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I started my home lab with the hardware I owned. Initially, I roped my Raspberry Pi 4B (4GB) as a testbed for Docker containers and self-hosting apps. Meanwhile, my Windows 11 desktop and M1 MacBook ...

Either way you slice it, Raspberry Pis make for fantastic networked storage servers. You can run Linux on them (or even ...

The Rhizome Microgrants 2025-26 program has been funded by small donations from our community. Octant-funded projects were ...

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Subscription services are everywhere these days, and they only seem to get more expensive. Luckily, with a Raspberry Pi, you ...

A Raspberry Pi can open up all sorts of possibilities, but these tiny PCs can have a variety of other, unexpected uses. Here ...

Raspberry Pi boards are no longer constrained – these days, you can get a quad-core board with 8 or 16GB of RAM to go around, ...

Samsung may end SATA SSDs, with a January announcement and contracts honored, helping you time purchases before prices climb ...

We all saw it coming, but it still doesn't feel great. It seems that the RAM shortage that has us all mourning the not-so-terrible prices of a few months ago might now also open the door to a GPU ...

Well, it's the end of 2025, and the AI crunch is making hardware prices cruise for the stratosphere. At least, SSDs are rising and RAM is through the roof. However, one category that isn't affected at ...

We keep a close eye on every aspect of the PC market, and (as we warned a few weeks ago), data center demand is resulting in major price spikes for both memory and storage. RAM costs are increasing, ...