YouTube is no doubt the king of video content platforms and has been internet users' go-to entertainment destination for around a couple of decades. It also allows you to upload, store, and keep your videos private or share them with limited users. But it's not always the best place for every kind of video. At times, I want to store, organize, and share videos without tossing them onto Google's data-hungry servers.

USB-to-Ethernet adapters often seem like an easy fix. They are cheap, portable, and promise to turn a device without a dedicated Ethernet port into something more capable. For laptops, tablets, or even single-board computers, that sounds like a simple solution. In practice, though, the adapters tend to be far less reliable.

NAS devices come in all kinds of shapes and sizes, from the basic two-bay NAS to the more extravagant eight-bay options. With that comes a range of other hardware too, like the CPU, RAM, and flash storage. Recently, Ugreen launched the DH4300 Plus outside of China, and it's a pretty tiny four-bay NAS. Here's the interesting part, though: it runs on Arm. Specifically, it has a Rockchip RK3588 with 8GB of soldered LPDDR4X RAM, and 32GB of on-board soldered eMMC storage.

Pretty much every GUI operating system ships with a utility to help you browse your directories, files, and documents. Windows, for example, has a decent File Explorer that can get the job done for the average Joe. If you want more facilities, you can try arming your PC with Total Commander, OneCommander, Directory Opus, and a host of other cool file managers.

Linux is a slippery slope for new users, albeit one of the most rewarding. I'll be transparent upfront that I recently started exploring this fascinating world of distros on an older computer, while Windows remains my daily driver; however, the sheer freedom is addictive. However, sampling desktop environments like a kid in a candy store, toying with GNOME on Fedora or a tiling window manager on Arch, quickly brings the realization that one chore is repeated no matter the distro.

The handheld gaming scene has continued to grow in strength over the past few years. Ever since the Steam Deck changed how we play our PC titles, other companies have taken their shots at making the perfect portable pal, and there are a ton of excellent Steam Deck alternatives out there for you to try out. You can pick out a budget-oriented model or splash out on a deluxe version, then equip it with either Windows 11 or SteamOS. Life's pretty good for gamers on the go.

You may have dreaded watching the progress bar crawl as you share huge files from your NAS to your computer. You may have wondered if there was a faster way besides using SMB or NFS. There is, but not a straightforward one. Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) can deliver higher transfer speeds with low latency, provided you configure it correctly.

Have you ever given a Far Cry game a try before? If you haven't, they're usually open-world FPS games where you're smack-dab in the middle of something terrible going on. You're usually fighting your way to try to escape whatever predicament you're in, and they're a ton of fun.

While it seems like a foregone conclusion that there will be a foldable iPhone, possibly late next year, there hasn’t been much info about what it would look like. In the latest installment of his Power On newsletter Mark Gurman says he’s being told it will look more or less like two iPhone Airs stuck together. That means it should be pretty thin, though potentially thicker than a Pixel 10 Pro Fold (10.8mm) and Galaxy Z Fold7 (8.9mm) since an iPhone Air comes in at 5.6mm thick. Though Ming-Chi Kuo’s sources suggest the foldable will be quite a bit thinner when unfolded, possibly as little as 4.5mm. Unfortunately, Gurman also expects the foldable iPhone to cost more than the Pixel Fold, starting at at least $2,000, possibly more. One benefit of basing the foldable on the iPhone Air’s design is durability. While foldables have improved a lot over the years, there are still concerns about how they can stand up to abuse. But Gurman says the iPhone fold will be made of titanium, just like the Air, which both JerryRigsEverything and iFixIt have found to be pretty tough. iFixIt also gave the iPhone Air a surprisingly decent repairability score of seven. If an iPhone fold could even get close to the same repairability score it would be a pretty big deal. Both the Pixel Fold and Z Fold7 earned repairability scores of three, meaning these phones that are far more fragile than your standard glass rectangle are also much harder to repair.

Web servers and game servers do not have a lot in common. Besides sometimes accessing web pages for a "message of the day" on a custom multiplayer server, or perhaps something like browsing the web in your Steam overlay, there isn't a lot that the two have in common. Despite that, YouTuber PortalRunner managed to not only host a complete web server within the Source game engine, but control it using in-game actions.

As per tradition, Microsoft is getting ready to release Windows 11 25H2 to the public. The company has released one of these "XXH2" updates annually for a while now, and they come in various shapes and sizes. For instance, Windows 11 24H2 introduced some interesting new features, while this year's update is shaping up to be a little calmer on the feature front.

The sheer number of distributions is one of the many factors that separate Linux from Windows and macOS. But if you thought Linux was the only operating system that ships with different flavors, you might want to turn your attention to the FreeBSD ecosystem. This alternative Unix-like OS is home to its own collection of distributions, ranging from the popular router-oriented pfSense and OPNsense to the more obscure (but just as useful) general-purpose distros like DragonFlyBSD and GhostBSD.