Hater Week / We’re Not Just Mad About Discs Going Away, We’re Mad About Everything It's about the discs, but it's not about the discs By Luke Plunkett / 31 Jul 2026
Hardware / Do Not Buy The War Crime N64 There's so many ways to play the N64. You do not need to support Palmer Luckey's little project. By Chris Person / 30 Jul 2026
Hardware / The Steam Machine's ePaper Faceplate Is Open Source And Full Of Possibility Valve made the eInk Steam Machine faceplate open source to see what the community could do. We're already seeing results. By Chris Person / 24 Jul 2026
Hardware / OpenAI's Expensive Macropad Feels Engineered To Piss Me Off Specifically OpenAI's Codex Micro is the opposite of why I like custom keyboards on every single level. By Chris Person / 22 Jul 2026
steam machine / I Gave My Steam Machine A Second Stick Of RAM Because Valve Couldn't I had to buy a 16GB stick of DDR5 RAM at 2026 prices so I hope you read this. By Chris Person / 9 Jul 2026
Unforced Errors / Accessory Company Yanks Companion Cube Steam Machine Case Because It Never Actually Asked Valve For Permission “We’re going to regret that decision for a very long time” By Nathan Grayson / 29 Jun 2026
Hardware / Bless The BC250, The Budget E-waste Steam Machine The Steam Machine is expensive due to evil freaks. Let's make a miracle computer out of garbage. By Chris Person / 26 Jun 2026
News / Microsoft Raising Xbox Price For A Third—Third!—Time As Mass Layoffs Loom They're axing the 2TB model, too By Nicole Carpenter / 25 Jun 2026
Hardware / Computer Was A Mistake Using a Bluetooth controller on my PC has broken 007 First Light, which is apparently just how things work By Riley MacLeod / 22 Jun 2026
Hardware / The Steam Machine Is An Iconoclastic Computer Born In Unforgiving Times Valve has released a tiny, silent, entry level PC that does important work bringing PCs gaming to the living room and desktop Linux to the masses. The timing could not be worse. By Chris Person / 22 Jun 2026
Hardware / The Devils Fork State Park Ice Machine Owes Me Three Dollars And My Dignity How many people with how many degrees does it take to get ice? By Riley MacLeod / 9 Jun 2026
Hardware / Storage Is Better When It's Modular Century-old interlocking bookshelves, modular toolboxes, fancy design stuff, network racks, and 3D printed bins. Storage is better when it’s modular. By Chris Person / 28 May 2026
