In the Lab: Platform Keys, Nym VPN, Jellyfin, and More

Sometimes we go quiet for a while. We recently celebrated the United States 250th birthday, but unlike the 200th anniversary, several events were canceled at the last minute because of bad weather. At least we enjoyed time with our families. On top of that, we've been busy working on some new projects and upgrades that we hope you'll find interesting. Here are a few of them. Mini PC UpgradeOne of our everyday workhorses is a budget Beelink SER5 Mini PC. It has performed reliably for two years, especially with Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. Still, it felt like the system was not delivering its full potential. After some testing, we quickly found the culprit: the old solid-state drive (SSD). The AMD Ryzen 5 5560U processor barely got warm under heavy loads, and the upgraded 32GB of memory was hardly being used. The SSD, however, was struggling with read and write speeds. We found a great deal on a 1TB SSD with a built-in cache and decided it was worth the investment. Installation was quick and…