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Any good tech sites without the fluff? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by nixchick@lemmy.ml to c/technology@lemmy.world
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I am looking for some good tech sites that have longer articles and indepth reviews. Preferably without an obvious biased towards a particular company or brand. edit: I should have clarified what to was looking for. I would like to compile a list of lesser-known but useful websites so that I can stay current on tech news without having to deal with the "fluff" that some of these sites now contain or the never-ending stream of anything remotely technological that you'd receive at the Verge, Ars Technica, etc.

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[–] lustrum@sh.itjust.works 77 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Here's some that I follow:

  • Anandtech^1: Great general tech website, has some deep dives. It did used to be a lot better
  • Chips and Cheese^2: Insane deep dives into architectures and chips.
  • More than Moore^3: Ex Anandtech editor in chief, does great breakdowns of new AI tech and silicon.
  • igor's Lab^4: Does some great deep dives into various GPU and CPU issues.
  • KGOnTech^5: Only just followed this blog, seems to do a good teardown on the apple headset.
  • Krebs on Security^6: Blog by one of the best security researchers and breaks down vulnerabilities
  • EE Times^7: Good well written site with overviews on many areas in tech
  • Techspot Featured Articles^8: Mainly gaming and GPU/CPU, but does some good articles exploring games, tech etc
[–] expatriado@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

i am a EE major and i didn't know about EETimes :O

[–] nixchick@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks, there are a few I haven't heard of.

[–] lustrum@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Here's another good idea if you don't follow RSS feeds, I use these at work to aggregate some sites together:

[–] gruf@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

I'd loved Anandtech in the past, for how they used to be. hadn't heard of those other numbers 2,3,4 before, thanks for posting them!

[–] SleepyWheel@sh.itjust.works 44 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Ars Technica

[–] SkepticalButOpenMinded@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ars Technica has to be some of the most reputable high quality reporting in tech. I got hooked way back when they’d publish twenty plus page reviews covering operating systems.

[–] buran@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I think they still do that. They’ll probably have in-depth reviews of iOS 17 (and its watch and iPad counterparts) on Monday or Tuesday and Sonoma coverage a week after that, so we’ll know for sure soon.

[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I love Ars. Eric Berger’s space coverage is fantastic

[–] PeachMan@lemmy.one 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Notebookcheck is pretty dry but their reviews are more thorough and technical than most.

[–] mustardman@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 1 year ago

Notebookcheck

The name makes it sound like blogspam, but the first time I went on there I was incredibly blown away by how through they were. It was for a laptop and went to the level of determining variance in brightness across the screen and stuff like that.

[–] ominouslemon@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

LOVE Notebookcheck. It's probably my most trusted source when buying / recommending laptops and components

[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Notebookcheck and Phoronix (though mostly Linux news)

[–] nixchick@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Love Linux hence my name.

[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You expect people to read usernames on here as well as the post??? 🙄🙄 GEEEEEEEZ 😂

[–] nixchick@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Too much? LOL!!

[–] fubo@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

https://lwn.net/ for Linux-related articles.

[–] sorrybookbroke@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hey, thanks man, added them the my rss feed

[–] Uranium3006@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm putting together an RSS feed reader myself. What are some good sites on yours?

[–] sorrybookbroke@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

No clue if it's your kind of thing, but I've been liking okimj.org, this week in neovim, and coding horror. I'll admit I'm kinda new at this entire rss thing too lol. Here's all I've gotten so far:

[–] Audalin@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Many such articles are reposted on HackerNews occasionally: https://news.ycombinator.com/

[–] ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’d stay off HackerNews. It’s got a lot of headassery.

[–] Audalin@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Probably. Still, it might be useful for blog discovery. One doesn't have to read the comments.

[–] orangebussycat@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They commenters are the best reason to use HN. There are few forums with so many well connected users.

[–] Audalin@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Sure, they're just typically from the same industry with similar perspectives, similar blind spots and similar affinity for rants on topics X, Y and Z. Some get annoyed by this after a while so ignoring comments is a valid choice if you feel like that.

[–] kSPvhmTOlwvMd7Y7E@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

lol comments are the best part. That's top one for best comments out in the whole internet

[–] Stormcrow@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year ago

Check out r/NewMaxx by u/NewMaxx on Reddit. That subreddit is focused on SSD news and a great source for it, but the articles linked on the sub are generally good sites for tech news in general.

[–] theluddite@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If i may be so bold, I and a few others write about tech at https://theluddite.org/.

I focus on the intersection between technology and human decisions. A lot of tech coverage has a techno-optimist, or tech-as-progress default perspective, where tech is almost this inexorable, inevitable, and apolitical force of nature. I strongly disagree with this perspective, which I think is convenient for the powers that be because it obscures that, right now, a few rich humans are making all our tech decisions.

I also write code for a living, which shockingly few tech writers and commentators have ever done. That makes it possible for me to write stuff like this.

[–] Vqhm@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

The Register has broken some good stories.

Also an excuse to read Simon Travaglia's BOFH https://www.theregister.com/offbeat/bofh/

[–] Fontasia@feddit.nl 1 points 1 year ago

techmeme.com is a great aggregator