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Total fail that a simple problem took out this ISP | The Internet broke for ViewQwest broadband customers on 31 May 2025. This comes after another severe disruption that begun on 30 April 2025, lasting a few days for ...
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At times, I wonder, who owns the laptop. | This is mostly a rant. Our Ministry of Education (MOE) makes our students pay lots of money to buy a laptop and then cripple it so that basic things become so difficult to ...
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I'm surprised that I like the Royal Kludge RK100 quite a lot. | I normally don’t make a big deal about keyboards — not unless they’re particularly spectacular, like the Logitech MX Keys, which I’ve raved ...
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Is now a good time to switch to EV cars? | Singapore plans to require all new cars from 2030 to be of cleaner-energy type. With just five years to go from now, people who are looking to buy a new car now face a ...
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ASUS' sleek Zenbook laptop line now has a model with Ultra 7 255H processor. | The Zenbook line of ASUS’ ultraportable series of laptops has been around so many years that its evolution through each generation ...
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The ultimate home lab server for 8-bay NAS and to host multiple VMs. | This is my ultimate DIY NAS build of 2025. It packs 8x hot-swap 3.5-inch disk bays, a decent Pentium Gold 8505, 64 GB of RAM, and enough NVMe ...
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The best 8-bay ITX case for DIY NAS projects. | I’ve built clunky NAS using tower cases in the past. However, for my NAS build this time around, I wanted something diminutive. Ideally, it would be something as ...
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Excellent motherboard choice for a NAS and home server. | The soul of any DIY NAS system has got to be its motherboard. After deciding to build a new NAS a few months ago, I spent some time to research the parts I ...
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The largely unplanned Wi-Fi, router, switch, PCs, NAS, and monitor upgrade. | We’re only two months into 2025, but I’ve already got quite a few home tech upgrades that I want to talk about. Many of them ...
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No need for brand loyalty with telcos. | StarHub was my first ever broadband provider. I’ve been their customer for over 20 years, even before the time Singapore began its Next Generation National Broadband ...
