Windows finally fixed File Explorer's most annoying quirk, and it only took 20 years
… It's the small, foundational quirks that really define the everyday experience of using Windows, after all. …
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A used Lenovo ThinkCentre is still the best $100 you can spend on a home lab
… Community knowledge about quirks is well-trodden enough that almost any problem you'll hit has probably been solved publicly. …
I went back to IPS after years on OLED, and it exposed OLED's biggest flaws
… Besides the obvious drawbacks like IPS glow and worse black levels, what surprised me was how quickly I started noticing the things OLED had trained me to tolerate over the years. Related 4 things no one tells you about owning an OLED monitor OLED monitors come with their own set of quirks. …
I built my own Googlebook with a Raspberry Pi, local LLMs, and old hardware
… I’ll probably sound insane when I say this, but I’ve had better performance while running emulators and watching videos on this random distribution than the actual Raspberry Pi OS. …
Stop upgrading your CPU for media server transcoding; a used GPU does it better
… Gaming performance relies on CUDA cores and shaders, whereas video encoding and decoding rely on video engines, such as NVENC for Nvidia or VCE for AMD. Gaming performance of a GPU degrades with time, as modern games require more raw power, whereas video codecs evolve much slower. …
My 360Hz monitor exposed the real bottleneck in my PC
… But OLED's unmatched motion clarity is actually a double-edged sword because it also makes any inconsistencies in performance easier to notice. …
Nvidia promised ray tracing would change gaming forever, but upscaling became the real revolution
… That said, many gamers are now using high refresh rate OLED monitors , so the performance target is also higher than it used to be. …
Your favorite retro games look wrong on modern screens, and only RetroArch's shader presets fix that
… It'll already get you 80% of the way there without tanking performance. …
After years of PC gaming, I realized my PS5 still gets one thing right
… The only decision I usually need to make is whether I want the game to feel smoother at 60 FPS with the performance mode or prioritize visual detail at 30 FPS with the quality mode. You'd think that, as a PC gamer, I would choose the performance mode every single time, but that's not the case. …
The AI boom crushed PC building, but it's the best thing that happened to home labs
Ty Sherback Jun 3, 2026, 7:00 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. …