How to Completely Remove AI Telemetry and Background Bloatware from Windows 11

AI Telemetry Windows 11

If you want to remove AI telemetry from Windows 11, you’re not alone. A fresh Windows 11 install in 2026 comes loaded with more unwanted software, background services, and data collection than ever before. Copilot, Recall, Click to Do, Bing baked into the taskbar, Start menu ads, widgets, and dozens of apps you never asked … Read more

How to Dual Boot Windows 11 and Nobara Linux for Optimized Gaming Performance

Windows-11-and Nobara-Linux

If you want to dual boot Windows 11 and Nobara Linux, you’re already thinking smarter than most gamers. Running both operating systems on a single machine gives you the best of two worlds — Windows for the games that require it, and Nobara Linux for everything where Linux genuinely pulls ahead. And that gap is … Read more

Raspberry Pi 5 vs Arduino: Which Board Should You Actually Use?

Raspberry Pi 5 vs Arduino

I still remember the first time I had to choose between a Raspberry Pi and an Arduino. I was sitting at my desk with a half-finished robotics project, two boards in front of me, and absolutely no idea which one to reach for. I made the wrong choice, wasted two weeks, and had to start … Read more

My ISP Was Killing My 4K Cloud Gaming — Here’s How I Fixed It

ISP 4K cloud gaming

I still remember the night I lost a ranked match because my stream froze at the worst possible moment. I had a 200 Mbps plan. There was no reason for it. But there I was, staring at a pixelated mess instead of a 4K game stream. After a week of troubleshooting, I finally figured out … Read more

How to Self-Host a Private LLM on Raspberry Pi 5 (Without the Cloud)

How to Self-Host a Private LLM on Raspberry Pi 5

Self-hosting a private LLM on a Raspberry Pi 5 started as a curiosity for me. I had an 8GB Pi 5 sitting on my desk, mostly running Pi-hole and a few Docker containers. One afternoon I started wondering — could this small board actually run a real language model? Something I could chat with, ask … Read more