A million dollars earned in a student dormitory
For my first college break, inspired by Satisfaction75, I created a device I called Dissatisfaction65 — a 65% wireless keyboard.
Hardware
Dive into the world of hardware technology. Explore the latest devices, components, and innovations shaping the future of computing and electronics.
What if video memory could be used as regular RAM?
I have 8 gigabytes of RAM. On paper it sounds tolerable — right up until you open a couple dozen tabs in Chrome, have Figma and Slack running, open another tab with Stack…
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From Virtual Hands to AI for Survivalists: Curious Open Agent OSes [and One Hardware Project]
Operating systems where AI agents solve assigned tasks and interact with software interfaces are the "new black". We at Beeline Cloud decided to cover several such open…
Five May 2026 Single-Board Computers: Intel N300, RISC-V with AI and Unreleased Raspberry Pi 6
Most manufacturers' single-board computers have long ceased to be just a Raspberry Pi alternative. And over the past few months, boards with 10-gigabit networking, support…
Five Mini PCs of May 2026: Panther Lake, RTX 5080 and External Graphics Support
Mini PCs are no longer just small office computers. In spring 2026, several models were showcased, including a system with RTX 5080, computers with new Intel Panther…
Linux on a Smartphone — PostmarketOS
One of the few ways to use vanilla Linux on a smartphone is installing the PostmarketOS operating system.
New DRAM is 1000 times faster than conventional DRAM, and it can transform the computing world
While we are growing accustomed to the fact that RAM prices have surged more than 200% over the past year and show no signs of dropping in the foreseeable future, the…
How to Run 3D Applications on a Server Without a GPU: From SwiftShader to WARP
Going through my retro computer once again, which I already wrote about on Habr, I replaced the graphics card and launched Quake 2. When I decided to compare the visuals,…
Expectation: build an AI wallpaper try-on in 2 days. Reality: I had to fine-tune my own model on Stable Diffusion
In the highly competitive finishing materials market, any store desperately needs at least one tangible competitive edge. Standard catalogs and discounts no longer surprise…
Homemade ARM laptop, is it real?
I've always wanted to build my own laptop. Now, thanks to advances in ARM-based systems, this has become much easier and entirely feasible.
Google is preparing a replacement for Chromebook: what Googlebook laptops will be like
Over the past decade and a half, Google has managed to create a separate class of subnotebooks. Of course, this refers to Chromebooks. They have significantly reshaped…
Chinese response to H200 — overview of Alibaba's Zhenwu M890
On May 20, at the annual Alibaba Cloud Summit, T-Head, Alibaba's semiconductor division, unveiled the new generation GPU — Zhenwu M890. This accelerator has 144 GB of…
Asus, MSI and Gigabyte Cut Motherboard Production. What Is Happening in the Market?
In recent months, the computer industry has been discussing not so much new processors and graphics cards as the unexpected reduction in motherboard production. Asus,…
Trackball instead of a mouse: who likes it, who doesn't, and why
In the previous article, I talked about how I exercised my wrist at 26, how I built the Corne, how I then switched to the Omega Point 36, on which I still sit to this…
Inside the ALU of the 8085 microprocessor
The arithmetic logic unit is a fundamental part of any computer that performs addition, subtraction, and logical operations, but its operating principle remains a mystery…
Economics of LLM Inference: Why Your Finance Director Should Know the Difference Between Prefill and Decode
In two thousand twenty five the corporate AI inference market reached approximately one hundred billion dollars But the paradox is that the success of business process…
Remember 30-contact SIMMs? The complete history of RAM: from the first modules to 512 GB DDR5
In 1981, the IBM PC 5150 came with 16 or 64 KB of RAM, and the maximum configuration was limited to 640 KB—the architectural barrier of first-generation Intel processors.…
Five mini PCs of mid-spring: from high-performance systems with water cooling to office "hardware"
This selection features several mini PCs that became known in April 2026. Formally, they all belong to the same class of devices—compact desktop computers that can be…
