…After working for an indie game studio and acting as the family's go-to technician for all computer issues, he found his passion for writing and decided to use his skill…
…And the old-fashioned "Shut Down" or "Turn Off" doesn't even resolve all of these issues, leaving your system helpless. Related 5 easy PC maintenance tasks that keep your system running…
…from my old laptop and NAS setup. The laptop could run Jellyfin, but transcoding was inconsistent, especially with larger 4K files or formats. The NAS had the same issue, except worse. NAS…
…to Proxmox and ESXi on the ZimaBoard 2, and the SBC had no compatibility or performance issues whatsoever. And I’ve got the N150 processor to thank for that. Even if it…
…LXCs are a godsend for underpowered machines Even a RAM-deficient PC can run a handful of containers When I talk about virtual guests that can perform well on old hardware, I…
…I spent the entire day trying to solve different display driver issues after I first suspected that background processes were causing problems with my system performance. The system had enough processing power…
…You’ve probably tossed a bunch of processor cores and system memory at it to avoid running into performance issues while working on your projects. Unfortunately, if you’re using the basic…
…Powerline adapters worked perfectly, though, even the older AV2 protocol, which I'd had issues with previously, as it doesn't handle cross phases (having to go from one side to the…
…While newer OLEDs have mostly addressed this issue, text clarity on my AW2725DF still isn't as good as IPS, even though it's a 3rd-gen QD-OLED panel. It's…
…Gaming performance of a GPU degrades with time, as modern games require more raw power, whereas video codecs evolve much slower. An old 2016 GPU encoder can handle similar transcoding workloads as…