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Melanie and I cover some ground in this episode; we move from our respective trips to Trader Joe’s to Alex’s Senior Night to college football (side eyes! I see yous!) to the second part of our holiday gift guide. You’ll find all the links in our show notes, but if it’s easier for you, you can also find the gift guide links in this Google doc. And on top of the gift guide goodness, there’s also a new round of Five Favorites (my turn this time). Enjoy, y’all! Our Amazon Shop Become a Patron! 2021 Holiday Gift Guide Google Doc...

Let’s be honest, after the year we’ve all been through — getting an emergency kit doesn’t seem like such a bad idea. Whether you’re camping, going on a cross-country road trip or live in an area prone to natural disasters, an emergency survival kit could save your life — or help you save a life. The coronavirus put many people on edge at the start of 2020, and since then we’ve experienced wildfires, record-breaking cold temperatures, power outages, floods and civil unrest. For all these reasons, we recommend keeping an emergency kit or go-bag at the ready. So, whether you foresee...

Once upon a time, if you wanted to install a piece of software, you just stuck an executable file on your hard drive somewhere and went on your merry way. But as computers became more complex, so did installation procedures, which led to problems like "dependency hell," as different applications dueled over conflicting system configurations. One increasingly popular solution today is to add a container layer to the software stack, giving each application its own temporary, sandboxed environment without needing the resources required for a complete stand-alone virtual machine. And as a bonus, containers make it easier to deploy applications...

The ASUS event unveiled details on their latest motherboards, PSUs, gaming headset and monitors. The ASUS announcement, “Break All Limits”, presented their latest innovations they’ve been cooking up in the R&D labs. The Taiwanese tech company is most famous for their gaming laptops, GPUs, gaming accessories and peripherals, along with delivering the best motherboards to the market. Today, they lifted the curtain and unveiled their work on new power supplies (PSUs), monitors, gaming headset and most importantly, their new, next generation Z690 motherboards. ROG Thor The new PSUs ASUS showcased was the new ASUS ROG Thor that has taken into...

Lovers of the internet from the early 2000s rejoice! Complete with a single muscly arm, two majestic wings, and teeth drawn with famously consummate V’s, Trogdor the Burninator, a dragon from the Homestar Runner Flash series will now star in the Kickstarter funded Trogdor!! The Board Game.Drawing on the popularity of the website and the hilarity its characters imprinted on the minds of a generation of young internet users 15 years ago, the Kickstarter campaign Homestar Runner launched today met its $75,000 goal in less than three hours. The campaign, set to last 30 days launched at 11 AM EDT and...