I have always enjoyed tinkering with my Raspberry Pi and discovering new ways to enhance its functionality. Over time, I have come across several add-ons that make each project more seamless and efficient. These tools have proven helpful in everything from home automation to creative DIY builds. I hope sharing them here will inspire you to try something new with your setup.

TriliumNext is arguably one of the best open-source note-taking apps out there. It works on Windows and Windows on ARM, macOS, Linux, and it comes with a ton of features you might not expect. A developer also created a Trilium Sender app for Android devices. However, the best thing about TriliumNext is that you can build a whole knowledge base and self-host notes. Here are a few reasons why you should self-host TriliumNext Notes, especially now that you can do that on an inexpensive device like a Raspberry Pi.

New games are released almost every day, and while I enjoy the thrill of modern titles like Fortnite, League of Legends, and Warzone, I often find myself missing the rush that older games used to provide. With each new release, classics like Street Fighter II, The Legend of Zelda, and Super Mario Bros. feel more and more like relics of the past, only accessible through emulators. Fortunately, there’s no shortage of emulators and operating systems dedicated to retro gaming. Popular options like Batocera and RetroPie are well-known, but there are plenty of other great choices for the task.

Adobe Bridge is one of Adobe’s only free desktop software tools. It’s a digital asset management or DAM tool that allows you to preview, organize, edit, and publish your creative images and assets. It uses metadata tools, has Adobe integration with other software, and supports RAW image processing. Well, Adobe Bridge is still part of the Adobe ecosystem, even if cost-free DigiKam is an open-source digital management toolfor images and video files which offers plenty of the same features as Bridge, but it keeps your privacy and security intact.

Congratulations! You've decided to enter the wonderful world of PC building with hopes of crafting your very own battlestation. As a first-time builder, if you have your eyes on a small form factor (SFF) build, that's commendable, but I would advise you to reconsider. SFF PCs have a unique set of challenges that aren't worth tackling on your first rodeo. The advantages of the compact size, unique aesthetic, and portability are real, but for the PC newbie, the downsides outweigh them easily.

I know, and understand why, the general reaction you get from players when you start telling them about a live service game is a massive groan. The reality is that the biggest examples players have for live service titles are the ones that do everything they can to gouge their player base.

When it comes to Windows, there are always those who refuse any change Microsoft makes and would prefer sticking with the old versions of specific tools. But for me, I find that the new tools Microsoft provides are generally a good evolution of what came before, and the best example of it in Windows 11 is the Settings app.

The world of browsers is a bit of a mess at the moment. Chromium rules the roost in terms of market share, while Mozilla's Gecko is tied to a company that appears to have started moving against its own lifelong promises of privacy and user protection. While you can use a browser forked from Firefox to remove any chance of that happening (I use Zen Browser), there's very little out there by way of legitimate competitors.

M.2 SSDs are some of the best storage options available. Not only do you get tons of different storage size options, but you also get great speeds and fantastic durability. Samsung makes some of our favorites, with its 990 series topping the charts on the many best of lists. The 990 Evo Plus combines the best of both worlds with excellent performance, while also being relatively affordable.

Spectre Divide, a Valorant-like free-to-play shooter where you control two bodies, is shutting down just months after its September launch.“We were optimistic about the first week,” developer Mountaintop Studios says in a post. “We’ve had ~400,000 players play, with a peak concurrent player count of ~10,000 across all platforms. But as time has gone on, we haven’t seen enough active players and incoming revenue to cover the day-to-day costs of Spectre and the studio.”The studio expects to take Spectre Divide offline “within the next 30 days,” and it will refund all money since the game’s first season, which kicked off on February 25th. Mountaintop Studios will also be “closing its doors” at the end of the week, according to the post.“We pursued every avenue to keep going, including finding a publisher, additional investment, and/or an acquisition,” Mountaintop says. “In the end, we weren’t able to make it work. The industry is in a tough spot right now.”In December, Mountaintop CEO Nate Mitchell and Spectre Divide game director Lee Horn told The Verge that things were already dire, and that the game’s console launch and new season would be its hail mary play. Horn said that the marketing was working going into launch, but that server issues at launch axed its momentum. “Unfortunately, the game fell over on day one,” he admitted. Mitchell told us the game needed thousands of concurrent players if it was going to survive, or else the company would run out of money this year. Unfortunately, the game’s new season peaked at just over 1,000 concurrents on Steam, and has been downhill ever since; presumably, Mountaintop saw its multiplatform peak of around 10,000 players drop similarly.“If the players are enjoying the game… if they aren’t into season one, they way we hope they are, we’ll have to take a hard look at if we should keep going on as we are, or if players are telling us this isn’t what we want,” Mitchell told us in December. Apparently, Mountaintop did have to take that hard look, and this is its decision.The Spectre Divide shutdown follows the disastrous launch of Sony’s forgettable Concord hero shooter. Sony has since closed down Concord’s development studio and permanently shut down the game.Additional reporting by Sean Hollister

If you've printed an important document only to find random text and data mixed in with your actual content, your first instinct might be to blame the printer. But if you've already restarted it multiple times, reinstalled and updated its drivers, and tried every fix you could think of, you may have just wasted your time. Microsoft has now acknowledged that this is a Windows bug, and the culprit is a recent Windows 11 preview update.

If you've ever thought about recording your game footage, or wanted to stream your game sessions online, then a capture card is going to be essential. While there are plenty of great capture card options to choose from, we think Elgato offers some of the best that you can buy, with most of their cards delivering a good mix of features, while being extremely easy to use.