Your local library might have closed its physical doors, but its digital holdings are still open to the public—and at all hours. Free loans on ebooks, movies, audiobooks, and magazines represent just […]
Q: What’s the fastest solution for local or private game streaming? A: All options work pretty well. You can pick whichever suits your preference (Steam Remote Play, AMD Link, Nvidia GameStream, etc), […]
Q: I saw PCWorld’s lists for the best password managers, and your top picks were for cloud-based services. Wouldn’t a locally stored password database be more secure? A: One of our top […]
Valheim: how to create a local Australian dedicated server
We already know that Windows 11 Home will require a Microsoft account (MSA) at the beginning of the installation process. What Microsoft hasn’t publicized is whether it’s possible to log in with […]
There are many good reasons to use an official Microsoft account, connected at least nominally to your online presence, in Windows 11. And there are at least as many good reasons not […]
What can I say? I’m a bandwidth cheapskate. Always have been, always will be. So, when I have the opportunity to download something locally and not from the Internet, I do. And […]
It’s not enough to champion AI hardware that supports local large language models, generative AI, and the like. Hardware vendors need to step up and serve as a middleman — if not […]
Did you know that it’s entirely possible to use Windows 11 with a local-only account, the way it worked way back when computers still used floppy drives? You’d be forgiven for not […]
There are various ways to work together in a network based on Windows 11. The simplest is to set up a shared workgroup, a kind of team of computers with equal rights. […]
