How-To Geek

Proxmox VE turned a $35 Raspberry Pi into my homelab's most powerful machine

Umair Khurshid — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 12:00:13 GMT

I had a Raspberry Pi 5 lying around and I was not doing much with it. Then Proxmox VE recently announced ARM64 support on 5th of August and that immediately made me think about my Raspberry Pi. Proxmox now provides Proxmox VE for 64-bit ARM platforms, although the Raspberry Pi devices are not officially supported because of their boot and hardware-description architecture.

Linux's creator says you should use ECC RAM—here's what that means

Arol Wright — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 11:30:13 GMT

ECC stands for error-correcting code, and it works by using additional parity bits to verify that the data read from memory matches the data that was originally written to it. Regular RAM has no such safeguard. If a single bit in a memory cell flips from a 0 to a 1, or vice versa, standard memory has no way of knowing anything went wrong. That corrupted bit just gets treated as valid data and passed along to whatever process requested it.

This Windows tool lets you see exactly which apps are phoning home (and lets you cut them off)

Arol Wright — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 11:00:13 GMT

Windows doesn't make it easy to see what your installed apps are quietly sending out over the internet. Portmaster, a free and open-source tool, changes that by showing every outbound connection an app makes and giving you the power to block it.

5 game-changing Google Maps features I never noticed until I went looking

Tony Phillips — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 10:30:13 GMT

Google Maps is one of those apps I use almost every time I leave the house, yet I keep finding things I didn't know it could do. After years of using it for directions, I've become much more interested in the little features that make navigating and planning a trip less frustrating. Here are the five I've found most useful.

The mechanic is overcharging you for these 5 things anybody can do at home

Jorge A. Aguilar — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 01:00:13 GMT

Don't assume the multi-point inspection of your car helps you in a real way that isn't for the dealer. Sometimes they're just looking for easy ways to sell you more services you can do at home for much less. You pay a bit more upfront for the equipment, but you don't need to be a professional to take care of your vehicle. You can do plenty at home for cheap.

Windows has been hiding these 4 powerful features in plain sight this whole time

Ismar Hrnjicevic — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:00:13 GMT

Windows sometimes feels like it's lacking advanced features when compared to other operating systems, but the truth is that Windows has a lot of fancy power tools at its disposal.

My Pixel Watch now shows my stress level like a mood ring—and I built it in minutes

Joe Fedewa — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 23:30:13 GMT

Stress is something that's easy to feel, but not necessarily as easy to see. That's part of the utility of wearing a smartwatch like the Pixel Watch—you can see many of your vitals right on your wrist. Numbers are cool, but what if your watch face were a mood ring?

I fried two solar portable power stations, don't make the same mistake

Bertel King — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 22:47:12 GMT

This is a story of user error. I am the user who made the error, and I'm putting this out there so that you don't make the same mistake. Here's how I killed not one, but two small portable power stations before I charged a single device.

3 great Paramount+ movies to watch this week (August 31 - September 6)

Derek Malcolm — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 22:30:13 GMT

As we fast approach September 1 tomorrow, Paramount+ is getting ready to back the dump truck up and roll a pile of catalog movies to the service for U.S. subscribers to enjoy—120 of them, to be exact. The movie chart for the service currently has the demonic road-trip horror Passenger in the top spot, and the Wayans brothers return on September 3 with a brand new Scary Movie installment.

5 networking upgrades under $30 to try before replacing your router

Monica J. White — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 22:00:13 GMT

Some network upgrades aren't worth your money. In fact, many are. But do you know what one of those unnecessary upgrades is? A new router you absolutely didn't need to buy yet.