2025-10-09 19:00:18
PCIe bifurcation has firmly planted itself as a necessary technology in consumer PC hardware. At its simplest, it’s just the process of dividing the lanes from a single PCIe slot into multiple smaller groups. For instance, you can take a full x16 slot and split it into four x4 slots, allowing for multiple devices to share that same set of lanes.
2025-10-09 18:00:18
The Raspberry Pi was a truly exciting computing device for me during my college years. It could run a full-fledged modified desktop and serve a crucial role in small IoT devices. However, I didn’t like the idea of pairing it with a breadboard, connecting wires, figuring out resistors, voltage, and the electronic aspects of it. I preferred software-focused projects that could leverage the available ports and hardware to build something purposeful with a Raspberry Pi and another gadget or device.
2025-10-09 17:01:19
The obsession with building a perfect second brain has made apps like Obsidian quite popular; however, the sheer complexity and the constant need for community plugins to unlock functionality can create more friction than flow.
2025-10-09 13:10:53
As a kid, there was one game I loved playing on my friend's PC. It was called Descent, and it did something that games these days still very rarely do. It utilized a "6DOF" (six degrees of freedom) control scheme, allowing you to pilot a spaceship and navigate around a base infested with rogue drones. Because gravity isn't a factor in deep space, there was rarely a clear distinction between "up" and "down," which made the tunneled levels feel particularly labyrinthine as you tried to figure out which way you were going.
2025-10-09 12:31:51
I'll admit it; I lose stuff all the time. Growing up, I wished I had some way of making my lost items beep at me, so I could find them more easily. Alas, the technology wasn't available at the time (and it was long before AirTags were introduced), so I had to resort to the tried-and-true method of digging under pillows and beneath chairs until I found it.
2025-10-09 10:43:20
Do you ever have these weird moments where you want to rewatch advertisements that you saw on TV as a kid? I have. Not the actual TV shows, mind; the adverts that fill the time between them, the stuff that was meant to be the filler between the actual entertainment. For some reason, watching the ads specifically gives me a ton more nostalgia than the actual shows.
