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Sydney Butler

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Indexed articles, last 90 days
141
Latest publication
Oct 1, 2026
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Jul 9, 2026

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  1. Article · Oct 1, 2026 · Sydney Butler

    I was wrong: DLSS isn't the future of GPUs, but this is (opens the original)

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    DLSS has been a game-changer. NVIDIA's decision to sacrifice space in its GPUs for dedicated AI-acceleration hardware has turned out to be a visionary move. DLSS solves a serious problem created by high-resolution flat panels and the frustration of having to target an arbitrary panel resolution because scaling methods looked awful. Thanks to DLSS (and to a much lesser extent FSR and XeSS), that problem is now effectively solved, but there's a perception that game developers are using DLSS as a c

  2. Article · Oct 1, 2026 · Sydney Butler

    TV stands are the third option nobody talks about (and renters need to know) (opens the original)

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    I used a TV stand. That's the third option. You can see it in the picture above. It's not a mystery. But wait! There really is more to it than that. Because until I started using a dedicated TV stand, I really didn't think there was a third option other than using the TV's built-in feet or wall-mounting. A while ago, I wrote that I would "never wall-mount a TV again," and that simple statement seemed to resonate with many people. Literally, hundreds of thousands of people have read that piece, a

  3. Article · Sep 29, 2026 · Sydney Butler

    Soon, high-quality Blu-ray ripping might be impossible (opens the original)

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    If you've ever browsed a torrent website (it's OK to just look, right?) you've surely seen movies listed with a retail UHD Blu-ray as the source. Logically, the only way this could happen is if someone used a computer Blu-ray drive to make a digital copy of the original. By creating an account, you agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. You also agree to receive our newsletters; you can unsubscribe any time. *Required: 8 chars, 1 capital letter, 1 number By creating an account, you agree

  4. Article · Sep 29, 2026 · Sydney Butler

    These 5 paid services are worth the cost to escape Google's surveillance (opens the original)

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    It's hard to keep the idea at bay that we're actually living in a cyberpunk dystopia. After all, we're all living under a small handful of trillion-dollar mega-corporations that seem to have a huge amount of clout, and a very unhealthy interest in knowing absolutely everything we do every day. Worst of all, we didn't even get the cool '80s synthwave aesthetic in this deal. Google might be the one company with the most ways to track what we do. Most people use phones that run on Google software,

  5. Article · Sep 29, 2026 · Sydney Butler

    I stopped using my laptop’s HDMI port after realizing USB-C was more reliable (opens the original)

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    We have two Windows gaming laptops in the house, and both of them are hooked up to TVs. For the most part, this works well, but even though the laptops and TVs are all different brands and models, I keep getting stability issues using a direct HDMI connection. I've troubleshooted this issue for a while now, and I just can't figure out the cause. It doesn't happen with computer monitors, only TVs. But no combination of cables, TV settings, or GPU utility tweaks has completely eliminated the issue

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