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Half Your Case Fans Are Plugged Into Headers Your Motherboard Can't Actually Control
A 4-pin header doesn't always mean your motherboard has proper control over whatever fan you connect to it.
I Automated My 20-Year-Old Appliances with Home Assistant
The most reliable appliances in a power user's home are often 10 to 20 years old - and they can still join your Home Assistant setup.
I Gave Windows Proper Tiling and Stopped Dragging Windows Around
Snap Layouts feels bare-bones after a while. Switching to GlazeWM, an i3-style tiling manager, changed how I manage windows on Windows 11.
I let this free tool re-encode my Plex library overnight, and my media drive is half empty again
Adding new content to your Plex library is so easy that you don't realize how quickly you've accumulated terabytes' worth of media.
I run Lossless Scaling on old TV shows, and they look better than the official remasters
Lossless Scaling is known for frame generation, but its upscaling layer can make old DVD box sets look surprisingly good.
Old powerful PC parts are affordable, but they have an unexpected cost
PC parts have been exorbitantly expensive for the past few years, with no clear sign of going back down.
Project Dream ROM, the prototype that became Banjo-Kazooie, has appeared online for preservation
The ROM for Project Dream, a cancelled Rare game that predates Banjo-Kazooie, has been dumped online in a call for preservation.
Proxmox wastes power by default, and the fix takes a single setting
Proxmox ships with the performance CPU governor enabled by default, which can waste power when your server is mostly idle.
Someone Made Their Own GBA-to-Switch 2 Pokémon Transferrer After Nintendo Closed Its Official Route
A hardware tinkerer has figured out a way to transfer Pokémon from a GBA directly to the Switch 2, without Nintendo's services.
Years After Leaving Google Photos, the Thing I Miss Most Isn't What I Expected
For years, Google Photos was the place where I kept my entire photo collection. Eventually, I switched to Immich.
5 Claude Productivity Workflows I Discovered After Thinking I Knew It All
I used Claude for writing and research, but a few workflows changed how I treat it as a productivity tool.
I ditched my car's basic equalizer for Poweramp and Android Auto
Most car stereos give you a basic equalizer, if that. Poweramp and Android Auto can go much further.
I Let Claude Code Run Wild in a Virtual Machine, and It Changed How I Use Auto Mode
Running Claude Code inside a virtual machine lets you use auto mode freely without risking your main system's files or credentials.
One DNS change fixed the "internet is slow" complaint I'd been chasing for months
For about three months, my mother told me the internet was slow. Speed tests showed full bandwidth and barely any packet loss.