I stopped treating my Raspberry Pi like a tiny server — and it finally clicked
…If it had Ethernet, USB ports, and enough Linux support to boot, I figured it should be doing more. I’d stack services on it, push it into roles better suited to…
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Modern Standby is draining your Windows 11 laptop battery, and Microsoft won't fix it
…LITTLE architecture, which allows processors to have more powerful cores that are used for active tasks and more power-efficient cores that handle background tasks much more efficiently, at the expense of…
My Steam Deck is gathering dust because emulation handhelds got too good
…The operating system on these often runs on a micro SD card, but could be Linux-based, Android-based, or a different core altogether. The OS is set up to include all…
Google Keep still can't do what this open-source notes app has been doing for years
…It runs on iOS, Android, Windows, macOS, Linux, and the web, so it's not tied to any ecosystem. And at its core it's a plain text and Markdown app, and…
The best home server OS in 2026 isn't trying to be a NAS at all
…Plus, it gives you a management layer for your other OSes Proxmox makes handling multiple operating systems simple. One big example? Adjusting boot files on Linux-based VMs, which can be a…
The Steam Deck taught PC handheld makers the wrong lesson
…Valve built a bespoke Linux compositor to hide the Linux desktop completely. The user interacts with a unified controller-native UI that handles system-level game suspends flawlessly. You never have to…
I stopped using Obsidian for quick notes, and my vault actually got useful
…Pick a lighter tool for quick capture Let something else handle the small stuff I'm not telling anyone to ditch Obsidian, but to rather find an alternative specifically made for quick…
A used Lenovo ThinkCentre is still the best $100 you can spend on a home lab
…At its $100 floor, you can typically find a M710q with a quad-core i5. It remains the most cost-effective entry point into a serious home lab, and stepping up to…
Orange Pi boards have become serious home servers, but the software side hasn't caught up
…Boards built around Rockchip’s RK3588 and RK3588S combine four Cortex-A76 performance cores with four Cortex-A55 efficiency cores, and the full RK3588 adds a Mali-G610 GPU plus an NPU…
Running Proxmox on my ASUS NUC 14 Pro Plus taught me where mini PCs still fall short
…ASUS NUC 14 Pro+ $962 $1049 Save $87 CPU Intel Core Ultra 7 155H Graphics Intel Arc Graphics (Core Ultra) Memory 32GB Storage 1TB NVMe SSD Display 2 x HDMI 2.1…