Your monitor's USB hub does more than a docking station, and costs nothing extra
…Related 5 upgrades I'm making to my PC setup (none of them are PC components) Not all PC setup upgrades need to be expensive to matter. I'm making five affordable…
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I thought I needed a new router, but turning my old one into an access point fixed more than I expected
…You can then connect your laptop directly to a LAN port on the old router with an Ethernet cable to configure it. Do not connect the two routers together just yet. Next…
Your cheap unmanaged switch might be the bottleneck you forgot existed
…Add one new mini PC with a 2.5GbE port, or finally pull the trigger on that 10GbE NIC for the NAS, and the cheap switch becomes the active bottleneck for that…
I fixed my TV's flickering black screen with a $15 HDMI cable and a hidden menu setting
…ways including interviewing the CEO of Razer, AMD's Director of Product Marketing and the VP of Lenovo. Passionate about gaming and PC technology, she has built countless computers, keyboards and other…
You're paying $100+ extra for motherboard features you'll never use
…port for faster networking, but at that point, you're just trying to future-proof your build instead of paying for something you'll actually use today. Related Future-proofing my PC…
Cloudflare Mesh gave me everything Tailscale did, minus another company in my network
…There was no direct peer-to-peer mesh feel since the homelab server was working as a connector, not individual devices talking directly to each other. But that dependency didn’t change…
4 HDMI gadgets I wish I’d discovered a lot sooner
…The Bi-Directional HDMI switcher One box that simplified multi-display setup I used to think HDMI switches were only useful for adding more ports to a TV or monitor, but I…
You're spending too much on your motherboard, and it's not helping performance
…the component that's holding your PC back. You're paying a premium for features you don't need More PCIe lanes and USB ports sound great, but are you actually going…
Valve isn't ditching Windows or x86, but it's quietly making both optional
…Ocarina of Time remake — I already made my own Ship of Harkinian powers a native PC port of the N64 classic. FEX fills the x86-to-Arm gap Running Windows x86 games…
I kept waiting for Docker to fail, but nineteen containers on bare metal proved Proxmox wrong
…Troubleshooting was also easier since the logs, container configs, and the Compose stacks were there in the Portainer UI. When something broke, I debugged Docker directly via Portainer. I didn’t have…