6 ways you can take advantage of a spare PCIe slot

PCIe add-in cards used to be a necessity. Decades ago, motherboards only came with very basic features, and you’d have to fill in the gaps with various PCIe devices. As time has gone on, though, that’s changed. Most motherboards incorporate those features into the board itself, leaving a bunch of empty PCIe slots sitting below your GPU.

John Doe
New York

I didn’t think Claude Pro was worth the subscription, but it’s now my personal movie and meal curator

I have been a long-time user of ChatGPT and Claude, but never considered the paid tier worth the price. Since my daily workflow doesn't demand anything more than basic title ideation and article research, a regular subscription wouldn't have made sense. Well, that was until I realized what I could...

Caroline Rasmussen
Denmark

Cyberdecks used to look like little laptops, but now they’re getting more personal

DIYer and TikTok user Annike Tan, who goes by @ubeboobey, can carry her cyberdeck around without anyone noticing because it doesn't look like a computer at all. Tan, who has been featured in The Cut and Wired, went viral earlier this year with a mermaid-themed cyberdeck she made inside an...

Felecia Beck
United States

Nvidia thinks my RTX 20-series GPU is too old for frame generation, but I use it through lossless scaling anyway

When I used Lossless Scaling for the first time in my life, I was amazed. The first thought that occurred to me was that frame generation, as a technology, had been successfully democratized. A $7 utility on Steam had done what the incumbent semiconductor giants wouldn't, which was, to bring...

Srđan Branković
Serbia

I downgraded to free Claude for a week, and it changed how I feel about paying $20 a month

Claude is the only AI subscription that's outlasted everything else in my stack this year. I've cycled through and dropped a fair few others, but Claude is the one I never managed to cancel. The reasoning's pretty straightforward - Pro gives me the model lineup I rely on day to...

Aaliyah Hall
New Zealand

I replaced Cloudflare Tunnel with Pangolin, and finally own my whole ingress path

Whether a new home lab enthusiast or an experienced homelabber, Cloudflare is often their first choice for building their infrastructure. Not because Cloudflare is free, but because it solves real problems without any unnecessary hassle. A few days ago, I wrote about how Cloudflare had quietly become a load-bearing infrastructure...

Michael Johnson
Chicago

Valve says it’s ready to launch the Steam Machine this summer

Valve now says that the delayed Steam Machine PC and Steam Frame VR headset are set to launch sometime this summer. In a Thursday blog post detailing its Verified programs for both pieces of hardware, Valve concludes by saying that "We're excited for players to try your titles on the...

Antonija Jakovljević
Serbia

I keep frame generation off, and upscaling is the only half of DLSS I trust

As someone who owns a GPU from Nvidia's latest generation and plugs a QD-OLED 4K 240Hz monitor into it, I'm exactly the type of person that Nvidia built DLSS Multi Frame Generation for. The hardware, panel, refresh rate, and the need for a high framerate all squarely fit what it...

Aaliyah White
New Zealand

Terminal agents are replacing VS Code as the center of my development workflow

Visual Studio Code's popularity has exploded over the last decade, and it's become an essential part of the workflow for many developers. I've always thought of it like a carefully customized tool where my extensions, keybindings, and configuration come together to create my ideal coding environment. That view hasn't changed...

Michael Johnson
Chicago

I ditched streaming for physical media, and now I watch more than ever

Since my son was born, my wife and I have been revisiting our physical media, mostly to verify which children's movies we're okay with him watching and which we aren't (as it turns out, I watched a lot of things I probably shouldn't have). In the process, I've rediscovered a...

Bertram Christensen
Denmark

ChatGPT can now remember you better by dreaming about you while it ‘sleeps’

It's near-impossible to guess where the world of AI LLMs will go next. With the technology moving at a rapid pace, we're seeing companies try all sorts of things to make a product that outdoes its rivals. For a while, AI developers advertised their models as a reliable worker that's...

Daniel Martinez
Dallas

Open Notebook’s AI-powered podcasts are a game-changer for productivity, provided you’re willing to configure them right

When it comes to productivity-enhancing AI tools, it’s hard to ignore NotebookLM. Capable of aggregating documents and academic material in neatly organized notebooks, Google’s research app lets you run LLM queries on your own data banks instead of forcing the AI models to rely on their trained data. And by...