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Valve will finally count to three. Have you heard the news? According to a renowned leaker, a new Half-Life project is currently undergoing friends and family testing over at Valve. People use the term “Half-Life 3” to refer to this game, but there’s no absolute 100% guarantee that it’s actually Half-Life 3. After all, we…

U Joplin is a popular open-source note-taking app loved by privacy-minded folks and productivity gurus. It’s easy to sync your notes across devices, but if you want to keep your data totally safe and in your hands, you can set up your own Joplin server. Go to Source

A must-have for the monitor aficionado. Personally, I find it hard to use a PC unless it has two monitors. It’s just nice to have something on the side while I’m working away on the main monitor. Some people have a need for five monitors, and I can’t even wrap my head around how I’d…

How are you going to let a newcomer show you up on their second kick at the can? For years now, the king of the graphics card castle has been obvious. NVIDIA is and continues to be the gold standard for graphics cards, and AMD’s Radeon cards could just never quite stack up. The bad…

Your home server’s data isn’t backed up unless you have an offsite storage solution. If you’re running a home server, you probably already have your devices backing up their data to your storage pools. But that’s not the only place you should be storing backups, as the 3-2-1 backup rule means you should have one…

Great saving on the 1TB model with heatsink, as it drops to $100 This is one of the best SSDs that you can buy right now. Not only are you getting a proven track record and reliability that comes with the Samsung name, but this M.2 SSD offers excellent performance for a Gen 4 drive…

After using Windows my whole life, the Mac Mini turned me into an Apple fan. Can Microsoft ever turn things around? Until last November, Windows was all I ever used on my computers. I’ve been a Windows user my entire life, and while I very briefly dabbled in Linux, I had no interest in staying…

By using Python libraries in Excel, you can automate tasks, build dashboards, and more. While Excel is a powerful tool for data management and analysis, it often feels limited when dealing with complex data transformations, large datasets, and repetitive tasks. Here is where Python comes into play. By integrating Python libraries into your workflow, you…