So, I have been using Windows since XP which I have believed to be the best OS Microsoft ever made. Windows 10 was good only as in it was better than 7. I think Windows 11 is something refreshing from Microsoft in a very, very long time. Windows has never…

So, I have used Onkyo receivers since 2005 when I got the first refurbished one for $699 (instead of the actual price of $899) or something like that. That receiver lasted till about two years ago, at which point I got a TX-NR656 for my listening room and the TX-NR686…

Supply Chain was just an interesting word for most of us before the pandemic. But, the more we sink into it, it slowly but surely colliding with our worlds. …

I got the latest generation iPad Mini not so long ago. It is out of warranty, but definitely not that old. It is a child of the pandemic. I got it because I wanted to use it for a more comfortable reading experience because of its larger screen size. …

I confess I had no idea how to manage the cables connected to my router in the basement. The electrician who put in the first few cables just left those hanging with ethernet jacks — some of them are not long enough.

Over time when three increased to ten, not…

This is a phenomenon I’ve noticed in software companies in the US. Bad apples come into a good workplace, create a mess, stick on to their jobs slowly poisoning the well, creating chaos. …

So, this week, I was finally able to get 95% of all Sonos speakers hardwired to my Nest/ Google Wifi network. If you had told me before this that there would be so much difference in my Wifi performance, I would not have believed you.

~7 speakers were already hard…

I wanted to write a quick article on whether a home network with a 10gbps backbone will make any difference to a regular, non tech savvy user who does not have any special requirement like transferring huge files over the home network for work purposes, etc.

A typical user would…