Compared to OmniOS and TrueNAS Scale, Proxmox has a fairly straightforward UI, and you can get accustomed to its quirks after reading its massive documentation. That said, Proxmox tends to hide certain advanced settings behind a barrage of menus, which can be annoying to navigate when you’re just starting out. Likewise, certain features can only be enabled after executing a stream of commands inside your PVE node’s Shell interface.

Do you have a Pi-hole set up at home? If not, they're a great way to monitor your network and prevent people from tracking you in ways you don't want them to. We love Pi-hole here at XDA, to the point where we even added two Pi-hole devices to the same network and noticed that it made things even better.

There's a lot to love about open-source software, so much so that I've been actively trying to use and support more open-source projects. I currently self-host services like Immich and Automatisch, which are only made possible by the open-source nature of the projects.

As cyber criminals get better and better hardware, we're seeing attacks that eclipse anything we've ever seen before. Direct Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks are getting especially nasty, and because they deliver a measurable amount of data during the attack, cybersecurity experts have been monitoring them and seeing if they break any records. Well, one attack just took the record for the biggest DDoS attack ever, and when put into perspective, it's a stunning amount of data being transferred to one IP address.

I've fallen in love with the Nintendo Switch 2, but that's largely despite what the console is capable of, not because of it. I'm primarily a PC gamer, so as much as I've loved tearing through Mario Kart World, the lack of my Steam library has been a sore point. I normally reach for my Steam Deck when playing PC games on the go, but the Switch 2 has highlighted a few missteps with the original design that I hope Valve addresses with the Steam Deck 2.

Once you start using Home Assistant at home, it’s hard not to go overboard. To make the most of it, I used Home Assistant to create a shared shopping list with my family to organize our home better. The idea was to bring some semblance to the chaos: random purchases to stock up the fridge or pantry, and other household items. From impulse buying to double-stocking, it was vexing for me to shop with my family.

If you're in the habit of making System Restore points on Windows 11, first of all, good on you for making backups. It's always good to have something to go back to if a drive goes wrong or a system file goes missing somehow, and if you set it up just right, you can have them automatically make themselves without you even needing to lift a finger.

Ray tracing made its way into gaming in 2018 with the launch of Nvidia's RTX 20-series graphics cards. At that time, the company made it seem revolutionary and promised a massive leap in visual fidelity. However, the first set of games with real-time ray tracing didn't impress me all that much because they all offered RT features selectively. It wasn't until Cyberpunk 2077's RT Overdrive update in 2023, which unlocked full ray tracing, that the improvements truly felt like a major leap.

One of my favorite things is taking something that's not at all affiliated with tabletop roleplaying games and finding a way to shove one into it. For instance, there was that time I played D&D with ChatGPT and had a lot of fun doing so.

Sometimes, you just have to 3D print something that you could otherwise buy, just for the sakes of building it. Even if the end process is a little more convoluted and takes more patience than simply finding the target product on Amazon and clicking the "Buy Now" button, you still learn a lot, get that satisfaction of making something, and have all the knowledge and equipment to repair it if something breaks.

Data collection without analysis is a waste of time. Analyzing your data is the only way to uncover fresh insights and get valuable information about the population your sample represents. Facts must be extracted after administering questionnaires, and researchers use various statistical tools and techniques when trying to do this. I prefer the easier route: SPSS. It is great for analyzing survey data, since it does not require coding or any special syntax. The point-and-click interface makes things easy; even researchers with no prior experience can quickly learn to analyze surveys with SPSS and bring out valuable facts from figures. Regardless of whether you've distributed a questionnaire virtually or physically, the same method could be employed to analyze respondents' data. In this guide, I'll show you a step-by-step process for analyzing answers obtained after administering survey questionnaires.

The release of the Nintendo Switch 2 has garnered a lot of attention among gamers looking for something new to dive into. While the console will be backward compatible with previous Nintendo Switch games, most people are excited about the new titles that will eventually come out for the new console. In addition, the Switch 2 feels like a better piece of hardware to play games on than its predecessor. But is this new Nintendo console something that gamers should be quick to get at the moment? The opening weeks of the Nintendo Switch 2 being available on the market show that gamers might be better off waiting a little while before getting it.