3D printing often feels like the perfect answer to everyday annoyances. If something does not quite work in your space, you can design or download a fix and have it ready in a few hours. I have used my printer for plenty of genuinely helpful projects, from cable guides to storage bins. These prints, however, taught me that not every clever idea survives the long-term wear and tear of a real home.

Ever since its introduction, Docker Desktop has been the de facto standard for container management, but its resource-heavy nature forced many of us to seek alternatives like Portainer. While Portainer is powerful for fleet management, I have finally switched my entire workflow to Podman, and I can confidently say this daemonless, rootless container engine is better than both its predecessor.

If you're in the gaming scene right now, you've likely already seen two trends arising after Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 won Game of the Year at the Game Awards. The first is a whole bunch of memes claiming that Clair Obscur can win awards it's not even eligible to win, and the second is some serious discourse over games using generative AI to create assets.

We all have dealt with slow, complicated software that promises productivity but delivers frustration. But what if the secret to regaining hours every week wasn’t more features, but fewer? Over the years, I have curated a list of essential, lightweight productivity tools that slip seamlessly into my workflow.

There are plenty of free note-taking apps out there, but you'll often find a trade-off between privacy and convenience. Cloud syncing often comes at the cost of security or with limited devices on a free plan.

We love Proxmox VE here at XDA, but that's not the only service the company provides. There's a backup solution for Proxmox, a datacenter management tool, and then there's the one we're talking about now — Proxmox Email Gateway. This is an essential program for the enterprise if you'll be hosting an email server to keep company data in-house.

It has been a really harsh year for building a PC, hasn't it? Near the start, we saw astronomical prices for Nvidia's newest RTX 50 series, as scalpers bought up GPUs and resold them for a killing. Then, right as the RTX 50 prices began to get sane, we saw RAM and SSD prices spike massively as AI companies began buying them in bulk. We even saw Crucial duck out of the consumer market to better serve business demand.

Like most chronically online people, I keep coming across cool projects and products. That's exactly how I came across Skylight Calendar. It's a digital picture frame that doubles up as a family calendar. Sounds pretty nifty. What isn't nifty is the $300 price point of the model with a 15-inch display. But it did seem to solve a problem we faced as a family. Like most families, we've been juggling multiple calendars across phones, tablets, and laptops. Everyone has their own schedule, and then we have shared calendars for shared activities. Having access to a shared dashboard for our calendars would solve a big problem with not just glancing at our events, but also with making time for shared activities, especially if the dashboard was always visible and up to date — like the Skylight calendar. But I wasn't very comfortable paying that much for a closed ecosystem and subscription. Thing is, I already run Home Assistant and have a wall-mounted tablet that serves up Home Assistant. How hard could it be to try to build my own version?

If you have a home server or home lab, you might always be thinking about upgrades to bolster its capabilities. From more storage and a new GPU to ECC RAM and 10Gb Ethernet, there's a lot you can do to upgrade your home server. That said, you might be ignoring a critical upgrade as you chase better specs. A UPS should be the next investment for your home server, providing not only power backup for uninterrupted operations, but also protection from power anomalies. Without a UPS, you're risking annoying interruptions, data loss, and even permanent damage to your hardware.

Chromebooks don't tend to live particularly long lives, at least in the eyes of Google. Once they age out of the update window, they slowly begin to migrate to a drawer or e-waste pile somewhere. That's really unfortunate, and it doesn't have to be this way.

Did you know that, until very recently, Google's website supported the Sega Dreamcast's browser? Unfortunately, by the time you've read these words, it's too late to dig the Dreamcast out of the attic, dust it down, and see for yourself, as the search engine giant has finally cut support for anyone still browsing the internet using Sega's final entry into the console market.

Cookie tins feel like a blessing and a curse. On one hand, when you're in the mood for a cookie, you have to wrestle with the lid for a little while to unleash the goodies within. On the other hand, there's a good reason why people use them to store sewing supplies; they're pretty tough and can last a while.