Published Oct 28, 2026, 5:00 PM 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.

Starting up a home lab is a very rewarding endeavor locally, but most setups hit the same wall around the same time. You get your Jellyfin instance up and running with your favorite shows and movies, your Immich library up as a Google Photos replacement , maybe a few other experimental containers .…