Published April 25, 2026. TL;DR: If I were spending my own money today, I would start with the MacBook Air M5 for ChatGPT, especially at $949 See current price. It is silent, the 18-hour battery is real-world good, and Atlas, voice mode, and the desktop app all feel native on it. The $599 Neo surprised me most 🙂 If you want the fast version of Mac vs Windows vs budget, the table below gets you there in about ten seconds.
TL;DR: You can use GPT-5.5 today from your terminal by running Simon Willison’s llm-openai-via-codex plugin on top of your existing ChatGPT/Codex login. No new API key, no separate API bill. 💪 OpenAI hasn’t shipped GPT-5.5 to the public API yet (as of 2026-04-24 midday), so this is a pretty sweet clean shell-side path until they do. 🚀 Thank you Simon! I set this up on my dev test box and it took about two minutes end to end. I wrote
TL;DR: To remove McAfee WebAdvisor, uninstall “WebAdvisor by McAfee” from Settings > Apps & features. You have to SCROLL to find it b/c the “Find a setting” search does not filter the app list. Click through the “we’ll miss you” retention popup and you’re done. I just use Windows Defender as it is much less obtrusive and generally very capable. I booted my Lenovo Legion 7 (16ACHG6) for the first time in a while and was greeted with this not
TL;DR: Codex sandbox errors on Ubuntu 24.04 almost always trace back to one thing on freshly installed boxes: AppArmor blocking bwrap. A five-line /etc/apparmor.d/bwrap profile fixed it on my system. If you’re hitting the same wall, paste your error into Claude Code and let it walk you through. 💪 The Symptom: Codex Sandbox Hangs on Ubuntu 24.04 My Codex setup on a fresh Ubuntu 24.04 VM was unusable. Every codex exec call burned 35K to 54K tokens over 2 or
TL;DR: If you’re chasing WD19TBS mouse lag, try the Dell Dock Firmware Update Utility before anything else. My dock was stuttering on every device I plugged in: a Dell laptop, a Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra, a MacBook, and my Lenovo Legion 7. Running the utility fixed it. The updater showed only one component actually changed: the dock’s embedded controller, 01.01.00.14 to 01.01.00.15. The mouse cursor stopped stuttering! 💪 The Issues Any device I connected to my Dell thunderbolt dock would
TL;DR: This is one real WordPress website maintenance task, run once against each model. On that task, Claude Opus 4.7 produced the stronger first-pass plan because it started from a more accurate baseline. Opus 4.6 was faster and caught one thing 4.7 missed, but it got the active theme wrong and claimed an impossible PHP version. I would not execute either plan as written. Grades below. Note: Opus 4.7 is getting a rough reception on Reddit and around the web
Opus 4.7 launched on April 16, 2026. Here’s the fast path to switch Claude Code over, including the gotcha I hit in the VS Code extension. Quick upgrade (terminal) Three commands, in order: claude update claude –version claude –model claude-opus-4-7 If that last command starts a session confirming claude-opus-4-7, you’re done. If not, keep reading. Step 1: Update Claude Code Most people run Claude Code in a terminal. One command does it: claude update Anthropic lists v2.1.111+ as the minimum
If you are getting “Rate exceeded.” when trying to re-authorize your Claude Code instance, it is probably because Anthropic’s servers are having API/login issues: Specifically, if you haven’t been heavily using Claude and you get kicked out of Claude Code with reauthorization required… for me every time it has been server issues on anthropic side and the eventually resolve. Still, that is small consolation if you are trying to finish up a project or get work done! Claude has been