It's been a week since I wiped Windows 11 from my Lenovo Legion Go handheld and replaced it with the first official version of SteamOS for handhelds other than the Steam Deck.

As I write this, my own Switch 2 console is still in transit, but many luckier folks than I have had their hands on one for a few days now and the real facts and figures are coming out of the woodwork,

These days, it's pretty much a given that you need a sound bar or some other external audio system for a flat-panel TV, because TV speakers suck!

One of the biggest problems when it comes to treating internal organs is that, well, they're internal. Which means that either treatments have to be traumatically invasive, or medicine has to be pushed through our metabolic pathways, which isn't as efficient and can have unwanted side effects.

Star Trek: The Next Generation is my generation's Trek. It was and remains my favorite series in the franchise, and not too long ago I finally realized my dream of owning the full series remastered on Blu-ray.

I am not a frequent upgrader of my displays, and I have a tendency to keep them around. This means I have a situation where my newest screens tend to end up next to (or close by) my old ones.

SteamOS is having a moment, and if I were the folks working on Windows—the crown jewel of Microsoft—I'd be shaking in my boots right now.

Most of the popular social media platforms have an FYP or "For You Page" that shows you content based on—something? You'll notice that every time you open your social media app of choice it defaults to this feed. The name might be different, but the concept is the same.

I prefer buying physical movies, but due to a mix of rare sales and (most of the time) convenience, I have bought some digital movies on platforms like Apple TV. For now, these movies are safely in my cloud account, but over the last few years, I've been avoiding digital movie purchases, and recently I've decided to stop buying digital movies completely.

When video games came to smartphones, the gaming press and forums were filled with doomsayers, spelling the end of dedicated handheld systems. Products like the Nintendo 3DS and Sony PSP were the last of their kind, we were told. Why buy a handheld when you can just whip out the phone you already have?

If you have a Steam Deck, or you've installed SteamOS on another brand of handheld like the Lenovo Legion Go or ASUS ROG Ally, you might have encountered an issue where game downloads to your SD card are painfully slow. Like pre-broadband slow. So what gives?

You might think those little Linux emulation handhelds are limited to playing SNES and PS1 games, but you can effectively turn them into a tiny (and very limited) Steam Deck using PC Ports.

All people have a little of that completionist streak in us, which is why games have things like trophies, collectibles, and checklists you can tick off. For some people, however, that urge borders on an obsession. They need to find every secret, see all the content in a video game, and get those platinum trophies or maximum gamerscore rewards.

An "indie" game is simply a game where the people creating the game don't answer to any outsiders when it comes to its creative direction. Generally, people think of indie games as having low budgets and small teams, but that's not actually a requirement to be independent.

The original Star Trek series was revolutionary. It changed how people thought of sci-fi on television, and it pushed the envelope in other ways as well. It was social commentary, and it wasn't pulpy or campy like what had come before.

Do AI models "think"? This is an important question, because to someone using something like ChatGPT or Claude, it sure looks like the bot is thinking. We even have little prompts that pop up that say "thinking" and these days you can even read a bot's "chain of thought" to see how it reasoned its way to a conclusion.

Mac gaming is on the rise. With great, capable hardware and increasing developer support with help from Apple, those who choose to go with Cupertino instead of Redmond now have more opportunities to play in between work sessions.

Wall-mounting is my preferred way to install a TV, and that's true for a lot of people. The only problem is that some people tend to mount their TVs too high.

The iProVPN service is a relatively new entrant to the world of VPN subscriptions, having been launched in 2020. Yet it has been gaining popularity thanks to offering lifetime access deals and smart marketing. However, what does iProVPN offer that would steer you away from other, more established brands? I set out to answer that very question.