The Steam Deck didn't make Linux gaming viable — it made Windows gaming look bloated
…Both include high-speed microSD card slot CPU 6 nm AMD APU CPU: Zen 2 4c/8t, 2.4-3.5GHz (up to 448 GFlops FP32) GPU: 8 RDNA 2 CUs, 1…
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Nvidia's RTX Spark is a chip unlike any other, and it could change Windows laptops forever
…The top-end N1X chip features 6,144 Blackwell cores, 20 Arm-based CPU cores designed in collaboration with MediaTek, and up to 128GB of unified memory with 300GB/s bandwidth. The…
AMD's X3D CPUs only help with two things, and most gamers have neither
…Challenge Complete Your Score / 8 Thanks for playing! But most people are spending more for no real gain just to be on the safer side Everyone's quick to recommend CPUs with…
The integrated graphics in AMD's latest APU now trade blows with an RTX 3060, and I'm not sure my dedicated card has a job anymore
…Generational gains at the bottom of the discrete stack have been thin, and entry cards have stayed stingy on memory while games have grown hungrier. The 8060S with the AI Max+ 395…
I ran Gemma 4 (26B) on a 10-year-old-GPU, and it's reliable enough to replace the cloud
…Then, I ran mkdir -p /usr/share/vulkan/icd.d/ and nano /usr/share/vulkan/icd.d/nvidia_icd.json to enter the nvidia_icd.json config file, where I pasted the…
Windows 11's system requirements killed my old laptop — so I made it a home server instead
…It demanded TPM and secure boot in addition to increased memory and processor requirements. It didn't feel serious at that time, because in 2021, Windows 10 worked perfectly fine on my…
Docker on Windows is about to become obsolete, and WSL containers are why
…Docker runs all your containers in the same shared utility VM, with shared resources, including a networking stack. That makes it insecure in my eyes, because we don't have control over…
Microsoft once spent $150 million to keep Apple alive, and it wasn't out of kindness
…a shared contractor between Apple and Microsoft had used proprietary Apple code used to develop QuickTime to then be used to develop Video for Windows for use on Intel processors. Keeping Apple…
Wine has been translating Windows games to Linux since 1993, but Proton is what made it effortless
…When a PS2 emulator runs a game, it's pretending to be a MIPS processor, and it's computationally expensive because you're running a fake computer inside your real one. Wine…
My decade with Synology is over — a networking company just proved there's a better way to build a NAS
…What I gain is network-attached storage that lives up to its name, not trying to be a home server. I build the pool, set up shares, and get on with work…