Lately, I’ve been shopping for a new motherboard platform to build a new daily driver desktop PC, specifically AMD X870E chipset-based. To my shock and dismay, most motherboards with that chipset only had two or three PCIe slots since many of the other PCIe lanes have been allocated for M.2 NVMe slots instead; it seems […]
I recently learned that Intel’s latest generation desktop CPUs (Codename Arrow Lake) will be all fabricated with TSMC instead of its own fabs. It’s quite disappointing that Intel could not fabricate the most advanced chips in volume for this generation of desktop chips despite being the largest recipient of subsidies from the Chip’s and Science […]
Windows Chocolatey As of this writing, Chocolatey doesn’t have a build-in cache cleaner so the best way is to install the unofficial Choco Cleaner which creates a Windows Scheduled Task to run Choco-Cleaner.ps1 every Sunday at 11:00 PM. macOS Homebrew Linux Flatpak Linux Snap Ubuntu APT Arch/Manjaro Pacman
I had quite a few Windows 7 installation discs that I was about to throw away, but it then hit me that there would be some buyers and/or collectors who were into this stuff on eBay. It surprised me that within three days, I sold all five of my Windows 7 discs which were four […]
The brother of one of my old friends tasked me to liquidate 14 years worth of IT equipment for his company. The range of IT equipment ranged from network appliances, monitors, laptops, cables, adapters, etc. I used Craig’s List, OfferUp, eBay, and Amazon marketplace to offload the items. Some notable items that were given to […]
This was a small project to remedy some of my boredom due to the Covid-19 lockdown/shelter-in-place order in Washington which started on March 23, 2020. Compared to my previous computer builds, I took the aesthetic details up a notch with some magnetic blue LED strips. I had a Samsung SSD, MSI video card, and an […]
This was an iBuypower gaming PC that I saw for sale at the Covington Walmart today and I thought it was terrible value overall. For that price range, the gaming PC had only two RAM slots instead of four which prevents expanding RAM capacity without taking the current ones and replacing them with higher capacity […]
I was at the Walmart in Covington today and was checking their electronics section and spotted a camo-skinned laptop by HP. Judging from the specs and price, it wasn’t very high quality or rugged/military-grade. There were no dust-proof or water-resistant certifications on the specs and I didn’t expect it to have them at that very […]
I came to realize recently that Google products and services had a tremendous impact on my daily life in so many levels from personal to work use resulting in me pondering a bit about a life without Google. Even one of the fonts of this website that you’re viewing now – “Lato“, is hosted from […]