<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Guides on TechNest</title><link>https://technest.social/guides/</link><description>Recent content in Guides on TechNest</description><generator>Hugo</generator><language>en-US</language><atom:link href="https://technest.social/guides/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>AI agents, coding assistants &amp; workspaces</title><link>https://technest.social/guides/ai-agents-coding/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://technest.social/guides/ai-agents-coding/</guid><description>AI tooling decisions compound: the terminal agent you pick shapes your editor choice, your plan, your credit spend, and how much work moves into canvas workspaces. This cluster gathers TechNest&amp;rsquo;s checked comparisons of the current generation of agents and assistants, each with the workflow differences that actually change day-to-day results rather than feature checklists.</description></item><item><title>Desktop &amp; browser workflows</title><link>https://technest.social/guides/desktop-browser-workflows/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://technest.social/guides/desktop-browser-workflows/</guid><description>Desktop workflow questions sound small until they cost an hour: viewing two pages side by side, capturing a clip, taming window management, or moving an Ubuntu install to Wayland. This cluster collects TechNest&amp;rsquo;s checked desktop and browser guides, including the Firefox split-view pair, the screen recording comparison, PowerToys utilities, Thunderbird&amp;rsquo;s native Exchange support, and the Ubuntu 26.04 Wayland migration path.</description></item><item><title>Local AI runners &amp; the self-hosted dev stack</title><link>https://technest.social/guides/local-ai-dev-stack/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://technest.social/guides/local-ai-dev-stack/</guid><description>The self-hosted route covers the tools that keep work on your own machine: local model runners, JavaScript runtimes, API clients that store collections in Git, knowledge bases, publishing platforms, and the scanners that keep containers honest. TechNest&amp;rsquo;s comparisons here focus on what changes when nothing is uploaded and everything runs locally â€” setup effort, update behaviour, and the limits of each tool&amp;rsquo;s free tier.</description></item><item><title>Privacy, encryption &amp; account security</title><link>https://technest.social/guides/privacy-security/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://technest.social/guides/privacy-security/</guid><description>Privacy decisions rarely come one at a time: a browser choice leads to an email choice, then to how accounts are separated, how secrets are scanned, and how devices connect. This cluster lines up TechNest&amp;rsquo;s checked comparisons and setup guides along that path. Every comparison states its trade-offs explicitly, and every setup guide lists the verification steps used to confirm the settings still work as documented.</description></item><item><title>Windows 11 25H2: setup, recovery &amp; disk health</title><link>https://technest.social/guides/windows-11-25h2/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://technest.social/guides/windows-11-25h2/</guid><description>This route collects every TechNest walkthrough for Windows 11 25H2 in the order most people need them: keep the disk clean, set power behaviour, know how recovery works before you need it, control when updates arrive, and move passwordless sign-in to passkeys. Each guide was checked against Microsoft&amp;rsquo;s current documentation at publish time, and the cluster page is the fastest way to move between related steps without searching.</description></item></channel></rss>