7 programs I stick to on my PC despite other alternatives
…Gigabyte SIV, or System Information Viewer, is one of the first-party tools for Gigabyte motherboards. When I first encountered it after setting up my PC, I found it does the job…
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SteamOS finally went Super Saiyan with the Steam Deck, but other handhelds proved that wasn't its final form
…The Lenovo Legion Go S in 2025 became the first third-party handheld to officially support SteamOS, finally expanding Valve's ecosystem beyond the Steam Deck. SteamOS was a lean, intuitive, and…
I replaced Cloudflare Tunnel with Pangolin, and finally own my whole ingress path
…Sign in to your XDA account Whether a new home lab enthusiast or an experienced homelabber, Cloudflare is often their first choice for building their infrastructure. Not because Cloudflare is free, but…
Please stop putting heatsinks on NVMe drives that never throttle
…The first wave of 14GB/s Gen 5 drives gave the industry PTSD because they would literally shut down without active cooling. However, for most users, particularly those using a standard Gen…
I ditched half my Obsidian plugins and my vault actually got better
…writing I spent my first three weeks in Obsidian without actually writing a single meaningful note. I was working with dozens of third-party plugins and endless CSS snippets to customize every…
Give your water a spring cleaning with a Waterdrop Filter system
…of performance and simplicity. $133 at Amazon The Waterdrop Filter TSU system features a three-stage filtration process with a 0.01-micron ultrafiltration membrane designed to capture extremely small particles. This…
I ran Windows 11 from an SD card, and it's faster than you'd think
…Since then, anyone who wants to run a portable Windows installation has to rely on a third-party tool like Rufus. That's something I already had. Now it was time to…
Linux gaming is almost there, but 3 missing pieces keep me booting into Windows
…Then, there's the issue of worse-than-Windows performance in a handful of demanding AAA titles. They might be few and far between, but the result is the same: I need…
Windows is learning Linux's best tricks, while Linux is learning Windows' best tricks
Ty Sherback May 11, 2026, 2:30 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…
Modern Standby is draining your Windows 11 laptop battery, and Microsoft won't fix it
…Until relatively recently, the concept of power efficient cores and performance cores wasn't really present in the x86 space, so whenever a background task had to be performed, it would fire…