This $10 fix made my expensive TV's internet way faster
…its port was limiting my maximum internet speed, which only a tiny USB Ethernet adapter could fix. Related Your smart TV's unused port can make streaming significantly better Moving your TV…
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7 things I stopped paying for after getting a NAS
1w agoI stopped paying for Obsidian after discovering VS Code can handle my notes just as well with the right extensions
1w agoI stopped treating old phones like e-waste and started treating them like tiny servers
1w agoI stopped using motion sensors after my smart home learned to read my PC's state
1w agoI found out firsthand that some USB cables are too long for their own good
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Your router's most questionable setting is probably still enabled, exposing your Wi-Fi to hackers
…An MBA in Marketing and the owner of a PC building business, he writes on PC hardware, technology, and Windows. When not scouring the web for ideas, he can be found building…
We have reached the GPU ceiling, and AI tricks like DLSS are how companies pretend we haven't
…The "demand" has spiraled out of control Native graphics have stopped being a realistic target now Today, PC gaming's demand keeps on stacking. For starters, 1080p simply is no longer the…
These PC building "best practices" are costing you money and doing nothing for your rig
…PC builders. At most, $250 should be the mental ceiling you should have for an ATX motherboard. Even if you wish to have the latest connectivity features, plenty of I/O ports…
I ignored mini PCs for years, until AMD APUs made them a serious value proposition
…It has the capable Radeon 760M and brings eGPU support through the USB4 port. $519 at Amazon The pricing advantage makes mini PCs hard to ignore Especially when compared to desktop builds…
For under $100, an Xbox 360 with homebrew beats almost every modern console I own
…Related Your old Nintendo 64 games are finally getting unofficial PC ports, and they run better than emulators Retro titles are getting even better, and it's all thanks to decompilation. And…
I ran Windows 11 from an SD card, and it's faster than you'd think
…but I can’t stop using them Despite their terrible durability and slow transfer speeds, microSD cards have some neat perks It handled everyday tasks well Portable Windows works much like a…
Moving cheap IoT gear to a guest network solved more problems than I expected
Ty Sherback May 29, 2026, 8:00 AM EDT His love of PCs and their components was born out of trying to squeeze every ounce of performance out of the family computer…
Your home network probably has a hidden bottleneck, and Wi-Fi 7 won't fix it
Jasmine Mannan Apr 26, 2026, 8:00 AM EDT Jasmine is Software and PC Hardware Author at XDA with years of tech reporting experience ranging from AI chatbots right down to gaming…