Introduction: Why I Stopped Paying for Cloud Storage We live in an era where we generate gigabytes of data daily—photos, 4K videos, and project backups. For years, I relied on Google Drive and Dropbox. But recently, two things hit me: the recurring monthly subscription costs were adding up, and the privacy concerns were nagging at … Read more
The Incident Log: Christmas Came Early (And It Lasts 3 Days) For the last decade, smartphone battery life has been a lie. Manufacturers promised us “All Day Battery,” but what they meant was “All Day… if you don’t touch it too much.” We have been stuck in the “5,000mAh Trap.” Processors got faster, screens got … Read more
I have built hundreds of PCs in this lab over the last decade. Every single one of them had the same recognizable feature next to the CPU socket: those two (or four) long, vertical DIMM slots waiting for “sticks” of RAM. Yesterday, a new motherboard arrived for our CES 2026 prep bench, and it stopped … Read more
I was in the middle of cleaning the test bench yesterday, prepping it for the massive “January Upgrade” we were all planning. Like many of you, I had my eBay draft ready to sell my lab’s RTX 4090, expecting to use that cash for the shiny new RTX 5090 launching at CES 2026 in just … Read more