Windows is undeniably convenient, but Linux puts you in charge
Ty Sherback Mar 20, 2026, 5:30 PM EDT His love of PCs and their components was born out of trying to squeeze every ounce of performance out of the family computer…
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N100 mini PCs quietly killed the Raspberry Pi for home servers
…Of course, a Raspberry Pi 5 could serve as a decent HASS unit, but you’re bound to run into performance issues as your arsenal of smart home devices scales up. Likewise…
I disabled frame generation in three AAA titles, and it proved some games are better off without it
…While there's no decisive benchmark data linking the anti-piracy layer to poor performance, it is obvious that the additional layer does indeed introduce additional CPU overhead. As with any other…
I used Claude to create a campaign and my D&D sessions have never run smoother
…While contemplating this issue the other day, I thought to myself: what if I had Claude AI create an RPG campaign for me? The problem: not having time to create an immersive…
I replaced Adobe, Figma, and Canva with one free tool, and I'm not paying for design software again
…It was developed by brothers Thomas and John Knoll, with Thomas originally building it as a side project to display grayscale images on a monochrome monitor. Not quite — Photoshop 1.0 launched…
Premium TVs ship with bargain-bin networking speeds, and it's getting harder to ignore
…I’m doing it because I want stable performance, fewer wireless dropouts, and one less device crowding my Wi-Fi network. A slow Ethernet port doesn’t make the TV unusable, but…
I turned my Raspberry Pi into a portable NAS that runs off a power bank, and now I carry terabytes everywhere
…And as unhinged as it may sound, this setup worked surprisingly well, even if the lack of a 5V 5A power adapter throttles my Raspberry Pi’s performance. One shower thought led…
The smart home upgrade nobody wants to do is labeling every cable and device
Ty Sherback May 17, 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…
My Fire TV Stick is infinitely better ever since I enabled this hidden setting
…Related My Fire TV Stick stopped feeling sluggish after I changed this setting It's something you should do periodically for the best performance The default experience is insufficient for power users…
A single mini PC replaced my Raspberry Pi cluster and nearly cut my power use in half
…What finally pushed me over the edge wasn’t performance alone. It was the combination of power bricks, microSD anxiety, case clutter, cable sprawl, and the constant need to remember which Pi…