You installed a three-node Wi-Fi 7 mesh system into your home. You might find that your phone shows four bars in every corner of your house, and you feel like the problem has finally been solved. But then get a little bit deeper into it, and you find that your Zoom calls still drop, the UK streams still buffer, and it just feels like your device is pinging you "no internet connection available" over and over again.

You've just finished a high-end build with an RTX 50 series GPU and a 360 mm all-in-one cooler. You should be expecting ice-cold temps, but for some reason your CPU is hitting 85°C at idle. What have you actually done wrong here? You might automatically think that the culprit is a bad thermal paste application or a faulty pump, but in reality it's a single fan fighting against the rest of the system.

The mobile chip market is a competitive one, and there's such little room for a chip to be a poor offering. AMD's Krackan Point refresh, Gorgon Point, is stuck in a bit of a no-mans-land. Zen 6 isn't ready, and the Ryzen AI 300 chips were a bit underserved, so taking a second swing using the same architecture makes sense. The execution, however, doesn't.

Way back in the DS days, Nintendo decided to stop selling to Amazon. During a recent lecture at NYU, former Nintendo of America President Reggie Fils-Aimé said it was because Amazon was seeking preferential treatment that would have hurt its relationship with other retailers, and potentially broken the law. The two sides have since made amends, and you can buy a Switch 2 through Amazon. But for a long time, Nintendo consoles had been largely unavailable on the site. In the 2000s, Amazon aggressively expanded beyond books and tried to undercut everyone on price. According to Fils-Aimé, Amazon wanted to undercut even Walmart and was looking …Read the full story at The Verge.

Frame generation has always had a poor reputation among serious gamers, and rightfully so, largely because Nvidia presents it as a feature that fixes poor performance. Yes, it does significantly improve frame rates as Nvidia and AMD claim, but smooth performance isn't just about pushing a higher number. Your frame time consistency, input latency, and how responsive the game actually feels matter just as much, and frame generation doesn't improve any of that.

With an abundance of AI assistants out there to try, it's natural to want to figure out which ones you need and which ones you don't. Some AI tools are so good that they give their paid competitors a run for their money, while others perform so poorly that I won't even bother with the free version.

We've always joked about how powerful smartphones are becoming, with modern flagships rocking more RAM than desktop PCs. Even budget-friendly smartphones are incredibly powerful compared to previous-gen options.

Having attempted everything from running Hackintosh instances inside virtual machines to running hypervisors within virtualization environments, I’m no stranger to wacky home lab projects. Heck, I’ve tried running Windows 11 as a VM across a bunch of Proxmox nodes, with each experiment teaching me new tweaks to turn a mere virtual machine into something that can run everyday tasks.

It is emphasized repeatedly online that unlocking the full performance of your rig relies on how optimally you set your BIOS toggles. That part is true. However, what most guides tend to miss is how deeply confounding those settings can be.

Most people use ChatGPT as a high-speed Google replacement, and for a long time, I was one of them. I spent months fighting with generic responses, convinced that the AI revolution was more hype than substance.

OpenAI's Codex, as evident by the name, is a tool that's primarily built for... developers. It's designed to write code, fix bugs, review pull requests, help you build tools and automations, and handle the kind of repetitive engineering work that eats into deep focus time. It competes with tools like anti, Google's AI Studio and Antigravity, OpenCode, and others.

Linux has never been so good. The Steam Deck put a polished Linux gaming handheld in millions of living rooms. Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Bazzite and Fedora have never been easier to install and live with. There's Zorin OS for Windows users who don't want to suffer the whiplash of a transition. And yet, for all of that momentum, there remain pockets of everyday computing where Microsoft's OS decisively wins.