I've been out of the media server game for a long time, despite being really into apps like Xbox Media Player (XBMC), which ...

There’s really no benefit to leaving drives spun up 24/7 in a homelab environment. Your drives will typically last longer and ...

Discrete GPUs also offer flexibility beyond Plex. If your server doubles as a workstation, runs machine learning workloads, or handles other GPU-accelerated tasks, the additional horsepower isn’t ...

Docker is an important tool for developers and for running apps across networks, and it has many uses for the pro and ...

It may finally be time to ditch dedicated streaming devices such as the Amazon Fire TV Stick or Roku Streaming Stick, at least in some cases. There are a few reasons for this, mostly because smart TVs ...

Plex, a famous way for dads to show off their (okay, our) movie and TV hoarding acumen just got incrementally less useful for certain users. The Roku free-for-all is officially over, and more pain is ...

If you enjoy streaming your own content via Plex to devices like Roku, Fire TV, Apple TV, or Android TV, some bad news is coming your way: it’s going to start costing money soon. Back in April 2025, a ...

Here's some bad news for folks who've been using Plex to stream stuff from a buddy's personal media server to their TV for free for years. As it pledged to do earlier this year when it bumped up the ...

The Plex personal media server had long allowed remote streaming for free users. The company announced back in March that this would in future require a paid Plex Pass subscription, which was set to ...

Mark has almost a decade of experience reporting on mobile technology, working previously with Digital Trends. Taking a less-than-direct route to technology writing, Mark began his Android journey ...

Have you ever looked at an old MacBook gathering dust on a shelf and wondered if it could still serve a purpose? While it might seem like yesterday’s tech, that aging device is far from obsolete. In ...

Configuring an SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) server on Windows Server is a common task for system administrators who need to enable applications or websites to send email messages. Unlike a ...