The Beauty and Disappointment of Multi-Gig Networking
A couple of years ago I published an article (Breaking the LAN Speed Barrier) outlining the procurement process, deployment requirements,...
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Aug 10, 20221 min read
Wild Pack of Alexas Asserting Dominance on Feeble Human
Behold the futuristic horror of going through an internet outage when you have about a dozen Alexa-based Echo devices in your house. On a...
Jul 28, 20225 min read
Steamdeck's Nonsensical Hypetrain
We live in the age of multi-gig wifi 6, multi-gig ethernet, multi-gig 5G and broadband to our homes, our Oculus’ can wirelessly stream...
May 11, 20223 min read
Tesla Turn Signals Part 2: The FIX for Software-Controlled Hardware
Since my last post on the awful mechanics of the Tesla turn signal stalk, I went all-out trying to solve the issue creatively since I...
Mar 20, 20225 min read
Tesla Turn Signals Part 1: The Curse of Software-Controlled Hardware
Update: for the fix for this issue, see my new Part 2 article that solves this problem once and for all. I recently traded my 2016...
Mar 13, 20226 min read
Ryan Reynolds Is Insufferable
It's a strange thing, reversing an overall opinion of someone or something almost on a dime, but that's where I'm at with Ryan Reynolds....
Aug 10, 20212 min read
Intel VS AMD: The Synthetic Competition That Everyone Buys In On
For the past few years, the hype around AMD "taking down" Intel has been very real. To this day, I have no idea how even some of the most...
Apr 5, 20214 min read
AI Assistants and Their Sugar Spike Evolutions
AI assistants have become commonly used throughout modern society, with a surprising number of demographics and age groups quickly...
Feb 11, 20216 min read
iRobot's Utter Failure Of a Flagship: The Roomba S9
The S9 was (and is) marketed as the first major, revolutionary design update in iRobot's long history of robot vacuum making. It could...
Jan 10, 20213 min read
Reasons to Mod Your Nintendo Switch
If you're like me (a 30-something techie with a love for new game tech/gfx breakthroughs and a FPS-focus on gaming), you may have been...
Dec 31, 20205 min read
USB 3.1 and Its Anti-Intuition Gatekeeping (+ Others like Displayport and DVI)
When it comes to the Universal Serial Bus standard, there seems to have been a massive cultural shift in leadership at the USB-IF (the...
Dec 13, 20202 min read
Folding@Home and Its Impact On COVID-19
I want to make the case for something I'm seriously dedicated to: Folding@Home. If you've ever mined cryptocurrency, or read about evil...
Oct 11, 20206 min read
Breaking the 1Gbps LAN Speed Barrier
We're finally overcoming the decades-old consumer LAN 1GbE bottleneck, with the help of Wifi 6 and 802.3bz (2.5/5Gb ethernet). No need to...
Sep 26, 20205 min read
The Case For the Wii U in 2020
Back when the Wii U was released, it was met with a lukewarm reception, and for good reason. The Wii U was a relatively substantial...
Aug 15, 20203 min read
The Fading Feature: Activity Lights
The way to find anything out when troubleshooting systems, is with information monitoring. And this is why the virtue of having systems...
May 6, 20201 min read
Macs for Coding...
I found the Mac to be a nice, isolated, clean environment to program in... but in all honesty, I've been trying to get into Mac use for...
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