So far in this series we have gone through the reasoning behind my choices for the CPU and motherboard, as well as the case and cooler. In today’s article, we will be focusing our attention on RAM,...

Motivation I recently bought a smart TV, and in order to make full use of, I would like to connect to the Internet. However, connecting the TV directly to my router, to gain Internet access, would ...

Motivation Most home network setups rely on a very basic configuration in which all devices are connected to the same Local Area Network (LAN) managed by a single device (the ISP-provided router)....

In the first installment of this series, we walked through the different aspects which influenced my choice of both a CPU and a motherboard for my new computer. Our walk-through ended with me settl...

I have always used old/refurbished hardware which almost always used old BIOS firmware. As such, I never had to deal with the intricacies of UEFI. In fact, even in the few recent times when the har...

Motivation I have never built a computer before. For one reason or another, the timing was never right. Admittedly, the timing still is not right, and as I am writing this, the world is going th...

Following the clues in the search for answers to my questions, I quickly stumbled across the build section in the LineageOS website. That section provides detailed instructions one needs to follow ...

Free software? I consider myself to be an avid GNU/Linux enthusiast, and have been so, ever since my roommate introduced me to it eight years or so ago. I have been using Linux as my daily driver...