Obsidian has been my main productivity app for months, but I decided to try replacing it with open-source tools to see whether it was really the best option. For a while, some of the apps worked fine, but in the end, I found myself coming back to Obsidian. It fulfills a variety of different purposes all in one application, and the centralized database of knowledge makes it even better. Obsidian might be a closed-source app, but many of its plugins are open-source, and it offers a variety of other open-source benefits.

Samsung's Odyssey series monitors have always had a pretty great reputation, which makes them a pretty good choice if you're looking for something new. And if you're looking for something new, we can easily recommend Samsung's G91SD model, which features a 49-inch ultrawide OLED panel, that's now on sale for a pretty good price.

When people talk about “rescuing” a PC, they usually mean one of two things: sometimes it’s a machine that won’t boot anymore due to corrupt updates, broken bootloaders, or a dying drive standing between you and your data. Other times, the PC still technically works, but it’s slow, abandoned, or headed for the recycling pile because its operating system has outlived its usefulness.

Technology is meant to become obsolete sooner or later. It has been the same story for storage media as we see newer, faster, and more efficient technologies replace the ones that came before. That said, some storage types continue to cling on even after their replacements have been on the market for years. They remain relevant for specific use cases or niche projects, defying time as well as conventional wisdom. We might all love our NVMe SSDs, Blu-ray discs, and external hard drives, but it's still impossible to break all ties with the storage devices we grew up with. And no, it's not just nostalgia that's keeping them alive.

Good Old Games (GOG) is leaving CD Projekt, the company that launched the game preservation-focused PC game store back in 2008.

In just the past couple years, the art TV category that's been dominated by Samsung's The Frame has seen growth, with additions from both TCL and Hisense. Now LG has announced its own entry, the LG Gallery TV. The TV will leverage the Gallery+ service that LG released earlier this year, which includes thousands of display visuals ranging from pieces of art to cinematic images to gaming scenes. Much like Samsung's Art Store, Gallery+ has a limited free option, but its full capability requires a subscription.The new Gallery TV shouldn't be confused with the G Series OLED TVs, like the LG G5, even though the G Series used to be called the Gal …Read the full story at The Verge.

Sony's successor to the PlayStation 6 and whatever Microsoft's next Xbox ends up being called, could be delayed due to the ongoing RAM scarcity and price increase situation.

I'm sure you've encountered a point when moving files to a solid-state drive (SSD) suddenly grinds to an unexpected halt, and wondered what was causing this to take place. After all, the manufacturer likely promised considerably higher speeds for the SSD, which lured you into a false sense of hope with drive performance. The reasons for these slowdowns can vary depending on the SSD and wider system it's connected to, but for cheaper flash storage, it can be caused by the SLC cache. This can cause transfer speeds grind to a crawl, sometimes reaching figures you'd typically see with hard drives.

I have a love-hate relationship with the native Windows Photos app. It feels like an AI-powered oversimplification designed for a touch-first world that I don't live in. It also hides the file structure behind a clumsy timeline view and struggles to render high-resolution images without a noticeable stutter. For power users who manage thousands of assets, the native tool feels like a handicap. I can tolerate it if Photos is still bound to some obscure image format, and I open an image or two in a hurry. I've also found that Photos forces me to spin up a full-fledged editing suite like Photoshop for the simplest editing besides cropping and rotation.

Raspberry Pi has a huge collection of SBCs, each surpassing the older models. The Raspberry Pi 5 is the newest kid on the block, while the Pi Zero 2W is the latest in the Zero lineup. There's a high chance that if you love SBCs and building DIY projects, you might have collected several models. Some of them still have a couple or a few more years of official support, but they might not work great with the latest OS and self-hosted tools.

Anybody who grew up in the 90s knows of the significant impact that The Simpsons had on pop culture. It's viewed as one of the greatest animated television shows of the decade, and has continued producing new episodes for television even now. Within the show's phenomenal run, multiple video games featuring many fan-favorite characters from the town of Springfield have been released on a variety of consoles. Whether in the arcades or on home game consoles, people just couldn't get enough of the goofy and clever comedy that The Simpsons had to offer its fans.

My router handles browsing, media streaming, and basic home networking without breaking a sweat. Once I started expanding my smart home, self-hosting services, tightening firewall rules, and segmenting network traffic, it became the weakest link in my growing home lab.