I had an old PC collecting dust in a corner, and I was seriously considering retiring it for good. Its aging hardware couldn’t keep up with my demanding workflow, and upgrading it didn’t make much financial sense. However, instead of letting it go to waste, I decided to give it one last chance with Docker.

Running a personal Jellyfin server isn't exactly complicated. But if you're building a system that others will tap into, things get a bit overwhelming. Whether it's a family media server or you're going wider with a friends group, tracking what people watch, what they request, and what's queued for download is a minor infrastructure challenge.

You know what the worst part of getting a new Windows PC or doing a clean Windows install is? Once you boot up for the first time, the PC is blank, and it takes many hours to make it yours. As someone who is into consumer tech journalism and keeps testing new hardware, I have been in that situation many times.

If you use Claude daily or for heavy projects, you've probably watched the usage meter as closely as the actual output. Anthropic has raised the limits a few times this year, which does help, though there's still a weekly cap behind all of it, and Opus chews through that faster than the lighter models. I think what stings is how much of the allowance goes to tasks that never needed a top model in the first place, like asking what one setting in a config file does.

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Ask Claude Opus 5.5 something that brushes against security, and the reply can come back from a different model. A notice appears, the answer gets tagged Opus 4.8, and Anthropic's newest flagship stays switched to the older model for the rest of the chat.

Modern motherboards still ship with obscure headers that are almost useless for the average user. The reasons range from legacy compatibility and niche relevance to enterprise usage, but some headers can become a security risk under the wrong circumstances. If your PC is old enough, your motherboard may be using a discrete TPM (Trusted Platform Module), leaving the door open for a security exploit using your unpopulated debug header.

The cool thing about building your own devices is that you don't need to make do with subpar products. If you think something is lacking, you can roll up your sleeves and add it yourself. Such is the case with this DIY sports tracker, which keeps tabs on different matches between major sports leagues and comes with some sleek animations to boot.

It's no secret that I love handheld gaming, whether that's a small device emulating older games or using one of the most powerful gaming handhelds on the market. But some games deserve a larger screen, or just aren't playable on the handhelds you can carry around, especially if you want to play strategy games.

If there's one piece of technology that even your least tech-savvy friend probably has at least a vague understanding of, it's a VPN. Sure, they might not necessarily know what the acronym stands for or how one actually works. However, what they likely do know is that using one is supposed to make their internet activity more private. Beyond privacy, they might also associate VPNs with accessing websites and streaming content that would otherwise be unavailable in their region.

Note-taking apps have a habit of promising you organization, then handing the actual organizing back to you anyway. Obsidian gives you a blank vault and leaves every folder and link up to you. Notion's a bit different since it has a template for everything, but I've lost whole weekends tweaking those before writing a single line in them. Even Windows Notepad renders Markdown now, so there's no shortage of places to put notes.

Some of the more ingenious projects I've reported on were born from limitations. While tinkerers will gladly load up their gadgets with as many features as possible, things change when they want to make something for someone who may not be as big of a tech geek as they are. Such is the case of this lovely Raspberry Pi project that allowed a grandma to keep up with the family's Telegram group with minimal interaction.