Nav Toor (@heynavtoor)

Okay this is actually insane. @openart_ai just dropped vibe directing and the quality doesn't look like typical AI video. You just tell what you want in chat and it builds the whole thing. 5 wild examples:

There is an old laptop in your closet. Gathering dust. Dead battery. Slow processor. You keep it because you feel guilty throwing it away. That laptop can replace every cloud subscription you pay for. - Netflix - Google - Dropbox - 1Password That is $42 a month. $504 a year. To rent things you used to own. The old laptop in your closet could do all of it. Now meet CasaOS. A free and open source system that turns any old laptop, Raspberry Pi, or mini PC into your own personal cloud. You run one command. In 30 minutes, the laptop becomes a server. You open it from your phone, your TV, your work computer, anywhere in the world. Then you pick the apps you want from a built-in store. One click each. - Jellyfin to replace Netflix. Stream every movie and show you own. - Immich to replace Google Photos. Faces and search included. - Nextcloud to replace Dropbox. Sync every file across every device. - Vaultwarden to replace 1Password. All your passwords, your keys. - Syncthing to keep files in sync across every device, no cloud. - Home Assistant to control every smart device in your home. - AdGuard to block ads on every device on your wifi. Setting up a home server the old way took an entire weekend. Install Linux. Learn Docker. Write config files. Set up storage. Fix errors. Look up every app one by one. CasaOS does all of that for you. No code. No config files. No Linux skills. You see icons on a screen. You click them. 34,116 stars on GitHub. Apache 2.0. Free forever. Built by a small team starting September 2021. Runs on Raspberry Pi, Intel NUC, old laptops, and most home servers. Over 100,000 Docker apps can be installed. A new Raspberry Pi costs $50. The old laptop in your closet costs $0. It already works. It is already in your house. Netflix charges every month. CasaOS doesn't. Google charges every month. CasaOS doesn't. Dropbox charges every month. CasaOS doesn't. 1Password charges every month. CasaOS doesn't. Here is the wild part. The laptop you forgot about is more powerful than the web server that ran most websites in 2008. It is sitting in a drawer. It costs you nothing. It already works. One command. Thirty minutes. Five hundred dollars a year back in your pocket. Your files. Your photos. Your movies. Your home. Your closet just became a data center.

A developer in China named tw93 got tired of his laptop dying. He would open Slack and watch 524 megabytes of disk space disappear. He would open Discord and watch another 265. He would open Notion and watch 800 megabytes of RAM evaporate before he had typed a single word. He looked into why. Every "desktop app" on his computer was the same thing. A website wrapped in a full copy of the Chrome browser engine. The framework is called Electron. An empty Electron app starts at 150 megabytes of RAM before you click anything. With twelve of them open, his laptop was running twelve copies of the same browser. He thought there had to be a better way. So in 2022, he started building one. He called it Pake. Two characters in Chinese mean "packaging." He wrote it in Rust on top of a framework called Tauri. The idea was simple. Point Pake at any webpage. Get a desktop app. Without dragging an entire browser engine into the binary. The first version of Slack he wrapped with it was 8 megabytes. Not 524. Eight. That is what 20 times smaller looks like. Four years later, his repo has 50,594 stars. 6,144 forks. The license is MIT. The last commit was yesterday. The bio on his GitHub reads: "Anything added dilutes everything else." Today the Pake releases page contains pre-built apps for ChatGPT, Discord, Gemini, Grok, DeepSeek, Twitter, YouTube, Excalidraw, Flomo, WeChat, and twelve more. All under 10 megabytes. All native. All free. Or you point Pake at any URL you want and it builds one for you in one command. Slack's desktop app: 524 megabytes. Pake-built Slack: 8 megabytes. Discord's desktop app: 265 megabytes. Pake-built Discord: 9 megabytes. ChatGPT for Windows: 260 megabytes. Pake-built ChatGPT: 9 megabytes. tw93 is one person. He has 11,305 followers on GitHub. He runs a blog at He has shipped 39 public repos. He still pushes commits to Pake every week. He did not start a company. He did not raise money. He did not write a Medium post about how Electron is dead. He just shipped the thing that made it true. (Link in the comments)

stop asking Claude one question and thinking you understand the topic. you don't. Stanford proved a better way. it's called STORM. peer reviewed. 25% more organized output. open source. the trick: don't ask one question. ask five. from five different experts. >the practitioner: what do they know that academics miss? >the skeptic: what's the strongest counterargument? >the economist: who profits from the current narrative? >the historian: what pattern has played out before? >the academic: what does the evidence actually say? 4 prompts. 5 minutes. no software. no GitHub. just paste into Claude. single prompts give you what everyone already knows. STORM gives you what nobody else found. this article has all 4 prompts ready to copy. pick your hardest topic. paste prompt 1. you'll know more in 5 minutes than people who spent days reading.

You paid $1,000 for a Samsung phone. Samsung pre-installed dozens of apps you never asked for. Facebook. Microsoft Office. Netflix. Samsung's own browser. Samsung's own email. Samsung's own calendar. Samsung's own notes. Samsung's own cloud. Samsung's own payment app. Samsung's own voice assistant. Duplicates of apps you already use. Running in the background. Eating your battery. Using your storage. You cannot delete them. The delete button is greyed out. You paid for the hardware. They control the software. Xiaomi is worse. Pre-installed games. Shopping apps. Some serve full-screen ads on your phone. Carriers add more. T-Mobile, Verizon, AT&T each pre-install apps you will never open. Uninstall button? Greyed out. Someone built a tool that removes every single one. No root needed. It's called Universal Android Debloater. Written in Rust. Cross-platform GUI. Plug your phone in. Click. Gone. → Remove any pre-installed app. Samsung, Xiaomi, OnePlus, Oppo, Vivo, Huawei, Motorola, Nokia. → Remove carrier bloatware. T-Mobile, Verizon, AT&T, and carriers worldwide. → No root required. → Restore anything you removed. One click. → Battery life improves immediately. → Storage freed. Gigabytes recovered. → Privacy improved. Fewer apps tracking you. → Community-maintained database of known bloatware. → Works on Windows, macOS, and Linux. Here's the wildest part: The phone you paid for is not yours. It is a billboard you carry in your pocket. The manufacturer sold you hardware and then sold your attention to their partners. This tool gives you YOUR phone back. GPL-3.0. Written in Rust. Community-maintained. But DO NOT use Universal Android Debloater. We should all keep running dozens of apps we never installed on the phone we already paid for.