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We're used to modern NVMe SSD transfer speeds, which have touched 15,000 MB/s with PCIe 5.0 drives. They eclipse anything that came before — SATA SSDs and hard drives alike. Even if you don't have a high-end Gen5 SSD on your system, your Gen4 SSD is running pretty fast right now. … [Read more...]

With AAA titles taking up more than 100GB of storage space these days, even a 2TB SSD won't cut it unless you're okay with uninstalling and reinstalling games as you need them. For years, I never really had more than four or five games installed on my PC at any given time, so storage space wasn't something I was worried about. That changed after I installed three AAA games that took up about 150GB … [Read more...]

Getting your data organised in Excel is one thing; making it look presentable is another. Fortunately, Microsoft has been adding some interesting new Copilot-powered features to the spreadsheet software that will make creating interactive canvases representing your data a lot easier. Best of all, it'll keep tabs on everything you change and automatically update the canvas as you work. ➪ Continue … [Read more...]

Over nearly 21 years of using Windows, and over 4 years of using Windows 11 as my daily driver, I've developed numerous habits on the OS, and a lot of my workflow relies on some valuable tools that Microsoft gives away for free. … [Read more...]

Obsidian gets most of its praise from being local-first, offline, and future-proof with its plain-text nature. When you sit and think for a minute about what the vault actually is, a regular folder with markdown, then Obsidian suddenly becomes more than just a notes app and starts behaving more like a hub that other tools can plug straight into. … [Read more...]

Ever since the PlayStation 5 came out, it has never had two things — a web browser and a Jellyfin client on the PlayStation Store. For as long as I've owned mine, I've settled with having to switch over to my TV's browser to access my Jellyfin library. … [Read more...]

My sister recently started making homemade chocolate chip cookies from her kitchen, and she wanted to turn that small idea into an actual business. The product was simple — one signature chocolate chip cookie. I thought the branding would be a fun test for AI. Instead of helping her myself, I decided to see what three popular AI chatbots would come up with. … [Read more...]

When you set up a new NAS system, you might notice it constantly humming and drawing a lot of wattage, so you switch it to standby mode after 15 to 30 minutes of inactivity. This might feel like an energy-conscious decision, and you might notice your room get quieter, temperatures falling, and your annual electric bill dropping by up to $40. … [Read more...]

AMD's proprietary 3D V-cache is perhaps one of the most important CPU innovations of recent times, and anyone who has been remotely interested in processors knows that already. It's one of AMD's biggest tangible advantages in gaming over competitors right now, and it has been for a while, especially with Team Red steadily refining the formula with every generation. … [Read more...]

Most homelab guides hand you a 20+ container checklist to start with. The initial setup is usually the easy part; configuring and maintaining it is the real task that comes later. And most beginners get frustrated and drop the whole idea. … [Read more...]

One half of making a laptop is giving it the most powerful portable hardware on the market; the other half is squeezing all of that into an extremely thin shell. Fortunately, HP seems to have hit the balance perfectly, as it has just announced the world's thinnest RTX Spark laptops. These allow people to tap into on-board AI without sacrificing portability. … [Read more...]

ESP32 is a cheap and tiny microcontroller, but it can do things most people wouldn't expect. It's highly versatile and has onboard Bluetooth and Wi-Fi, making it well-suited to various smart home and networking projects. Besides, you can choose from many different ESP32 boards, depending on the complexity of your project. … [Read more...]

I have been using Plex on my Nvidia Shield TV Pro as a media server for a while now, but as my media collection has grown, I've considered getting a NAS to help with content flow. However, each time I think about it, I realize that with a bit of extra drive and a cheap powered hub, I can get by without the added expense. … [Read more...]

When I got the new Kindle Paperwhite 12th Gen, my older 11th Gen just sat on the nightstand. After jailbreaking my Kindle, I tend to use it mostly to run projects and rarely for reading. I remembered that Kindle runs a stripped-down Linux kernel. So jailbreaking gave me access to the kernel rather than to Amazon's reading app. … [Read more...]

I was reading an article from OpenAI, published earlier this year, about how the company changed its development environment to make apps more legible to Codex. The AI company says it exposed logs, metrics, and traces to Codex so the agent could reproduce bugs, validate fixes, and make the necessary changes. … [Read more...]

I feel like I've written this several times in my past few Pixel Pro reviews, but this year in particular, the Pixel 11 Pro is nearly identical to the Pixel 10 Pro. … [Read more...]

When you start to reach a higher capacity on your NAS drive, you might start considering adding one or two more hard drives in order to gain storage, but this might break the bank. … [Read more...]

Getting a new PC is always exciting; setting it up, less so. Fortunately, if you're a developer, Microsoft is planning something big. Called "Project Zenith," it aims to give people a Windows device that comes with all the basics for programming set up out of the box, and it seems to be more than just a new variant of Windows. … [Read more...]

I've learned that self-hosting comes with an unexpected problem: the more useful your server becomes, the more you have to protect it . What started as a few containers eventually turned into a setup holding files and services I actually care about. That made backup less of a side task and more of a requirement. … [Read more...]

If there's one thing that DLSS has taught PC gamers, it's that you can apparently have your cake and render fewer pixels too. Over the past few years, Nvidia's upscaling technology has become the go-to answer whenever a GPU starts running out of horsepower. The entire DLSS suite promises more frames while decreasing the load on the hardware, which, for 8GB graphics cards, sounds almost too good to … [Read more...]