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The best supernatural show on TV is on a platform you probably forgot you subscribed to

Dan Selcke — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 23:00:19 GMT

What is the nature of evil? What is the true function of religion? Can demonic entities floss? These are some of the questions explored over the course of four seasons in Evil, which started out on CBS before jumping over to Paramount+.

I was done with OnePlus until OxygenOS 16 gave me 5 reasons to stay

Rob LeFebvre — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 22:00:19 GMT

I've had my OnePlus Open since it launched in 2023, and I'll be honest: I don't use it as often as I thought I would. The company's next iteration, the Open 2, was put on pause, leaving the original feeling like a one-off. And the software, while capable, hasn't given me much reason to stick around. Then Oxygen OS 16 dropped and I just installed it. A few things in it changed the way I use the phone, now, so I might stick around a bit longer. Here's what kept me interested.

I run my own Netflix — it's free, it has no ads, and my whole family uses it

Shimul Sood — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 21:00:19 GMT

I've never understood why streaming services keep asking us to pay more while offering less. Between rising subscription prices, ads creeping into paid plans, and restrictions on account sharing, the experience feels much more complicated than it used to. I considered canceling my subscriptions altogether, but I wasn't ready to give up the convenience of on-demand entertainment.

I finally ditched Evernote for Joplin, and my only regret is not doing it sooner

Sagar Naresh — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 20:00:18 GMT

Evernote was my go-to note-taking app for years, both on my smartphone and on my desktop. It has been the gold standard of note-taking for millions across the globe. I used to toss everything into it: article drafts, random ideas, pitches, grocery lists, and web clippings. It just worked. But over time, the app got bloated; the interface became heavier, and the upgrade prompts just became relentless.

I made 5 Pixel 10 Pro changes and my battery life improved noticeably by the next morning

Shimul Sood — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 19:30:18 GMT

I've been using my Google Pixel 10 Pro for quite a while now, and like any longtime smartphone user, I know battery health isn'tperfect forever. The more you use a phone, the more its battery naturally wears down. What surprised me, though, is that my Pixel started giving me battery anxiety much sooner than I expected. The phone hasn't even been around for a full year, yet I often watch the battery percentage far more closely than I'd like.

I've paid for Claude, Gemini, and ChatGPT for months — this is the one I recommend

Robin John — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 19:00:19 GMT

I spend a lot of my day moving between AI tools, and for the past several months, I've been paying for the premium tiers of Claude, Gemini, and ChatGPT all at once. It sounds excessive when I write it out, and it probably is, but my work involves enough drafting, research, and repetitive busywork that I wanted to give each one a fair shot at earning a permanent place in my routine. I figured I'd settle into a clean split eventually: one tool for writing, another for quick lookups, and so on.

I asked this self-hosted tool what it knew about me, and I wish I hadn’t

Gregory Gibson — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 18:30:19 GMT

Like everyone, I got curious about what the public internet already knows about me. So I wanted to see what personal information I had left behind online, but I didn’t want to use one of the sketchy people-search sites that hoard our public information without asking permission.

My Windows 11 install felt slower than Windows 10 until I changed a handful of settings I'd ignored

Digvijay Kumar — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 18:01:19 GMT

Your PC isn't old, and your hardware hasn't changed, so why does Windows 11 feel slower than Windows 10? I figured that's just how the new OS ran until I went through a few settings I'd never bothered to open. Turns out they were eating into performance by default, and changing them restored the speed I had before the upgrade.

My Obsidian notes are now a live website — one free plugin set it up in under an hour

Tashreef Shareef — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 17:30:19 GMT

I've been using Obsidian for the last two years, and it's been an amazing note-taking app so far. Apart from writing articles for various publications, I also use Obsidian to write for my personal blog. So, it only makes sense that I try to publish directly from my vault instead of doing it the conventional way, which is what Obsidian Publish offers, at $8 a month, which honestly feels a bit steep, especially for someone with a decade of experience hosting websites.

5 under-$50 travel gadgets I never fly without

Christine Persaud — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 17:01:29 GMT

I often fly for work and occasionally for pleasure. In the past few years, I have traveled to the U.S. from Canada numerous times, and to Europe and Asia, logging thousands of miles in the air. There are technologies that make long trips comfortable and safe, and certain tech items I never fly without. These include a portable power bank to use both on the plane (for airlines that allow them) and on the go at my destination, as well as noise-canceling headphones to quiet the hum of the airplane engine so I can listen to tunes, watch a movie, or catch a few hours of sleep on longer flights.