Your old Android phone is a better thin client than most mini PCs
…very intentional direction. Google Pixel 10 Pro Brand Google Display 1280 x 2856 pixel resolution LTPO OLED at (495 PPI) RAM 16GB Storage 128GB Battery 4,870 mAh Ports USB-C The…
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I built a retro gaming library on my NAS, and RomM makes it feel like Plex for games
…Ocarina of Time remake — I already made my own Ship of Harkinian powers a native PC port of the N64 classic. Browser play makes the whole setup seamless The feature I underestimated…
Your TV's contrast problem isn't the panel, it's the wall behind it
…A lot of them are powered via USB, meaning you can plug the light strip directly into the TV's USB port. The lights will also turn on and off automatically with…
SteamOS finally went Super Saiyan with the Steam Deck, but other handhelds proved that wasn't its final form
…Out of the 5% Linux gamers, 1/4th are on SteamOS, and a large portion of them run it on the category-defining Steam Deck. Valve's iconic PC gaming handheld was…
When AAA game developers block entire GPU brands, PC gaming loses its biggest advantage
…Rather than following the usual optimization path, they chose a different approach that left a small, but significant portion of PC gamers locked out of an AAA experience — at least until the…
I stopped blaming my gaming handheld's battery and started tuning it with this free plugin instead
…Some even got slightly less portable. These drawbacks, for some, make the battery life gains seem underwhelming, but when I got introduced to SimpleDeckyTDP, it started to feel less like a hardware…
Your home network probably has a hidden bottleneck, and Wi-Fi 7 won't fix it
…ways including interviewing the CEO of Razer, AMD's Director of Product Marketing and the VP of Lenovo. Passionate about gaming and PC technology, she has built countless computers, keyboards and other…
Your Ethernet wall ports might already work, but your builder wired them for phones
…I'm no fearmonger, but worst of all, lazy builders love stapling cables directly to the wooden studs behind the drywall sometimes, undoing your cable joint inside the wall and creating a…
I replaced five smart home hubs with a $30 Zigbee dongle and never looked back
…ways including interviewing the CEO of Razer, AMD's Director of Product Marketing and the VP of Lenovo. Passionate about gaming and PC technology, she has built countless computers, keyboards and other…
I turned my old laptop into a retro gaming station with Batocera, and it's better (and worse) than I expected
…Batocera, like most retro-gaming solutions, relies on Emulation Station (ES-DE) as its main interface, but unlike on a Windows PC or another distro, it boots directly into it every time…