Anyone with pets knows the truth—clean floors don’t stay clean for long. Whether it’s tumbleweeds of shed fur, muddy paw prints after a rainy walk, or the occasional drool puddle near the food bowl, messes tend to pile up quickly. And for pet parents, that means cleaning becomes a near-daily chore.

When Microsoft slipped the first public preview of the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) into the Windows 10 Anniversary Update in August 2016, it mostly appeared to be a niche convenience aimed at developers who missed Bash and a Linux terminal. Few outside the Insider community guessed it would grow into a fully fledged, GPU-accelerated, GUI-capable Linux environment, maintained and delivered by Windows Updates and the Microsoft Store. Yet, nearly a decade later, WSL has grown and flourished into something more, and is arguably one of the biggest features added to Windows in a long time.

Windows is one of the oldest and most popular operating systems in the world, and it's no surprise that its popularity has led to multiple modified distributions that anyone can install and try out. It's never recommended to install a modified Windows ISO that you didn't modify yourself, as they can come prepackaged with just about anything. And oh, as you'll see, they really did come with anything. These are some of the weirdest Windows bootlegs I came across, and there are countless more out there, too.

There's one sentiment that's been consistent among PC gamers for nearly two years: 8GB graphics cards just don't cut it for a modern gaming rig. Games have gotten more demanding, and even at 1080p, there are titles that can fully saturate an 8GB frame buffer. Running out of VRAM doesn't always look the same, though.

The Mavic 4 Pro. | Image: DJIToday, DJI is officially announcing the Mavic 4 Pro, which could be the most versatile drone it's ever made. It's the first with a 360-degree rotating gimbal for footage that tilts, rolls, and offers true vertical filming. It's the first Mavic to offer 51 minutes of battery life, tied with the old Mini 3 and close to the longest flight times DJI has achieved. It's the first with a built-in 100-megapixel camera, which can also record 6K/60fps HDR, as part of its triple-camera array. Another important distinction: it's the first off-the-shelf DJI drone that won't launch in the United States. Today, it's going on sale in Canada, Mexico, and every other country where DJI sells drones, but the company tells The Verge it has no timeline on bringing it to the US. DJI won't honor its limited warranty if you cross the border to purchase one in Canada or Mexico. It's not even sending the drone to US-based technology reviewers - we don't have one, and we're not sure when we'll get one.Why is the Chinese drone maker doing this? The company says Trump's tariffs were among the top reasons it chose to abandon a US launch - and there's also the fact that, seven months later, US Customs is …Read the full story at The Verge.

Watching YouTube videos from the website on your PC can be a drag. You have pop-ups and distracting sections on the screen. There is clutter on the right side of the video with advertisements, related videos, other distracting content on the right, and comments under the video.

Hey, remember that one Recall feature that Microsoft pushed back again and again? We're coming up to a year since it was meant to come out, but after there was a huge issue with its security practice, we saw Recall delayed for further fixes.

TrueNAS Scale, Unraid, and OpenMediaVault stand at the apex of the Network-Attached Storage OS landscape, with each distribution featuring its own perks and quirks. However, they’re far from the only options at your disposal. Even without harnessing the power of virtualization, you can turn Proxmox into a reliable file-sharing server once you arm it with the right set of packages – and the same holds for Debian, Fedora, and other general-purpose distributions.

Once you've started self-hosting a few apps on a NAS, one of the next improvements to your home lab is adding a reverse proxy to access your services through one domain name. While many home labbers use Nginx as their reverse proxy solution, it was created as a webserver, and lacks some of the comforts of purpose-built code.

There is no other game series in the first-person shooter genre that is praised more than Doom. It is the gold standard against which all other FPS titles are compared, and the benchmark by which gaming setups are judged. When it comes to pure mayhem and adrenaline-pumping action, Doom is arguably one of the greatest video game series ever developed. Nobody can truly experience the fun of playing a first-person shooter without playing a Doom game. It's just that good and enticing to come back to many times over.

In a world increasingly dominated by a small handful of tech giants, many people are looking for ways to escape the grasp of big companies like Google and Microsoft. Recently, I've become one such person and began my self-hosting journey using a spare mini PC I had lying around. One of the many services I'm interested in replacing is Google Calendar, and perhaps unsurprisingly, there are quite a few options.

Gaming mice get all the glory when it comes to media coverage, but what if you want something simple, compact, and more importantly affordable? That's where the Lenovo 300 wireless mouse comes in, delivering all the above at a fantastic price. While its usual retail price is set at $17, you can now score a huge discount that knocks 53% off as it drops to just $8.