Why Zip drives dominated the 90s, then vanished almost overnight
…A 90s revolution Zip drives were a huge step forward In the early to mid-90s, portable storage was mostly defined by the standard three-and-a-half-inch floppy disk, which…
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Your monitor's USB hub does more than a docking station, and costs nothing extra
…On the other hand, docking stations bring a lot of baggage with them — extra ports you'll never touch, another power brick to hide, and a box that just sits there half…
Trying to self-host LLMs made me realize local AI has a friction problem, not a quality problem
…Maintenance becomes part of the lifestyle, and that lifestyle flirts dangerously with unpaid IT work. In order to know when a newer or better version of your favorite model has been released…
Asus forgot that business casual is supposed to be boring, and the ExpertBook Ultra is nearly flawless as a result
…Light, powerful, incredible battery life, and a screen that screams quality. Now, you might notice that it's got the Intel Core Ultra X7 358H rather than the more powerful X9 chip…
Google's AI isn't losing, it's just hiding the best features where nobody looks
…I typically live by that in my personal life and it also extends to tech. However, and I don't say this lightly, Google might be the single biggest exception to that…
I gave my gaming PC and phone the same local LLM tasks, and only one of them is still in my daily rotation
…Phi 3.5 mini instruct, on the other hand, kept crashing the app and at one point my phone, even at the smallest quant and half the size of Gemma and Qwen…
6 unsaid rules all PC gamers must obey (but don't)
…Steam's early adoption and integration with popular titles like Half-Life 2 gave it an insurmountable head start in digital distribution. 06 / 8 Technology Which graphics API, introduced by Microsoft in…
I defended DLSS for years, but DLSS 5's AI slop crosses a line that shouldn't exist
…This AI look threatens every game's individuality Passing through the same neural filter would make everything look the same Anyone who has ever played even a halfway-respectable amount of games…
Home Assistant's ePaper ecosystem finally has an open standard worth building around
…It won't replace BLE for the boards where battery life matters most, but it will give you another option for plug-in devices like a wall-mounted info panel. There's…
Remote monitoring is the 3D printing feature I can't live without now
…If a print starts curling or a spaghetti failure begins, I can pause it before it wastes half the spool. If everything looks good, I don't have to break the flow…