AI News & Guides
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Custom GPTs or Claude Skills: Which Should a Small Business Build First?
Custom GPTs vs Claude Skills for a small business: build a GPT when the assistant is for other people, a Skill for your own repeatable work. Here’s the plain-English decision guide.
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The AI PC Label, Decoded: What an NPU Actually Does for You
What is an NPU, and is an AI PC worth paying for? A plain-English decoder for the Copilot+ PC label, 2026 laptop chips, and when the AI sticker actually matters.
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AI Note-Taking That Sticks: How to Set Up Obsidian With a Local AI
Set up Obsidian with Ollama and two free plugins for private, offline AI note-taking — semantic search and chat with your notes, no subscription, no cloud.
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How to Have Grok Bot Monitor the Internet for Things You Care About (Step-by-Step)
Hire a Watchlist Clerk. Daily digest of what changed on topics and URLs you named. Drafts only. You decide what to open.
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Omarchy for Podcasters: A Free Studio With a Room for Everything
PipeWire audio routing, REAPER or Audacity one install away, a preinstalled Zoom web app for guests, and a workspace map that keeps the record button, script, and guest one keystroke apart.
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Omarchy for Streamers: Yes, OBS Screen Capture Works on Wayland
Omarchy ships OBS with the PipeWire capture chain pre-wired, plus Steam, Proton, and Moonlight for an instant dual-PC setup. How to stream from DHH’s Linux desktop, caveats included.
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Local AI on Omarchy: A Private Chatbot on the Leanest Desktop You Own
Omarchy’s lean Arch base leaves your RAM for the model. How to set up Ollama on Omarchy in one command, give your private AI its own workspace, and wire it into the capture keys.
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Is Prompt Engineering Dead? What to Do Instead in 2026
Is prompt engineering dead in 2026? The magic-words era is over. Here’s the task brief that replaced it: context, one example, constraints, definition of done.
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What Is Grok? xAI’s Chatbot, Explained for Normal People
What is Grok? A plain-English guide to xAI’s chatbot: real-time X data, Grok Imagine video, voice mode, what SuperGrok costs, and the honest caveats.
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