Halo's Two Styles of Storytelling
Halo is well regarded as one of the best and most successful videogame franchises of all time. However, there seems to be a split in the...
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Mar 29, 20214 min read
Intel's New 11th Gen Rocket Lake i7 and i9 (11700K and 11900K) Differences
Intel's newest 11th generation CPU's have just hit the market, and with that the relatively new 'i9' nomenclature is even harder to...
Feb 22, 20219 min read
Mine Cryptocurrency (Ethereum) On A Budget in 2021
Crypto mining is booming in 2021, and for lots of people that may be interested, they might feel like they missed the boat. I'm here to...
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...
Feb 10, 20211 min read
Configure Your Sony X950H For All Xbox Series X TV Details 'Green Checkmarks'
Out of the box, the Sony X950H is really not set up well for your Xbox. When you check 'General 4K TV details' in settings, you might be...
Feb 9, 20213 min read
Fix Input Lag On Sony X950H For Xbox Series X With a Home Theater System (Z9F)
So I’ve had an X950H 85" since the Summer of 2020 and now have it hooked up to my Switch and Xbox Series X. I was atrocious playing my...
Feb 7, 20218 min read
Run Multiple IP Ranges on Your HOME Network
So you want to run a secondary IP range (subnet) at home. This really shouldn't be hard, right? If you've ever been in IT, you've noticed...
Jan 31, 20213 min read
SMB Cisco SG350 Switch VLAN Mode Types
Small-Medium Business (SMB) and home network gear have stripped down feature sets when compared against enterprise level equipment for a...
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...
Jan 3, 20216 min read
Put Custom Firmware (Atmosphere) and Games On Your Nintendo Switch- 11.0.1+
NOTE: Not all Switches are *easily* moddable, you'll have to find an unpatched model on eBay if you want to go the reliable route (which...
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 26, 20202 min read
GameGear CleanPower USB-C Mod
If you love retro gaming on your classic handheld but wish you could play without batteries or that massive AC adapter, have I got a...
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...
Dec 4, 20206 min read
Build a VMware vSphere 7 Cluster on Raspberry Pi 4
Have you been curious about running a hypervisor on your Pi or any ARM-based device before? Or just want something that can exhaust the...
Nov 23, 20205 min read
Building an Enterprise-Level Home Lab (Without the Enterprise Rack Gear)
Over the decades, enthusiastic and motivated IT professionals from all over have gone to lengths to try and create environments with the...
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...
Sep 13, 20209 min read
Raspberry Pi 4 Heatsink Face-Off
When the Raspberry Pi 4 came out, I waited for a little while for the kinks to be worked out and developer support to bolster up. One of...
Sep 1, 20204 min read
Putting Ubuntu 20.10 On the Raspberry Pi 4
If you've ever wanted to put a full-fledge, brand new (aka 20.10, the newest of the new) Ubuntu Linux desktop on your Pi, this is the...
Aug 28, 20205 min read
Build a Kali Chromebook
Most of us who are interested in cybersecurity and hacking at home have probably gone through a good number of iterations of tech (and...
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