Witness the transformation of Windows 11 into a lean 9GB beast, but is it worth the brutal trade-offs?

This week on The Kettle, we mull over whether the Steam Deck is a canary in the coal mine for the future of hardware prices, and the effect of Blue Origin's blowout on NASA's Moon missions ...

This custom Wi-Fi router works off-grid with Starlink and can control my solar power station. Here's how I went about it.

Why mini PCs have completely replaced the Raspberry Pi for serious homelabs ...

Windows updates are usually quick as long as you have a stable internet connection. The monthly cumulative updates, which can be as large as 5GB, do not take more than 10 minutes to finish applying, ...

Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio. There are some oddities with the latest update for Windows 11, and that includes a series of reboots that may have you worrying that something's gone wrong ...

Microsoft released an out-of-band update to fix the March 2026 non-security preview update, which was pulled over the weekend due to installation issues. The optional cumulative update (KB5079391) was ...

If your Windows install is feeling creaky and you want to freshen up, or if you don't have Windows at all, the fastest way to fix things up is to simply do a clean install. Back up your important ...

Note: This is an early peek at a chapter from my next book, De-Enshittify Windows 11. This book will be available for purchase soon, hopefully by the end of February. –Paul When you buy a new PC or ...

It's officially time to let go. Windows 10 has been over as we know it for some time now, only for Windows 11 to have taken over. To finalize things even further, Microsoft ended support for the ...

What to Do When Your External Storage Drive Won't Show Up External hard drives back up your most important files, but what happens when they malfunction? Here's what to do if your device is not ...