I removed my biggest PC bottleneck, and immediately found another
…He uses a Windows PC for desktop use and a MacBook for traveling, but dislikes some of the quirks of macOS. You're more likely to catch him at the gym or…
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I replaced my 12-core with an X3D CPU for high-refresh gaming, and the difference was bigger than I expected
…He uses a Windows PC for desktop use and a MacBook for traveling, but dislikes some of the quirks of macOS. You're more likely to catch him at the gym or…
Fedora Atomic is the desktop OS I keep recommending to people who don't want to think about Linux
…When you next restart your PC, your OS 'changes tracks' from the old files to the new ones. But the old files are still very much there. Different atomic operating systems will…
SteamOS couldn’t revive my old GPU, so I went with this non-Bazzite distro instead
…no matter how insane or quirky they may sound. With SteamOS now available for conventional desktops, I wanted to deploy it bare-metal on my old PC, partly because I wanted to…
Moving to 4K taught me which monitor specs actually matter
…OLED and QD-OLED are where things get genuinely exciting at 4K, and this is where my upgrade really made the most difference. Per-pixel illumination means true blacks, and that doesn…
The GTX 1080 Ti was legendary, but this 4-year-old Nvidia GPU may age even better
…He uses a Windows PC for desktop use and a MacBook for traveling, but dislikes some of the quirks of macOS. You're more likely to catch him at the gym or…
For under $100, an Xbox 360 with homebrew beats almost every modern console I own
…It is not as seamless as some older consoles, and the current softmod methods still have quirks, but that charm makes it more interesting. It feels like the console is finally opening…
Google Home and Alexa can't do what I built in Home Assistant, and that's the whole point
…However, things are vastly different now that HASS supports voice satellite functionality on its Android companion app, which lets me trigger my entire voice assistant pipeline using hot words from an old…
Local LLMs work best when you're not loyal to just one
…Rather than locking myself into a proprietary LLM ecosystem or being forced to choose between similar models trained with the same algorithms, my self-hosted Ollama, LM Studio, and (most importantly) llama…
The best upgrade I made to my home lab had nothing to do with the components inside
…Related Used Xeon CPUs are the home lab secret nobody talks about Despite their quirks, old server-grade processors are perfect for home lab experiments More drive bays and better airflow to…