers combined. Add Windows, any tasks I started, and you will probably understand that my computer was constantly swapping memory back and forth.

And after that story, I left

Several months ago, my main printer died. Well, not really died, it started printing badly, and cleaning the printer heads didn’t help. I’m sure I could find a solution, for example, I can replace ink cartridges, but I already have a second printer, which was quite faster and quieter, so I decided to let it rest in peace. I already wrote about this printer here and here.

Now it is time to do the final calculations. I bought this printer in 2014 for around $130, and it lasted me 11.5 years. I used the original set that came with the printer, and later I bought a single set of the original ink. After that, I strictly use only

Unless you live somewhere in the woods and have no access to the internet, you have seen many videos or heard people saying that AI will soon replace software developers. Is there any truth in this?

But before I answer this question, let me explain why many people are convinced that it will happen. But to explain this, I need to explain how traditional software development works to understand what has changed.

Let’s take a website as an example. Typically, work starts with a working prototype. Any interactive website requires a frontend and backend. Frontend requires design. Unless the website is very trivial, it requires 3 different skills and typically 3 different teams.

Firstly, the design team approves a draft

There have been many talks recently about AI replacing humans. Just put 1 – 2 trillion dollars more into it, and it will surpass any human. But is this really the case? For example, imagine that you don’t know anything about water. You asked AI the following question: “What can you do with water?” And AI may answer that you can put it on fire with matches.

And because you don’t know anything about water, you assume it is true and act on this information. Then, later, to find out that it is completely wrong. Moreover, very often, if you think before acting on information provided by AI, you can find a contradiction in AI’s answer.

As a result, there

In a strange twist of fate, our company got Crowdstrike on all our computers. I will not explain why due to privacy reasons, but we got it. And oh boy, there is a lot to talk about. Let’s begin.

The first thing everyone notices immediately is that our computers are slower. I have my home computer that was on the low-end side when I built it new in 2018. And I have a top-of-the-line computer at work that is a couple of years younger. Many tasks my home computer does faster. Like opening Task Manager or the Open dialog in any application. You just feel that the computer has become slower.

One may say that it is pure psychology. “You

Some time ago, I wrote an article about Apple’s Face ID and how it is extremely unreliable and frustrating. I also mentioned that the software quality of Apple products has reduced considerably over time. But I absolutely didn’t expect what happened after that.

I installed iOS 26 on my phone, and it is the first time that I absolutely do not like the design from Apple. Apple always had very high standards, and I love every iOS design starting from iPhone 4. Apple was pretty much the reference on how to do it right. Until now.

It is just awful. Initially, it looked to me like Windows 3.1. A lot of borders around each button. A lot of new