Published Oct 23, 2026, 7:00 AM EDT

His love of PCs and their components was born out of trying to squeeze every ounce of performance out of the family computer. Tinkering with his own build at age 10 turned into building PCs for friends and family, fostering a passion that would ultimately take shape as a career path.

Besides being the first call for tech support for those close to him, Ty is a computer science student, with his focus being cloud computing and networking. He also competed in semi-pro Counter-Strike for 8 years, making him intimately familiar with everything to do with peripherals.

For the better part of a month, my home server acted like it was possessed by a ghost. After a power outage, it didn't come back on its own like it usually does, and it happened while I was away from home, resulting in a lot of painful hours working without tools I usually rely on. When I pressed the power button myself, it stalled before Proxmox ever loaded.…