Linux doesn't need the terminal anymore, and that's actually great
…Sure, not all apps have a Flatpak, Snap, or an AppImage you can download, but a lot of my daily drivers do. When it comes to managing these apps, I much prefer…
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This GPU driver setting cut my frametime variance in half, and competitive FPS games feel completely different now
…What frame interpolation actually does Smooth Motion isn't DLSS Frame Generation Nvidia Smooth Motion is a driver-level frame interpolation feature built into the Nvidia App, and unlike DLSS Frame Generation…
I bought the RX 9070 XT for FSR 4, but the games I actually play don't support it
…Nvidia, by contrast, has enabled DLSS 4 and the newer 4.5 transformer model to reach over 400 games, and the Nvidia App's DLSS Override does roughly what AMD's driver…
3 useful sideloaded Android Auto apps I use almost every day
…Google updated the minimum requirements over the years, and Marshmallow became the baseline that stuck for the phone-based version of the app. Not quite. Android Auto requires Android 6.0 Marshmallow…
Restarting isn’t enough — you should always shut your PC down
…Even if you close an app, buggy drivers or background services can hold on to RAM addresses, which cause memory leaks. Fast startup can reload these exact errors back into RAM upon…
The Android Auto feature nobody talks about that I use on every drive
…Google updated the minimum requirements over the years, and Marshmallow became the baseline that stuck for the phone-based version of the app. Not quite. Android Auto requires Android 6.0 Marshmallow…
This ESP32 Macintosh Plus emulator can pull weather from Home Assistant
…Wi‑Fi, Home Assistant weather via MQTT, and IPC-updated apps. You can make one yourself: the code, 3D printed shell schematic, and instructions are on GitHub. What's cooler than emulating…
Linux has quietly become more forward-thinking than Windows, and these 6 features prove it
…The OS, the drivers, libraries, and applications, all update together cleanly with nary a hiccup. On the other hand, Windows does feel fragmented, comparatively. While some apps update through the Microsoft Store…
I ran three home server apps on the Orange Pi Zero 3W to see where it would break, but it hasn't
…node to bind to the upstream PowerVR driver cleanly, this board goes from "no GPU" to "Vulkan 1.2 compatible" in a single kernel update. The Cedar video engine is in a…
SteamOS couldn’t revive my old GPU, so I went with this non-Bazzite distro instead
…I tried installing the old drivers for my GTX 1080, but those broke the system even further – to the point where I had to use generic drivers at 800x600 resolution just to…