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I tried a real tiling window manager on Windows and Snap has felt broken ever since

I tried a real tiling window manager on Windows and Snap has felt broken ever since

Published by skeptic

I used to think Windows Snap had solved most of my window-management problems. I mean, it was tidy enough, fast enough, and a clear improvement over dragging windows around. Then I tried Komorebi, a proper tiling window manager for Windows, and I began to look at Snap as unfinished. Not useless, to be clear. Snap Layouts are still one of the better everyday features in modern Windows. The problem is that they still expect me to manage the mess. Komorebi changes the premise. Instead of treating every new window like a small interior design project, it drops apps into structured layouts, moves them across workspaces, and lets me steer the whole desktop from the keyboard. After a few days, the old drag-resize-squint-repeat routine was primitive. Related I tested four Linux tiling window managers and one of them clearly won me over Battle for the greatest and perhaps most situational. Windows Snap is a party trick, not a system Snap is useful, but it still makes me do the work To be fair to Microsoft, Snap …

‘I felt I could smash my past up through sex’: the ruthlessness and redemption of Rupert Everett | Rupert Everett

‘I felt I could smash my past up through sex’: the ruthlessness and redemption of Rupert Everett | Rupert Everett

Published by Sam Flores

Rupert Everett is struggling with the heatwave. It reminds him of the summer of 1976, when he was 17, basking in the sun, serene as a sloth, his future spread out ahead of him. It’s so different now. “When you were young, hot weather was nice. But when you’re chubby like me now, it’s not so nice,” he says. “You’re not chubby,” says his publicist, with reassuring brio. “I am chubby,” insists Everett, in his breathy, blue-blooded drawl. Well, none of us are as thin as we once were, I intercede, and you were probably too skinny back then. Everett gives me a magnificent how-very-dare-you look. “No, I wasn’t. I was wonderful-looking at one point. I had muscles. Everything.” He’s talking about his golden era in the movies, when he was big box office. “It was quite short-lived. I call it my Hollywood year.” He chuckles. Everett’s got a wonderful chuckle. A barely audible hum. A tiny rise in inflection here, a little stress there, and you realise he’s amused. Occasionally, he just hoots with …

My browser felt slow until I realized my ISP’s DNS was the bottleneck all along

My browser felt slow until I realized my ISP’s DNS was the bottleneck all along

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Thanks to the rise of web-first apps, most of my work these days happens inside a browser. Writing articles, researching topics, managing projects, and even communicating with colleagues, there’s a good chance I’m doing it through a web app rather than a traditional desktop app. And because of that, I’m always looking for ways to improve my browsing experience. One of the changes I made recently was switching away from my ISP’s DNS. And it turned out to be the most important tweak because it made browsing faster, private, secure, and a lot more enjoyable. Related This DNS tool made all my devices feel more private instantly I stopped managing privacy settings on every device I use. My ISP’s DNS was holding back an otherwise fast connection Speed tests looked fine, browsing didn’t Pankil Shah / MakeUseOfCredit: Pankil Shah / MakeUseOf DNS usually isn’t the first thing that comes to mind whenever there’s a problem with the internet. Most of us instinctively blame either the browser or the ISP itself. But the truth is, DNS matters …

My Tesla Y Does What Felt Like Sci-Fi 10 Years Ago

My Tesla Y Does What Felt Like Sci-Fi 10 Years Ago

Published by Jenni Sidey

Tesla supervised self-driving electric vehicles have just surpassed the 10 billion mile mark. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration knighted the ​2026 Tesla Model Y as the first vehicle model to ‌pass the agency’s new advanced driver-assistance system tests.   Model Y/Tesla I understand the theory behind AI-driven vehicles, but experiencing one of them firsthand is something else entirely. My son Jeremiah test-drove a Tesla Y, urged me to do the same, and I ended up buying one for less than he paid for his new truck. In my view, it is the most impressively engineered consumer product since the smartphone. I say this as a practicing electrical and computer engineering professor with decades of experience in algorithms and artificial intelligence. Among others, I’ve showed off my Tesla to a control theory professor, a retired Marine fighter pilot, and a retired police officer. All were agog. Here is a list of features that, together, I find jaw-droppingly impressive: Voice ControlI can tell my Tesla where I want to go by voice or by typing.  The …

Zendaya Says Spider-Man 4 With Tom Holland Felt Like a Dream

Zendaya Says Spider-Man 4 With Tom Holland Felt Like a Dream

Published by Daniella Wilson

Zendaya reflected on working with her partner Tom Holland in two upcoming projects releasing this year in a new profile, where she said that returning for the latest Spider-Man film felt like “coming home.” The Euphoria star and English actor met when they began working on Spider-Man: Homecoming, the first movie from the film franchise with Holland as its lead. With his fourth Spidey entry set to release this summer, the couple are also both starring in Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey. Zendaya clarified in her profile with Elle that she does not have any scenes with Holland in The Odyssey, which allowed her to watch him act on set. “I could have cried, I was so proud,” she said. The Emmy Award winner also gushed about their time collaborating on Spider-Man: Brand New Day, calling it a “dream.” “And then Spider-Man was a dream; I get to go to work every day with my best friend, the person that I love,” she said of Holland. “We bring our dogs to work; it’s like a family affair. We grew …

After three days here I felt like an Olympic athlete: the Montenegro hotel designed for fitness and wellbeing | Montenegro holidays

After three days here I felt like an Olympic athlete: the Montenegro hotel designed for fitness and wellbeing | Montenegro holidays

Published by Sam Flores

I was lying on a bed with no trousers on. A young man helped me into some crotch-high boots and zipped them up. He turned the lights down low, put on some music, pressed a button and left the room. Argh! The boots started to slowly inflate from the toes up, like a giant blood-pressure cuff. As they clenched around my upper thighs, I started to panic. What if they just got tighter and tighter until my legs exploded? As I was about to shout for help, the pressure suddenly released, leaving my legs feeling deliciously light. I took a deep breath and submitted to another 19 minutes of this sweet torture. I was at Siro Boka Place in Montenegro, having compression boot therapy, which is supposed to boost circulation and reduce swelling. “It’s especially effective on women over 35,” my youthful assistant had told me, helpfully. The hotel, which opened last year, is proud of its “state-of-the-art wellness facilities”. In most hotels that means a poky gym. At Siro the facilities are so good …

I Started Making Tiny Crafts To Cope With Stress. After A Few Weeks, I Felt More Focused And Pain-Free Than I Had In Years.

I Started Making Tiny Crafts To Cope With Stress. After A Few Weeks, I Felt More Focused And Pain-Free Than I Had In Years.

Published by Jenni Sidey

Two summers ago, my living room was invaded by tiny furniture. Sofas and chairs crowded the mantel; desks and cabinets paraded across the bookshelves and windowsills. By the end of August, I had made enough furniture to fill a village’s worth of small houses. I didn’t realize it at the time, but I had just started to heal myself after a life-altering traumatic brain injury (TBI) and accompanying PTSD. It turns out that in the midst of both Covid and the opioid crisis, with anxiety at an all-time high and medicine hard to come by, not to mention social isolation, getting creative with crafts is the best thing you can do for body and brain: In 2025, Better Homes and Gardens even announced that mini crafts were the hobby of the season.  I started making tiny crafts to cope with stress Photo from Author A surprising discovery about tiny crafts For me, it all began when my neighbor’s dog attacked and knocked me to the ground. My head hit a concrete step, and that was …

I tried not speaking for 24 hours. Here’s what I felt and what experts say

I tried not speaking for 24 hours. Here’s what I felt and what experts say

Published by Daniella Wilson

Get the Well Enough newsletter with Harry Bullmore for tips on living a healthier, happier and longer life Get the Well Enough email with Harry Bullmore Get the Well Enough email with Harry Bullmore We’re losing words. More than 300 a day in spoken word, or 120,000 a year, according to recent research. Tech is the main reason — we’re texting over phone calls, using the self-check out lane, and ordering sugar off Instacart rather than asking a neighbor for a cup. In an effort to understand the implications of this decades-long loss of words, I decided to stop talking for a day. I am a yapper. Women speak an average of 10,000+ daily words, but between my chats with neighbors, check in with friends, and daily calls with my mother, I suspect my average is even higher. Sudden silence was going to be a struggle. Would friends and strangers think I was rude? Would they not talk to me again? Unlike a monastic vow of silence, I was able to text, email, Slack, use …

‘I felt lighter than a cloud’: Why readers say Gen X women are walking away from marriages

‘I felt lighter than a cloud’: Why readers say Gen X women are walking away from marriages

Published by Daniella Wilson

Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more As more women in midlife choose to leave long-term marriages, Independent readers have been sharing deeply personal reflections on why so many relationships are reaching breaking point – and whether marriage itself still works for modern life. Many readers said the “walkaway wife” phenomenon reflects years of unequal emotional and domestic labour, particularly among Gen X women who were expected to build careers while still carrying most responsibilities at home. Others described slowly losing their sense of identity inside long marriages, only realising later in life that they no longer wanted to keep sacrificing themselves to keep relationships afloat. Several women spoke about feeling “lighter” and more fulfilled after leaving unhappy marriages, even when the separation brought financial uncertainty or loneliness. Menopause, empty nests …

Anok Yai Says She Felt “Extremely Nervous” to Wear a Prosthetic Wig as Balenciaga’s Black Madonna

Anok Yai Says She Felt “Extremely Nervous” to Wear a Prosthetic Wig as Balenciaga’s Black Madonna

Published by Sam Flores

“This is the first Met where I’ve done something crazy that I don’t think anyone will do,” supermodel Anok Yai told Vanity Fair as she was getting ready for the Met Gala 2026. “No one’s going to show up in another prosthetic wig, right?” Although Bad Bunny and Heidi Klum both used prosthetics for their Met Gala looks, it was the first Monday in May regular Yai, prepping for her “lucky number seven” Met Gala, who donned the evening’s only silicone-based hair. The unorthodox updo included a nod to the Greek mythological character Medusa, complete with a knotted snake adorned on the back of Yai’s head. Inspired by Renaissance paintings, Balenciaga creative director Pierpaolo Piccioli reimagined Yai as the Black Madonna, a figure seen throughout religious art. “I’m always nervous,” the Sudanese American model says. “But this time, I’m, like, extremely nervous.” The custom Balenciaga couture, complete with black ruched detailing, an oversized hood, and black leather gloves, required 15 people working around the clock for a week to make. “The train is about five …