…MBR-formatted drives are incompatible with modern UEFI, forcing it to operate in the legacy BIOS mode using a setting called Compatibility Support Module (CSM). This feature allows UEFI to support older…
…NTFS, which is the default for Windows machines, tends to perform worse on routers than exFAT or ext4, since NTFS isn't natively supported by the Linux-based firmware running on most…
Jeff Butts Mar 25, 2026, 12:01 PM EDT Jeff's been involved in the IT industry since before the Internet and spent more than 20 years working in technical support, system…
…Toughbook Total Defense, Panasonic's end-to-end security stack, protects hardware, firmware, operating system, and endpoint layers. Lastly, the Toughbook 56 is backward compatible with Toughbook 54 and Toughbook 55 vehicle…
…Sometimes that's Windows 11 , like how I recently broke my user account updating the firmware on an Nvidia GPU, and had to reinstall from scratch. Other times, it's systemd or…
…Plus, since it's based on OpenWrt, firmware support should be guaranteed for a long time to come, whether it's from the company directly or by just grabbing the pure OpenWrt…
…DS5Dongle firmware on an overclocked Pico 2W is cheap, easy to set up, and works wirelessly. One of the coolest things about the tinkering community is that, if you have a problem…
…Controllers weren’t nearly as sophisticated, firmware-level optimizations were basic at best, and garbage collection often struggled to keep up with sustained workloads. When drives filled up, performance absolutely collapsed , making…
…application, instead opting to build it into my own firmware that I knew already had complete hardware compatibility. This uses the Board Support Package (BSP) to instantiate the hardware, initializes Wi-Fi…
…The Technicolors, Sagemcoms, and rebranded Netgears that show up at your door are usually stripped-down appliances with limited firmware support, no bridge mode, and web interfaces that look like they were…