Wringing full speed out of a network used to be a niche pursuit, the stuff of 10G home labs and datacenter transfers. That’s changing fast. Multi-gig fiber is landing in homes everywhere, even Hawaiian Telecom is selling 3 Gig out here on the Big Island. A fast link is no longer just the wire between your own machines; it’s the wire to the internet too. And Linux still ships network defaults sized for a slower era, so on a fast link, especially a long one, they leave throughput unused. Here’s the sysctl set I run, what each knob does and where it actually matters, and the single-stream iperf3 result over 20 feet of in-wall Cat 5e: 9.75 Gbit/s.

The ModRetro Chromatic arrived with a bold claim: to be the ultimate tribute to Nintendo’s Game Boy. Built with premium materials - a synthetic sapphire screen cover, magnesium-aluminum alloy shell, and PBT buttons - it delivers on that promise. But for those of us deep in the retro gaming world, there’s always room for more. After preordering the limited Midnight edition and later adding a GameStop unit for multiplayer, I began exploring ways to transform this already impressive device into something even more special.

The Cerakey Nada 65 Panda is the world’s first keyboard featuring ceramic keycaps, designed to deliver the smoothest and thockiest typing possible. When I first heard about it, I knew I had to try it - the promise of ceramic keycaps was too intriguing to pass up. The keyboard arrived in beautiful packaging, and the build quality exceeded my expectations.

Music has always been an essential part of my life, and for years, my Sonos system satisfied that need, until a disastrous app update forced me to look elsewhere. This is the story of my switch to the Bluesound ecosystem and how it transformed my listening experience.

For years, I’ve been using a CODE Keyboard equipped with Cherry MX Clear switches. It has served me faithfully, but recently, I’ve felt the need to try something different. Given the plethora of options now available, I embarked on a quest to find the perfect keyboard.