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My PC has an M2 WiFi slot so I figured– why not stuff something in it if I could get it cheap. And then I looked around, and found that I could get WiFi plus Bluetooth for next to nothing...

I was recently shopping for digital rain gauges and finding any one I wanted to be over $30, and stumbled across a full weather station under $60 from a reasonably reputable brand. It has a good range of sensors, what I think is a generally good design, and it seems more durable than average (but it's early days.) This is a little micro-review of it.

My PC has a liquid cooler in it with two ARGB fans, and an ARGB infinity mirror on top of the water block. I wouldn't have paid extra for the LEDs, but once I had them, I wanted them to do something. So I connected them to my ASRock motherboard, and played around with that functionality for a little while, but it turned out to have a serious deficit.

nVidia corp has emerged as the de facto standard for both 3d graphics and GPGPU (today, mostly "AI") for a variety of reasons including performance and ease of development. But they are irritating in multiple ways, and I've just discovered another one that probably everyone knew about but me.