Usually, games never breach the player counts they attained at launch. Updates and DLCs can bump the number up again, but usually, the people who have already shown interest in the game have bought it. We rarely see a game exceed the player count it got at launch, and it's even rarer for games that released a decade ago.

HDR on Windows has never really been consistent. It tends to vary a lot depending on your monitor, the game you're playing, and sometimes even your GPU drivers. Even when everything is on point, Windows itself can still be unpredictable, which makes HDR on PC feel like an afterthought at best. And if that wasn't enough, if you're someone who loves using frame generation despite all the hate it gets, it can also cause issues with the native HDR implementation in some titles. I experienced this very recently while playing 007 First Light.

Keeping your GPU cool while it crunches through the most graphically intense games out there has really evolved over the decades. Manufacturers began adding more and more fans until there was no more room, and when people needed more, we started adding entire closed water cooling systems just to keep our red-hot hardware at a suitable running temperature.

A CLAUDE.md file is one of the best ways to make Claude Code listen to you. For the uninitiated, it's a Markdown file in the project's root directory that serves as a standing instruction manual or onboarding brief for Claude Code.

Docker started as a convenient way for me to test apps without cluttering my system, but it gradually became the foundation of my entire developer workflow. Instead of installing every database, service, dashboard, and utility directly on my machine, I now run most of them inside containers that I can launch, update, and remove in minutes.

FreeBSD 15 does not feel designed to win a screenshot contest, and honestly, that’s part of why it caught my attention. It is not trying to look futuristic, reinvent app management, or turn every system update into a tiny product launch. It feels calm, deliberate, and almost stubborn about what it wants to be good at. After spending so much time around operating systems that keep trying to sell me on platforms, experiences, and ecosystems, that restraint feels surprisingly nice.

I used to think that when gathering sources for a project, I had no choice but to gather them one by one. That way, I could see each and every source I was adding. However, after testing how NotebookLM gathered the sources for me, I realized I had been making the research process harder than it needed to be. NotebookLM’s Source Discovery feature suggested sources I probably would not have found on my own.

The Windows taskbar is in the perfect position to serve as a productivity hub, yet it feels criminally underutilized. The Start Menu feels like a way for Microsoft to push its own apps, the widgets don't feel like much more than distractions, and I still manage to click the wrong thing when looking for items in my system tray.

The Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon has been the crown jewel of business laptops for years, and with the latest Gen 14 iteration, that hasn't changed.

The more I get into self-hosting apps, the more I worry about things like uptime, and server health, and everything that comes with being a sysadmin. My home lab has grown over the years, with several servers now humming along with Proxmox loaded with LXCs and VMs, and a big network rack to have even more fun with concepts.

The world of Linux kernel development never sleeps. Linux 7.1 has only just been released, and people are already getting code added to Linux 7.2's build. Fortunately, because open-source software's development tends to be, you know, open, we can see all the changes Linus Torvalds is accepting to the Linux 7.2 kernel as they happen.

Bob Starr was delighted with his vibe-coded website. "Boomberg" showed how much US tax money is going to tech companies, and Starr launched it online immediately after making it. It wasn't until months after the site went live that he realized there was a problem: a hidden SQL injection risk. It could've left the site open for an attacker to read or alter data they shouldn't have access to. "It was just a glaring oversight on my part. It was a complete blindspot in my state of learning this new technology and understanding it, and I'm sure there are others making the same mistake," said Starr, a project manager in the tech sector."It was …Read the full story at The Verge.