Your 3D printer wastes filament long before anything fails
…More of the strength you actually feel comes from the shell, not a dense honeycomb buried inside. The habit sticks around because a heavier print feels more substantial in your hand, and…
Search
Samsung is killing off SATA SSDs, and your next storage upgrade just got a lot more expensive
…Passionate about gaming and PC technology, she has built countless computers, keyboards and other peripherals - knowing them inside and out. Sign in to your XDA account For close to a decade, the…
I ran local LLMs on Intel's cheapest iGPU, and the results were surprisingly decent
…When he's not working on a new article, you can find him with his head stuck inside a PC or tinkering with a server operating system. Besides computing, his interests include…
Owning the latest GPUs from both Nvidia and AMD made me realize that software matters more than hardware in 2026
…You're getting performance that punches well above its price bracket, even trading blows with the 5080 in some titles, which is exactly what enthusiasts ask for when they complain about Nvidia…
I borrowed Claude prompts from Anthropic engineers and immediately stopped wasting time on bad ones
…Want to stay in the loop with the latest in AI? The XDA AI Insider newsletter drops weekly with deep dives, tool recommendations, and hands-on coverage you won't find anywhere…
My 3D printer profiles were a mess until I let Claude Code show me what I actually had
…The mess was hiding inside settings I trusted daily The first thing I noticed was that my profile mess wasn’t dramatic. There wasn’t one cursed setting ruining everything or one…
Tailscale plus Pi-hole gives you DNS control that Apple and Google will never allow
…Related Is Tailscale the safest way to access your home network remotely? Tailscale is easy to set up, but is that trading off your security? Apple and Google are solving a different…
Your 3D prints are failing because you're using the wrong material, and PLA is the culprit
…To put that into perspective, that is a thermal ceiling easily breached inside cars and atop microwaves. I learned this lesson the hard way after printing a small dashboard ornament. It was…
My UGREEN DXP4800 Pro NAS quietly replaced half my home lab, and I didn’t expect that
…Related I ditched HDDs for an all-SSD NAS — here’s why I went back The trade-offs I didn’t expect The NAS became useful because storage stopped being separate My…
Most Pi-hole setups leak your browsing to your ISP — here's the encryption layer that stops it
…Instead of plain DNS over port 53, everything was wrapped inside HTTPS. Meaning, everything leaving my network looked like regular traffic, but it was now encrypted. Once it was up and running…