Your monitor's USB hub does more than a docking station, and costs nothing extra
…into your PC or scrambling for a dock. If you're buying a monitor in 2026, a built-in USB hub should be a non-negotiable feature. If you plan on sticking…
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I couldn’t get Plex remote streaming to work until I made this simple fix
…See available plans at Plex There are other fixes you should try Don't give up just yet Port forwarding solves the biggest problem, but it is not the only thing that…
Your self-hosted setup is a mess of IP addresses until you do this one thing
Ty Sherback Mar 26, 2026, 7:30 AM EDT His love of PCs and their components was born out of trying to squeeze every ounce of performance out of the family computer…
Your home network probably has a hidden bottleneck, and Wi-Fi 7 won't fix it
…Let's say you pay for a gigabit plan. Your ISP likely provides a modem with a single 1GB port or a 2.5GB port. Once you then factor in protocol overhead…
I started my home lab with a mini PC instead of a Raspberry Pi, and the difference was massive
…Then there are the two internal SATA ports, HDMI, DisplayPort, and six USB ports. Most SBCs simply can't match this, allowing me to use the mini PC as a true home…
4 USB-C features that felt like magic the first time I used them
…That was my first mistake, given how tiny the airline's planes are, but I was also surprised to find that there wasn't a standard plug or even a USB port…
It looks like the Steam Machine will likely get full HDMI 2.1 support after all
…When the console-like PC finally drops, it's expected to cost considerably more than Valve initially planned. Related The Steam Machine has been delayed, and it's going to cost you…
This $200 Android gaming handheld is the ultimate retro hit with Linux
…Take the Retroid Pocket 5, which I recently picked up after planning to hold out for the MSI Claw in lime green. Instead of spending multiple hundreds on a handheld PC with…
I built a perfectly segmented home network, then spent six months poking holes back through it
…The Pi ran Pi-hole serving DNS queries across VLANs, with each VLAN allowing inbound traffic on port 53. That worked exactly as I planned. What I missed was Home Assistant constantly…
Wi-Fi 7 is incredibly fast, but I still wouldn't use it on my gaming PC
…in the first place, especially when my internet plan isn't even close to maxing out my motherboard's 2.5G LAN port . Even for transferring large files to my NAS, the…