Do you know what the biggest problem is regarding the original Switch? The internet is full of too much good advice as to what you should do with it after buying the Switch 2. People are saying you should donate it to a loved one, or sell it off, or keep it around as a spare, and they're all perfectly valid pieces of advice, and you should definitely heed them. But we don't have enough outrageous, downright terrible ideas for what you can do with a spare Switch. And we need those for...reasons, I guess.

During a recent PlayStation State of Play showcase, the Mortal Kombat: Legacy Kollection was revealed to be coming in 2025. The compilation of games from the earlier years of the Mortal Kombat series is planned for a release on PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch 2, Xbox Series consoles, and PC via Steam. The collection will bring together many of the classic arcade titles that people remember vividly from the 90s, along with a few other entries from the Mortal Kombat series. The developer Digital Eclipse is adding additional features, like rollback net code for online play, to give fans a meaty package of their favorite mature fighting game. But there's one glaring thing that the Mortal Kombat: Legacy Kollection needs to include in order to truly feel like a complete anthology of the series.

For the longest time, I resisted the call to upgrade my wired network. I didn't think I needed 10 GbE at home, so I trundled along with 2.5 GbE for the few wired devices in my network stack. And you know what, I was wrong. Faster wired connections were precisely what my network needed to perform better in all areas, including my Wi-Fi.

Before I got my home NAS, I completely relied on various cloud services for everything, from photo and video backups to storing work files and scanned documents. It was convenient and just worked without me needing to set up the server and do the heavy lifting. But that convenience came at a cost that I didn’t fully grasp until I decided to take back control and manage my own storage. While cloud storage is still a better choice for a lot of users — and is a part of my setup too — it’s now more about where your data lives and why it matters to bring it a little closer to home.

Managing a non-graphical user interface operating system like DietPi or Raspberry Pi OS Lite has its fair share of advantages. You can conserve system resources and allocate them to an app or service that uses them better. I converted my Raspberry Pi Zero 2W into a downloading device sometime back, which was wonderful. But I always miss the fluidity of managing files via a File Explorer app instead of using a terminal for everything. The terminal route isn't convenient for everyone, and creating files and folders or copying something from the SD card to other disks or vice versa is also a hassle.

If you run a website today, there’s a good chance that AI bots are trying to index and scrape your content. Cloudflare sees more than 50 billion AI crawler requests each day on its network. Many of these bots ignore standard “no crawl” rules and, without the site owner’s consent, siphon off content to train large language models. Blocking them outright often just tips them off, prompting them to change tactics.

The word bottleneck is enough to send shivers down the spines of PC gamers. And the worst kind of bottleneck is a GPU bottleneck, even though that's ideally what you want on a gaming PC. Most games are GPU-bound, so you want a situation where none of the other components are holding your GPU back. In some cases, though, a weaker or older GPU can actually bottleneck your PC, stopping you from getting the maximum performance your system is capable of. Here are the signs that you need a new GPU to eliminate a significant bottleneck.

During Apple’s WWDC keynote, when it introduced the new Liquid Glass design material for macOS Tahoe and all other Apple operating systems, it caught my attention right away. This isn’t just because it promises to be shiny and clean, but because it finally feels like the kind of translucent UI Microsoft dreamed about with Aero in Windows Vista. In this case, however, it’s fully realized. Vista introduced a lot of visual polish for its time with Aero, but the implementation was hindered by poor performance and incomplete execution. Liquid Glass, on the other hand, feels like it could finally be a vision that’s actually complete.

I am a Windows user through and through. However, I often dabble with Linux, and during my journey, I've experimented with several distributions. If you have ever done so, you know that there is a plethora of distributions to choose from.

Many of us are quick to point fingers at our graphics cards whenever we experience stuttering or frame rate drops while gaming. After all, GPUs do all the heavy lifting when it comes to graphically demanding workloads, so it makes sense why we often think it's the culprit. However, you could have a high-end GPU, like the RTX 5090 or 4090, and still face these issues because the rest of your hardware isn't on par with it.

It can be difficult choosing a monitor with so many different options available. Of course, if you want to maximize your screen real estate, then going with an ultrawide is going to be an excellent solution. This Samsung Odyssey G9 (G95SD) monitor manages to deliver everything that you'd want, with an impressive screen and jaw-dropping performance. And while its original retail price of $1,900 is absolutely shocking, you can now claim a steep $850 discount from Woot that brings it down to its best price yet at $1,050.

After getting inspired by my XDA colleagues, I started using Obsidian as my primary note-taking app on my computer. I used it to jot down my thoughts, ideas, links, photos, and other relevant bits. But typing long notes does get tiring at times, and I wish Obsidian had a native feature to convert voice notes to text. Before, I tried Apple’s Notes app to take and transcribe voice notes, but my experience was underwhelming. It all changed when I discovered the Whisper plugin for Obsidian. Since I started using the plugin, it has been a game-changer. I vehemently use it to take voice notes without worrying about when or how I will transcribe them all.