Sounds like you’re after hackaday and similar specialist blogs

General tech sites will mostly cater to the tech the general public care about, enthusiasts don’t bring in the ad money comparatively

Strong urge to watch him comb his hair real fast

Reddit died June 2023

I don’t know why people are still playing with the corpse

Techy people are a lot more likely to jump through a couple of hoops for something better, compared to your average Joe who isn’t even aware of the problem