I don't think I could do the kind of athletics Link demonstrates in Breath of the Wild. I don't even mean the rock-climbing bits; I think I'd be reduced to a paste the first time I'd have to fight off three bokoblins at once. That's why I instead stay at home and do all of my heroic deeds on the other side of a monitor. Just not built for that life.

It can be disappointing to realize that your high-end SSD, despite its impressive spec sheet, isn't delivering the snappy storage experience that the marketing numbers promised you. The benchmarks seem off, your file transfers drag, and you feel the sluggishness overcome your system, and you can't help but wonder why.

When Ayaneo released the Pocket DMG, it looked like a real winner. Unfortuantely, when the $449 price tag revealed itself, people suddenly got cold feet about purchasing one. While the Pocket DMG had some nice hardware on it, paying that amount of money for a retro handheld console put a lot of people off.

I work with a lot of images. Every story I write receives nine or ten images at minimum, and I keep those for a long time after publication, just in case tweaks need to be made. As you might imagine, my Photos folder can become a bit unwieldy. For editing, the majority of the time, I just use Paint. I rarely need more advanced features. But despite the improvements in Paint — and it has definitely gotten better over the years — it still poses numerous small annoyances that I'd prefer to avoid.

You know, I really love what Cyberpunk 2077 did for the genre as a whole, but there is a small part of me that craves that late 20th-century style. You know, the old Shadowrun systems where things still had that touch of 80s and 90s culture with a dash of futuristic daydreaming.

Contrary to popular belief, you don’t need a powerful Xeon system for DIY projects. Sure, certain server tools favor overpowered hardware, but there are just as many platforms that work well on budget-friendly consumer-tier systems. Take Proxmox, for example. Capable of running on bulky enterprise-grade hardware, potato laptops, and everything in between, it’s perfect for reviving low-end hardware as home server nodes.

Snipping Tool, the built-in Windows utility for capturing screenshots, has improved massively over the past few years, especially on Windows 11, but the Snipping Tool is still far from perfect. As someone who regularly captures, annotates, and edits screenshots, I still can't fully rely on it, no matter how much I streamline my workflow to favor Snipping Tool. I agree, it's dependable, integrates well with the operating system, and supports features like video recording and text extraction, but it still feels outdated compared to third-party tools.

2025 was a good year for horror games. Some were great, even. I got the chance to review and enjoy more than a few of them, whether they came from big-budget studios or indie devs. But now that the year is coming to an end, a realization hits me harder than any scripted jump scare this year: modern AAA horror has a setting problem.

When it comes to reliability testing my internet connection, I'm guilty of following the same steps as pretty much everyone else. I ran speed tests. Head on over to Speedtest.net or maybe fast.com, check the download numbers, upload numbers, and the latency. Nothing much else to it. If the numbers look good, things should be alright. But sometimes even that doesn't fix the inherent slowness of how devices on your network are interacting with the broader internet. And if you're not clued into the nitty-gritty of networking and the internet, it's safe to assume that you'll start blaming everything from the Wi-Fi router to the device you are using. The thing is, speed tests aren't the be-all and end-all of internet quality monitoring.

I'm not the best at remembering to back up my home lab, mainly because it doesn't tend to stay in one piece long enough. But I've been trying to work more automation into things, so that spinning up containers and VMs is auto, and I can focus on the things I want to do with them.

Social media is already a one-stop shop for me to read news and interact with people. Over time, I realized I had become a social media addict rather than someone who just wanted to read the news. My trade for convenience had a significant impact on my productivity. Though the intent is to read news, I end up dealing with other noise, distractions, and annoyances.

The Google Photos Memories feature will be exclusive to Samsung for six months. Google Photos will finally be available on TVs next year, starting with an upcoming integration for Samsung TVs. Samsung announced that the planned integration will "seamlessly bring the photos people capture on their phones to Samsung TVs, where they can appear in a larger, cinematic format," and that it wants Google Photos to be "deeply woven into the TV experience."There currently isn't a native TV app for Google Photos, even on the company's own Google TV platform, though Samsung's announcement doesn't specify that this new integration will be launching as a dedicated app. Samsung says it's first aiming to bring a Memories feature that …Read the full story at The Verge.