Most of us use USB drives for temporary file storage, but they can do much more. You can boot an operating system, store and encrypt passwords, automate critical data backups, and more. If you have a spare USB drive that you only use for storage, here are some other ways to make the most of it.

Open earbuds may sound a little counter-intuitive. Don't you want to hear your music as well as you can? Believe it or not, life and music are both all about balance, and open earbuds do just that.

If you want to use a Linux computer, you may assume you need to buy a Windows PC and install Linux on it. That's not the case if you look into these PC makers that sell Linux-native computers.

A lot of ultra-wide monitors out there also happen to come with ultra-tall price tags. So any discounts we can get on the best models are always welcome. Case in point—this excellent monitor by Samsung is very, very cheap as I write this.

Your PC's performance can be better or worse depending on several factors, but a really important one is storage speed. For the best possible performance, you need an NVMe SSD for your boot drive. And one of Crucial's best ones is currently at an excellent price.