Your PC is probably choking because one fan is fighting the rest
…can turn your PC into a bit of a vacuum cleaner and can pull dust through unshielded gaps and ports. Some people want to have a completely balanced PC by maintaining neutral…
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The USB-C port on your phone supports much more than controllers, and these are the best uses for it
3d agoYour fastest USB port might not be your best, and I found that out the hard way
4d agoI turned my Raspberry Pi into a portable NAS that runs off a power bank, and now I carry terabytes everywhere
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Synology felt like an appliance until I built a custom NAS with TrueNAS and realized what I was missing
…All I needed was a mini PC or compact desktop with a CPU and enough RAM to run the OS. Drives were easily connected inside a chassis with a few SATA ports…
My Raspberry Pi 4 still has a job in my homelab, and it isn't Home Assistant
…If my mini PC goes down, I can still access my network monitoring stack, especially when away from home. The entire setup took 15 minutes without port forwarding, changing firewall rules, or…
I built a perfectly segmented home network, then spent six months poking holes back through it
…Related Setting up OPNsense on a mini PC was easier than configuring my old router Consistent performance with predictable behavior What my segmented home network setup looked like Reliable isolating everything... on…
I moved my Zigbee coordinator off a Raspberry Pi after a year and everything got better
…The Zigbee coordinator was always available since I plugged it directly into the USB port, without an extension cable. Compiling and flashing ESPHome firmware on ESP32 boards is fast and more consistent…
Valve's Steam Deck didn't just succeed, it quietly changed how PC games are made
…It felt like, as a result, the Steam Deck killed the on-optimized PC port era by making it financially impossible for a developer to ignore a platform that now rivals the…
Your cheap USB-C cables will fail with USB4
…Your phone, power outlets, gaming handhelds, desktop PCs, power banks, docks, monitors, chargers, and more. All these devices connect using the same USB-C port and cable. The issue is that most…
I self-host my PC game library with Moonlight instead of paying for a second PC or GeForce Now
…my own PlayStation Portal for under $180, combining creativity and passion to stream PS5 games in full HD from the comfort of my bed. Buying a second PC wasn't an option…
I turned my dusty Chromecast into a $250 smart home hub replacement
…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…