Network connectivity was established using a Mercusys Halo mesh system, which unified the lab’s diverse devices. A secondary router, repurposed as a switch, extended the network to a backup station in a separate location. While not aesthetically refined, this patchwork…
A massive quad Radeon GPU appeared online that appears to be the Radeon RX 470 with four GPU dies. We might have spotted the biggest PCIe GPU ever, and this prototype has some interesting details worth checking out. This is an…
If your home lab has outgrown a consumer router, the MikroTik RB5009 is a serious step up — without jumping to enterprise prices. This wired-only router is built for people who want stable routing, fast local transfers, and room to grow. Read…
Most Australians know roughly what they pay for petrol. Far fewer know what their computer costs to run. Yet for many households and home businesses, that old tower PC humming under the desk is a stubborn line on the electricity…
That hunk of plastic collecting dust in the basement might be more useful than you realized. Being around technology or computers for any extended period of time means that you've likely accumulated a decent amount of hardware over the years.
This post breaks down what the switch does, where it fits in a homelab build, and what you should think about before buying one. Gigabit ethernet is a bottleneck the moment you start moving large VM disk images, doing fast…
My previous article, "The Wiring Plan for Outlets and Switches an Electrical Engineer Thought Through for a Used Home Renovation," was thankfully selected as one of note's "Featured Articles of the Day," and it was read by more people than…
Voice of the Engineer Interim steps to the end destination are often a wise policy, economically if for no other reason. And, it turns out, non-bleeding-edge gear can be made wiser in the process, too. As recently mentioned, I shortly…
Apple’s new entry Mac shipped on 22 September, and the first methodical numbers came from a community benchmark of a 32 GB Mac mini M6: LM Studio, the median of three runs, an English-prose prompt, and the raw JSON published alongside the script.
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