…For me, redirecting port 53 was enough to stop all my pesky smart home devices from heading out the front door without being adequately vetted. Now, my LAN is more private, secure…
…placing their PCs far from routers, onboard Wi-Fi absolutely makes sense, but for my own desktop habits, Ethernet remains the connection I trust most. Too many USB ports I only use…
…serious and companies stopped doing fun stuff with their devices. Well, if you want to go back to that time, someone has ported the original Xbox dashboard to PC. Not recreated. Not…
Rich Edmonds Apr 25, 2026, 8:00 AM EDT Richard is the PC Hardware Lead at XDA and has been covering the technology industry for almost two decades. He's been building…
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