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…Related I moved my entire photo library off Google Photos — it cost more than I expected I don't know if I regret it. 20TB is never enough But how far will…
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Claude Code found the quiet problems hiding in my Home Assistant setup, and I've been ignoring them for months
22h agoHome Assistant users are building smarter homes than Google and Amazon ever will
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…Up next, Google Photos. This service can be the biggest storage hog in your system, and the fix is surprisingly easy. Switch your settings to turn backups off entirely until you manually…
Android Auto won't give me an equalizer, so I use this free app instead
…The fix is ludicrously simple Turn off processing you don't need Fixing this mess requires systematically stripping away the unnecessary processing. The car stereo was my first step, since the radio…
Local LLMs perform so much better when you teach them to ask before they answer
…Sign in to your XDA account Prompting an LLM requires a different approach than typing a search query into Google, yet it's common for people to treat them the same . The…
6 underrated Apple CarPlay apps and widgets I use for a distraction-free drive
…Related 3 important ways CarPlay is better than Android Auto Google's in-car infotainment system offers customization and apps, but CarPlay is cohesive and reliable. Google Meet Streamlined audio-only conferencing…
TurboQuant tackles the hidden memory problem that's been limiting your local LLMs
…TurboQuant compresses the KV cache without losing accuracy We've seen this concept before TurboQuant , which Google will present at the International Conference on Learning Representations 2026 (ICLR 2026), is a two…
I stopped trying to replace my Nvidia Shield and built something better instead
…fixed practically every issue I used to face. Quiz 8 Questions · Test Your Knowledge NAS over Nvidia Shield Trivia challenge Think you know why a NAS might outshine a Shield for home…
I stopped using OneDrive after installing this container
…This transparency also allows the community to identify and fix vulnerabilities quickly. A range of customization options Design a personalized dashboard While both OneDrive and Nextcloud offer a home menu, the latter…
Google's Gemma 4 isn't the smartest local LLM I've run, but it's the one I reach for most
…Speculative decoding gives the 31B a speed boost Though Google left performance on the table Google trained the Gemma 4 models with Multi-Token Prediction heads, which would normally allow the model…
The engineer behind NotebookLM's best features showed me his exact setup, and it changes everything
…They just create a notebook whenever they need it, and let the homepage fill up and fill up. Michael's approach is more intentional than that, and it starts with a very…