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ARM v RISC-V

Benchmarking the Orange Pi 5 Ultra, Orange Pi 5 Max and Orange Pi RV2

June 20, 2025 Steve Emms Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

I benchmark the Orange Pi 5 Ultra, Orange Pi 5 Max, Orange Pi RV2 against a Raspberry Pi 5 and a DreamQuest N100 Mini PC.

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BrosTrend 5 Port 2.5GB Switch Review

June 19, 2025 Steve Emms Hardware, Reviews

The BrosTrend 5 Port 2.5GB Switch retails for £38. It’s a very cheap way to upgrade your local network for faster transfers.

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Banana Pi BPI-F3

Banana Pi BPI-F3 Single Board Computer Running Linux: Introduction

June 18, 2025 Steve Emms Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

The Banana Pi BPI-F3 is an industrial grade RISC-V development board, designed with the SpacemiT K1 8 core RISC-V chip.

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Intehill 13.4″ 4K+ Touchscreen Portable Monitor U13ZT Review

June 17, 2025 Steve Emms Hardware, Reviews

The Intehill 13.4″ 4K+ Touchscreen Portable Monitor is an inexpensive, extremely lightweight, very slim, monitor designed to be moved around. Here’s my verdict.

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Raspberry Pi 5 Desktop Mini PC: Ollama GUI

June 16, 2025 Steve Emms Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews, Roundup

Did you know that even a Raspberry Pi 5 is able to run LLMs locally? Even better, the developer of Pi-Apps has produced an optimized install script which makes it Raspberry Pi 5 friendly.

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Linux Candy

Linux Candy: WSelector – wallpaper selector manager

June 13, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Reviews, Utilities

WSelector is a modern GTK4/Adwaita application for browsing, downloading, and setting wallpapers. It’s written in Python.

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Raspberry Pi 5 Desktop Mini PC: Avoid snap pollution

June 12, 2025 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

Declutter the output from df when the Pi 5 has snaps installed. Better yet, use an alternative to df for even nicer output.

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OrangePi SBC - RISC-V

Orange Pi RV2 Single Board Computer Running Linux: Introduction

June 11, 2025 Steve Emms Hardware, Reviews

The Orange Pi RV2 is a low cost RISC-V single board computer designed to be an affordable option to explore RISC-V technology.

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OrangePi SBC ARM

Orange Pi 5 Ultra and Max Single Board Computers Running Linux: Introduction

June 11, 2025 Steve Emms Hardware, Reviews

In this series, I’m exploring two ARM-based single board computers produced by Orange Pi.

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UPERFECT Unify B5 Portable Monitor 1080P Display Review

June 10, 2025 Steve Emms Hardware, Reviews

My findings on the UPERFECT 15.6″ VESA portable monitor 1080P display.

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