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Search ArticlesA USB-C dongle unlocked audio quality my phone was hiding all along
Lossless audio is more accessible than ever, with streaming services like Spotify, Apple Music, Tidal, and Amazon Music Unlimited offering access with low-cost monthly subscription services. Reaping the benefits of high-fidelity recordings is still tricky. Play lossless files through lossy means and introduce compression or resampling, and you'd miss out on their added detail.
Windows Storage Spaces isn't the only way to combine drives — Linux has a surprisingly simple alternative
After years of using Windows, I assumed the trade-off of its Storage Spaces feature was universal. It usually entailed backing up everything on the required drives, wiping the drives, building a new pool, and then moving the files back to the drives. I was surprised when I used mergerfs on Linux and was able to pull in existing drives without touching any of the files already on them. The process required no formatting, no migration, and no starting over. It's become the only way I combine drives.
Nvidia’s cheapest GPUs are built on a very convenient illusion
On the surface, Nvidia’s newest lineup of budget-centric GPUs appears to offer a massive performance bump over the past two generations, at least on paper. Take a look at the fine print, and almost all of these benchmarks account for some rather heavy upscaling, often with frame generation enabled. It’s exactly this very convenient illusion that irks me to no end.
WireGuard was only half the answer, and this tool makes it complete
WireGuard has been the most useful addition to my home server, but it adds an unpleasant dimension when I try to grow my setup. Adding a third device usually involves a new key pair and a peer block, in addition to the back-and-forth of editing the configurations of every other device so that each knows the new one exists. The same process repeats when I add a fourth device.
Linux finally does HDR gaming right — here's the exact setup
HDR gaming has always been hit-or-miss on PCs. Part of this is due to Windows’ somewhat underwhelming implementation, which requires manual tuning to get things right. In the land of the penguin, though, things have progressed a lot more rapidly, and HDR finally works — for the most part. Linux can be complex, and support varies from desktop environment to window manager, but assuming you’re on KDE Plasma, here’s a super-easy way to get HDR up and running.
Slack started as a video game that nobody wanted to play
Somewhere in a Vancouver office in late 2012, a company was quietly dying. Tiny Speck had spent nearly four years and roughly $17 million building an online world set inside the minds of eleven sleeping giants, and almost nobody wanted to live there. The game was called Glitch, and you have probably never heard of it. What the team built to talk to each other while making it became one of the most recognizable products in modern office software.
My favorite Android 17 feature makes my Pixel much harder to break into
The stable release of Android 17 is ready for download on Google Pixel phones, and it'll soon make its way to more Android brands. There are a few exciting features, like App Bubbles, Screen Reactions, and a foldable gaming mode. However, the most important Android 17 upgrade is one you'd probably never notice. Google cut the maximum number of device passcode or password attempts on the lock screen from 1,800 guesses to just 20 tries — and it's a bigger deal than you may think.
This Windows memory tweak eliminated frame drops my GPU couldn't explain
For about a month, I was blaming my GPU for a problem it wasn't causing. While playing Baldur's Gate 3, I would experience 20 minutes of smooth sailing, followed by stuttering, then smooth sailing again. Looking through Afterburner, usage, temperatures, and VRAM looked normal. This made me start looking elsewhere. The real trigger turned out to be Windows' virtual memory behavior, and it takes less than five minutes to see if it applies to you.
4 simple software upgrades that made my old laptop feel productive again
Having a seven-year-old laptop is frustrating, especially when you have to run the same tools everyone uses today. From my fans spinning because I have a dozen tabs open to delays in apps like Word launching, this shows the laptop is built for a different era. However, before writing the machine off, I decided to swap out some software for lighter alternatives. I expected some improvement, but I never guessed it would make me this much more productive.
Don’t buy another HDMI cable until you know this QR code trick
It's easy to spend hundreds or thousands on TV, PC, or console upgrades without touching the most important link in the chain — your HDMI cable. While modern HDMI 2.1 devices support flagship features like 8K 60Hz, enhanced Audio Return Channel (eARC) lossless audio, and the HDMI Ethernet Channel (HEC), you won't be able to use them without a supported HDMI cable in the mix.