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Category: Reviews
ATK Blazing Sky F1 V3 Series Esports Wireless Mouse Review
ATK Blazing Sky F1 V3 Ultimate+ wireless mouse, covering Linux support, 37g weight, PAW3955 sensor, 8K polling and battery life.
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MINISFORUM M2 Panther Lake Mini PC – NPU and Llama
Benchmarking the Minisforum M2’s Intel NPU with Llama 3.2 1B and OpenVINO, including speed, TTFT and AMD Ryzen AI comparisons.
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amdtop – TUI system monitor designed for AMD GPUs and XDNA NPU
amdtop is a terminal-based system monitor for computers powered by AMD hardware.
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NETGEAR Orbi 770: Are the Guest and IoT Networks Really Isolated?
Testing the NETGEAR Orbi 770 shows Guest Wi-Fi isolates LAN devices, while the IoT SSID does not.
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TEAMGROUP T-Force G70 PRO 2TB SSD M.2 2280 NVMe Review
TEAMGROUP T-FORCE G70 PRO 2TB SSD review under Linux, testing PCIe 4.0 performance, sustained writes, random access, temperatures and endurance.
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Minisforum N5 Pro NAS – NPU with FastFlowLM
FastFlowLM puts the Minisforum N5 Pro’s 50 TOPS AMD XDNA 2 NPU to work under Linux for local LLMs and private AI server workloads.
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Flux – multi-threaded Linux file manager
Flux is a fast, minimalist GTK4 file manager for Linux with archive browsing, network access, content search and extensive keyboard control.
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izrss – terminal-based RSS feed reader
izrss is a terminal-based RSS feed reader written in Go.
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Minisforum N5 Pro Review – Five-Bay NAS with Ryzen AI 9 Power
Minisforum N5 Pro review with Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, Ryzen AI 9 HX PRO 370, NVMe storage and 10GbE networking.
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Termora – Terminal Emulator and SSH Client
Termora is an open source terminal emulator and SSH client with host management, SFTP transfers, remote editing, plugins and more.
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Review: Mellow – music player
Mellow is an open source Linux music player with adaptive colours, gapless playback, queue editing, and removable-drive support.
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Beelink EQi 304 Mini PC Review – Noise
How quiet is the Beelink EQi Core 3 304 under Linux? We assess idle, load and fan noise, plus its unusually flexible BIOS fan controls.
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Review: MusiQt – simple music player
MusiQt is a lightweight Qt audio player with gapless playback, directory browsing, compact views and broad format support.
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MinisCloud OS Review – customised Linux NAS operating system
MinisCloud OS is a customised Linux NAS operating system developed for Minisforum. I take a detailed look at the OS.
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fooyin v0.12.0 adds audio conversion and new visualisations
fooyin v0.12.0 adds audio conversion, new visualisations and playback improvements.
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Beelink EQi 304 Mini PC Review – Cores
Beelink EQi 304 Linux benchmarks compare its P-core and LP E-cores with the Intel N100, showing strong gains and scaling.
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Revisited: mpz – Linux music player
We revisit mpz to assess its new gapless playback, equalizer and internet radio features, and whether the player is now worth recommending.
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Beelink EQi 304 Mini PC Review – BIOS
Explore the Beelink EQi Core 3 304 mini PC BIOS, including CPU, power, fan, Secure Boot, Wake-on-LAN and boot settings.
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Beelink EQi 304 Mini PC Review – Power Consumption
I test the Beelink EQi Core 3 304 mini PC’s Linux power consumption at idle, under light use and full CPU load, with electricity costs.
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