As someone still rocking the Fire TV 3, I have never been a fan of the Fire OS interface, which is all about shoving ads and Prime content down the throat, while making the device nearly unusable. This could be mitigated by […]
Being close to the airport, setting up an ADS-B receiver for flight tracking was always on my agenda. I eventually got to it earlier this year by getting the RTL-SDR kit. However, it was plainly an on-and-off affair as I had no […]
An attempt was made to make a mid-range Samsung tablet a little less bloaty. However, the universe is governed by laws that are insusceptible to change. Thus, there comes a time to rewrite the laws themselves. In the case of an Android […]
It has certainly been a slow burn in terms of incrementally extracting more performance from the laptop. If you have been with me, then you might have read the previous three installments dealing with various changes made through software in pursuit […]
Update (June 1): The curve I ended with in the original article ended up being unstable in scenarios where the frequency dropped down to the 1600s on account of the thermal limit being breached. Hence, I tweaked the curve further to […]
The Samsung Galaxy Tab S5e is a great everyday tablet as I previously mentioned in my review apart from the fact that it isn’t so out of the box. The reason behind this is Samsung’s bloated One UI which takes a toll […]
My previous post about the A15 was about plucking the low hanging fruit of performance. However, there is always the scope of optimising the settings further to gain the greatest benefit for the lowest cost. That is what I was up to […]
Previously, in my review of the laptop, the only tweaking I had undertaken was an auto-overclock of the GPU which, as per expectation, yielded a performance improvement of around 6% overall with only a slight loss in CPU performance, purely on the […]
One of the significant purchases I made over the past 6 months is the Dell XPS 7590 with Intel’s Coffee Lake Core i9-9980HK, Samsung’s 32 GB DDR4-2667 RAM, Toshiba’s 1 TB SSD, Nvidia’s GTX 1650 and the crĂšme de la crĂšme that […]
The demands from the hardware have arisen significantly with every passing year, which is only made worse by manufacturer-specific UIs adding an extra layer of cruft. While hardware capabilities increase demonstrably every year, the software demands more than negate the gains and […]