5 home networking choices I regret making
Ty Sherback Apr 18, 2026, 9:30 AM EDT His love of PCs and their components was born out of trying to squeeze every ounce of performance out of the family computer…
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My Proxmox backups stopped being a storage nightmare with this workaround
Ayush Pande Apr 15, 2026, 10:01 AM EDT Ayush Pande is a PC hardware and gaming writer. When he's not working on a new article, you can find him with…
You can now legally rip your Wii, GameCube, and Xbox games using a Blu-ray drive
…few years, PC Blu-ray drives have become more expensive. That said, you can still pick one up for roughly $100-$200, which isn't that bad if you plan to back…
I chose the wrong motherboard on my old PC, and it doomed every upgrade that followed
…stuck with a single NVMe SSD for years When I was building this PC, I had no plans to buy an SSD, let alone an NVMe drive. I was content with a…
I change these 5 storage settings on every new PC build, and they prevent headaches later
Ty Sherback Apr 22, 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…
Smart plugs are secretly the best troubleshooting tools you already own
…an automation tool for dumb appliances around the house, say portable fans, lights, and more. But then it hit me, if a smart plug could remotely control power , track energy usage, and…
I wrote a script to run Claude Code with my local LLM, and skipping the cloud has never been easier
…The host and port are configurable through environment variables too, so if you're running your server on a different machine or port, you can override them without editing the script. Local…
I tested dual-boot, WSL2, and VMs to run Linux apps on Windows, and only one was worth keeping
Ayush Pande May 2, 2026, 12:30 PM EDT Ayush Pande is a PC hardware and gaming writer. When he's not working on a new article, you can find him with…
I turned my old Android phone into a useful dashboard diagnostic display in just 10 minutes
…His curiosity about how things work sparked an intrest in building PCs and taking apart tech gadged to understand them better. Beyond that, he enjoys experimenting with new gadgets as an enthusisast…
Windows updates are already bad, but even worse when Microsoft uses my PC to update yours
…So, instead of every Windows PC downloading its update straight from Microsoft's servers, systems can also retrieve portions of those files from other computers that already have them loaded. It's…