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Netflix is one of the well-known and used streaming services in the entertainment industry. It has released some of the biggest TV series and movies that have captured the zeitgeist over the past 10–15 years. Shows like Stranger Things, Bridgerton, and Squid Game have swept up the world in hysteria. It has become a widely recognized distributor of films as well, boasting award-winning pictures for years. Anyone who has had a Netflix subscription has dealt with changes to the interface, a wider availability for the platform, and pricing hikes. This comes with the territory, as shows and movies are expensive…

I thought I finally had it figured out. If the smart TV is bad, and Android TV streaming boxes and sticks are bloated, then I’d just make my own streaming box. That’s what I did. I installed Android TV on a Raspberry Pi 4 and plugged it into my TV. It was great. It was bliss to use my TV without ads and bloat from Google and other services. I even got Gigabit Ethernet as a bonus. I went ahead and installed all the apps I’d ever need. It was exciting to set up, and it was promising. But now…

For decades, the global wellness elite looked to the Swiss Alps or the French Riviera for the pinnacle of restoration. However, in 2026, the compass has shifted decisively toward South Tyrol. This northernmost province of Italy, where the jagged limestone peaks of the UNESCO-protected Dolomites meet rolling alpine meadows, has quietly ascended to become the world’s new wellness capital. The secret to South Tyrol’s success lies in its unique “Alpine-Mediterranean” duality. It is a place where German precision meets Italian dolce vita, creating a luxury landscape that is as efficient as it is indulgent. According to Travel & Spa Magazine,…

Fallout, a TV show based on the post-apocalyptic video game series, has been running on Prime Video for two seasons now, and people are lapping it up. The show is set in the ruins of what used to be the United States, where mutants, outlaws, and even Roman centurions have cropped up where there used to be civilization. The show does a great job of capturing the dark humor of the game series, staying true to the demented 1950s aesthetic, and serving up great drama. And it does it all without over-relying on computer-generated effects, green screens, or other digital…

The Google Play Store on your Android TV offers hundreds of apps for all kinds of uses. And most of the time, those apps are enough. But that’s not the end of the story. Android TV is all about flexibility, which means you can also go beyond what’s available on the Play Store and install apps that aren’t listed. This is referred to as sideloading. It might sound technical, but it’s actually quite easy to do. It’s a simple trick that can dramatically expand what you can do on your Android TV. Sideloading apps on Android TV changes the game…

I have long been a believer in Plex as the best way to view and access your media library remotely. It provides a clean, organized interface that turns my scattered files into my own personal Netflix, and that is exactly how I have been using it for years—until recently. I noticed a feature right there in the menu that I had somehow overlooked—a fully built-in, free streaming library. This discovery initially excited me, as it offered a range of channels across various genres. However, would it be enough to replace other top free streaming channels as a standalone, one-stop solution?…

The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien are some of the most beloved books of the past century, and basically responsible for launching the high fantasy genre as we still know it. Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings movie trilogy is celebrated to this day, but every attempt to bring Tolkien’s world to the screen since then has stumbled. The Hobbit movie trilogy, while profitable, stretched out a short, charming book far too thin, and 2024’s animated feature The War of the Rohirrim made so few waves this may be the first you’re hearing about…

Like many, I’ve been using ChatGPT as my AI of choice for quite a while (even though some are turning away recently. But the truth is that for most things, Claude is better (like for doing real work) and in some cases save you a ton of time by helping you with work. It’s more perceptive (and can brilliantly ask you clarifying questions in order to form a deep understanding), it has vastly better coding skills than ChatGPT, and it has more capability to do work on your behalf through agentic tools like Cowork which can literally use your computer…

I’ve recently been toying with the idea of repurposing my bookshelf active monitor speakers for home cinema use, in the hope that they will deliver better results than my soundbar. This got me wondering what I could do with the soon-to-be-unemployed soundbar; after all, it’s simply a speaker with a broad soundstage and multiple connectivity options. I quickly realized that my soundbar was much more flexible than I had thought, and I could adapt it for many uses beyond a mere TV speaker. An old or unused soundbar lying around can be used to great effect to improve a workspace,…

Do you ever get the feeling that your headphones aren’t quite right? That they could sound better? It’s a fairly common feeling, and as someone who tests and reviews headphones, it happens to me all the time. Some headphone manufacturers offer an app you can use to tweak your EQ settings, which is handy, but what if you don’t really know where to start? That’s where you need an EQ app like Wavelet. It’s a free Android app that sets the best possible EQ configuration for your headphones or earbuds, working towards the Harman curve as much as possible. On…