Everyone's aware of M.2 NVMe SSDs. You're probably using one or more of them on your PC right now. What about enterprise NVMe SSDs with form factors like U.2 and SAS? Enterprise SSDs are some of the most durable, reliable, and performant pieces of hardware on the market. They're designed for server environments with 24/7 uptime requirements, and are essentially over-engineered for any consumer setup. If you're able to get used drives for cheap, however, they could be one of the best deals for your PC or home server. Sites like eBay are full of reliable sellers offloading ex-enterprise SSDs for a bargain, and the current SSD market might be the best time to look into them.

There is no end to the number of to-do list and task management apps available across the web. Todoist, Asana, Zoho — the list goes on and on. As powerful as those applications are, their best features are locked behind paywalls, and you don't have as much control over their privacy as you might with something else. Tududi offers a fully self-hosted, totally free alternative that outstrips anything third-party apps have to offer in a lot of different ways. It's self-hosted, so the initial setup can be slightly confusing, but it's one of the easiest applications to get up and running that I've worked with.

Eleven years ago, I played Alien: Isolation for the first time. It was my very first introduction to the Alien IP, and I was taken aback by everything about the game. The visuals, the atmosphere, and the dread it instilled in me. I remember being stuck in a single hallway for three hours over the course of two days, simply because the Xenomorph terrified me so.

We all love a good PC upgrade, whether it’s a faster GPU, more RAM, or even a better cooling unit for the CPU. While these upgrades are usually straightforward, there are often factors to consider when swapping out a part and/or adding a new one. An oversight in this department can potentially mean instability, not unlocking full performance, or even worse performance than before the upgrade.

To many Nintendo fans, the Metroid series is a sacred part of Nintendo's long history of great franchises. While the mainline games have been praised as genre-defining titles, Metroid has also been viewed fondly by fans for taking risks with spin-offs on various Nintendo platforms. The Metroid Prime series has been one of those success stories that people love from the GameCube era, which led to its success over the years up to the release of Metroid Prime 4: Beyond on the Nintendo Switch 2. But the legacy of the series isn't without its failures.

HP makes some of the best business laptops, and while most of the HP EliteBook 6 G1q is underwhelming, it has one killer feature — optional 5G connectivity that's unlimited usage in the U.S., and connects to all the major carriers, so you'll always have the best chance of a strong signal. HP Go is seriously good stuff, and it's a shame that companies keep cellular-equipped laptops for business users and not the general consumer.

I've dabbled in PowerShell scripts over the years, but they present an interesting, albeit niche, problem. There's really no notification that the script has run. While the script might run just fine, the only indication that it has completed is that the terminal window closes. This means you might have a scheduled task running overnight, but you'll have to hunt for log files to see if it actually worked. This extends to simple tasks like backups and file conversions, as well as maintenance jobs. That's where BurntToast comes in. BurntToast fixes that by giving you a direct way to send Windows toast notifications from PowerShell, giving you visible alerts, and making automation easier to track.

Noticed your home network slowing down? Spinning wheels while browsing your favorite websites? Transfer speeds that seem to go backwards? You might be tempted to blame your router for the issues, and often it is the culprit, but there are plenty of other things that can break your home network. Smart home devices are a frequent culprit at my home, as are cloud providers, device updates, and the occasional knocked cable.

Much has been said about what the best alternatives are to Windows. With Windows 10 being officially unsupported for most people, users have been forced to ponder whether to stay on an unsupported OS, upgrade to Windows 11, or switch to Linux, and a lot of people have chosen that last option.

If you want to supercharge your productivity on Windows, PowerToys is one of the tools you should install on your PC. It can help you with a broad range of productivity tasks, because it has multiple different modules, each designed for a specific task. Command Palette (CmdPal) is one of them, and a lot of exciting things are happening around it.

The world of tabletop 3D printing has undergone a quiet revolution. What was once the exclusive domain of engineering labs and deep-pocketed hobbyists is now an accessible reality for almost anyone willing to tinker with firmware and mechanics. A decent printer now costs as much as a week's groceries, and the user communities are large enough to guarantee beginners swift debugging. This democratization of manufacturing has fundamentally shifted how individuals like you and I think about our workspaces. Sitting at my PC today and looking back at 2025, there are a handful of prints that stand out to me as the best that I've seen this year in the realm of computing accessories.

Call me an old-timer, but I personally prefer my Windows apps to be, you know...Windows apps. Unfortunately for me, Microsoft has been trying to add web apps that look like Windows apps instead. For a while, the Copilot app was a web app until Microsoft made it native.