I regret switching to Linux, even though I wanted to love it
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A Valve engineer just stopped Linux from stealing VRAM from your 8GB GPU
…of Intel and Maxime Ripard of Red Hat. With the DMEM group controller, Linux can now identify which memory blocks are most important. Now, instead of evicting blocks of memory without worrying…
I built a 10-inch ePaper dashboard for my 3D printer, and it's the best display I've ever used
…On the bright side, you can use a combination of my findings and the custom driver I found for the display to get it working, and I'll link those later on…
Nvidia's resurrection of the RTX 3060 proves that older GPUs still matter
…need driver support. "Driver support" doesn't just mean being able to install and run the newest Game Ready drivers, either. It should mean support for the newer DLSS models and versions…
I kept track of every Windows 11 update that broke something this year, and the list is getting long
…Users initially thought that drivers were to blame, and after Nvidia's RTX 50-series launch drivers were proven to be a mess , who could blame them? Two driver updates shipped around…
Most "slow PC" advice you'll find online is 20 years out of date, and some of it is making things worse
…The best approach to "update your drivers" is a targeted one; download the GPU driver from Nvidia or AMD, the chipset driver from your motherboard vendor, firmware for the storage controller, and…
I ran local LLMs on Intel's cheapest iGPU, and the results were surprisingly decent
…But what if I ditched the dedicated GPU altogether and tried running LLMs on weak hardware – preferably a device that features an iGPU but doesn’t cost an arm and a leg…
My motherboard’s default BIOS settings were secretly killing my gaming experience
…Enabling PBO immediately lets my CPU boost higher and stay there longer during games. The difference was immediate after enabling the feature, and the system started boosting its CPU frequencies across multiple…
I upgraded to a fast SSD and my system was still slow — here's what I missed
…Software, drivers, and configuration matter more than you think How misconfigurations quietly hold your SSD back But hardware wasn’t the only thing holding things back. I didn’t know driver support…
BIOS chip capacities are changing, and its going to affect how long your PC lasts
…While earlier BIOS chips shipped with 8KB or 64KB of memory, modern consumer boards now feature up to 16MB or 32MB chips. More recently, 64MB chips have entered the market, and they…