2025-08-15 23:30:10
I didn’t expect to lose access to everything I had built. After nearly two decades of living in spaces where I could control the network, set up and expand my home lab, and optimize my workflow around reliable, high-speed internet, I moved into temporary housing provided by my partner’s job. It seemed like a good deal—closer to their office, significantly cheaper rent, and just a short-term disruption. I barely gave it a second thought.
2025-08-15 23:00:10
If you want the best gaming performance out of your PC, the traditional wisdom is that you should chase 100% GPU utilization. There's some truth to that sentiment. If you're looking for the best performance possible, you want the limiting factor to be the component contributing most to your gaming performance, which, in most games, is your GPU. It's a good gut check against CPU bottlenecks and out-of-whack settings, but it's not the end goal.
2025-08-15 22:30:10
If you're looking to upgrade your PC's GPU this generation and you don't feel like spending a few thousand on an Nvidia RTX 5090, you've got a few options. The RTX 5080 is a little cheaper, but still expensive. AMD's Radeon 9070 and 9070 XT, but both of AMD's high-end graphics cards often retail for $700 or more. The Nvidia RTX 5070 Ti is more affordable than the RTX 5080, but you're generally better off going for either AMD card for the price, and the RTX 5070 was almost immediately panned by reviewers as its barely an upgrade over the RTX 4070.
2025-08-15 22:00:10
Audio on your PC is a very personal experience, and what I like may not be to everyone's tastes. Audiophiles and PC enthusiasts collectively agree that different setups can make the same track sound totally different, but acquiring new headphones, a dedicated DAC, an amplifier, a clean power source, and filters can quickly burn a deep hole in your pocket. Moreover, headphone reviews are also invariably colored by the tester's personal experience with other gear.
2025-08-15 21:30:10
Setting up a Windows 11 PC isn't exactly a pleasant experience, and that's for a few reasons. Simply installing the operating system can take a while, and then setting up all the apps from your previous PC can add hours to how long it takes to get a new computer fully ready to go.
2025-08-15 21:00:10
Retro handheld consoles do carry a special value in all our hearts. They remind us of a time when gaming was so much simpler, and the ability to carry a console with you that let you game while traveling, during the commute, or lunch breaks at college was incredible. Today, there's no doubt that we can very well emulate all of those consoles on something as simple as a $100 phone, but nothing beats the magic of gaming on an old handheld console, the way it was meant to be played.
