It's Spooktober again, and with Halloween just a couple of weeks out, now is the best time to get your horror game library growing again. Still, what's the point of a good horror game if you can't enjoy it with your friends? After all, the most dire of situations also become insanely hilarious if you've got some friends along, and there's just nothing more rewarding than exploring a haunted setting and hearing your friend scream out from the other end of the hall.

When putting together your next single-board computer project, you're probably tempted to get one of the newest SD cards with the fastest speeds. After all, a new Pi project deserves quality components. However, before you purchase that ultra-high-speed SD card, you may want to take a closer look at your Raspberry Pi's specs.

Every PC enthusiast has heard the phrase "silicon lottery" tossed around hardware circles, usually followed up by complaints of bad overclocking headroom, or tall tales of pushing far past voltage limits of a particular chip. But what exactly does it mean?

YouTube is packed with valuable tutorial videos, but I've always wanted a way to organize them in my own private learning space, a kind of personal classroom. Somewhere that allows me to have more control over what I watch, how I watch it, and, more importantly, reduces distractions from the internet.

When something feels off with our PCs, most of us go straight for the usual suspects. You open Task Manager, glance at the CPU and memory graphs, maybe fire up HWiNFO or MSI Afterburner, and start guessing from there. But what if the culprit isn’t obvious?

Recently, I've talked about a couple of solutions that let you run Windows apps on Linux, including WinApps and WinBoat for virtualization, and Wine for real-time translation. Solutions like WinBoat and WinApps are kind of like the Windows Subsystem for Linux, so you may think there's no reason to make something like WinBoat for Windows. But you'd be wrong.

For years, my Raspberry Pi cluster powered nearly everything in my home lab. It began as an experiment in distributed computing, something I could tinker with and learn from. Each small board carried its share of the load, and I enjoyed seeing them work together. The soft hum of fans and the glow of LEDs made it feel like a miniature data center. Over time, however, the routine of maintaining multiple systems began to feel more like a burden than a hobby.

You'd think the most impactful storage upgrade I ever made would be the transition from hard drives to an SSD. While switching to a SATA SSD for the first time was game-changing, and getting my first NVMe SSD was great, the increased speed and responsiveness became stale in a few months. Recently, when I replaced all of my PC's storage, the best decision I made was adding a 4TB hard drive to the mix. This expansion turned out to be the best upgrade I ever made to my PC's storage in years.

Obsidian is a wonderful tool for creating and publishing websites, especially with the $8-per-month Obsidian Publish subscription. That's a low cost to host a website, especially compared to other services like GoDaddy or Bluehost, which can charge $20 or more just for the domain, much less the hosting costs. Obsidian Publish also integrates Obsidian's best features into every site, such as hover previews, graph view, and more.

Episodic video games aren't for everyone, are they? There's something beautifully cruel about them, because they hook you, get you involved and committed, and then... they make you wait. Sometimes it's weeks, sometimes it's months, and a surprising number of times, it becomes years. That "Next Episode Coming Soon" screen is hard to digest.

We have to say, we're fairly impressed with the direction mini PCs have taken over the past year, reaching higher and higher with each new release. GMKtec is a fairly well-known brand, offering powerful mini PCs built for more intensive tasks like gaming. Although there are different stages of what the brand offers, the Evo-X2 AI mini PC has to be one of its top models, delivering impressive power in a compact size.

Network-Attached Storage servers are some of the most useful devices you can add to your setup, regardless of whether you’re a casual user on the hunt for a file-sharing server or a hardcore privacy enthusiast looking to get rid of intrusive cloud platforms. If you’re as much of a data hoarder as I am, you’ll love the superior file archival, centralized storage, and easy recovery options offered by NAS rigs.