The Android Auto feature nobody talks about that I use on every drive
…03 / 8 Compatibility Which of the following smartphone operating systems is compatible with Android Auto? A Android 5.0 and above B Android 6.0 and above C Android 8.0 and…
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Home Assistant is way more than a smart home dashboard, and here's what I actually run on it
6d agoI connected my dumb appliances to Home Assistant, and it felt like upgrading my whole house
1w agoI used an old router as a dedicated smart home network, and it solved two problems at once
1w agoHome Assistant can now see when you use the physical remote, and it changes everything
1w agoI turned this $55 Raspberry Pi into the ultimate streaming device
…His expertise broadly covers computers, smartphones, game consoles, headphones, smart home products, browsers, and apps. Sign in to your XDA account After Netflix started cracking down on password sharing and Amazon started…
What Intel Firefly actually means for Windows laptops (and why it's not just another processor)
…execute on Windows-compatible processors. 04 / 8 Hardware Which types of devices does Intel Firefly primarily aim to target beyond just Windows laptops? A Game consoles and smart TVs B Servers and…
A used workstation costs less than a new GPU, but it pays for itself in ways gaming hardware never will
…It's a defensible purchase that I've made myself with the goal of high-refresh rate gaming, but if you're building a home lab, a new GPU is the wrong…
I've been running some of the biggest open-weight LLMs for free on Nvidia's cloud
…are the ones that arrive at a scales that doesn't fit on home hardware. A free, OpenAI-compatible endpoint serving the full-precision weights of those open models, hosted by the…
Immich finally feels good enough on my NAS that I deleted Google Photos for real this time
…The thing people miss is that the features that make it feel like Google Photos — smart search and face recognition aren't free computationally. Smart search works by running every image through…
Most people use Ollama or llama.cpp for local LLMs, but these are the tools I switch to when it gets serious
…My Bachelor’s thesis was conducted on the viability of benchmarking the non-functional elements of Android apps and smartphones such as performance, and I’ve been working in the tech industry…
Home Assistant's ePaper ecosystem finally has an open standard worth building around
…Sign in to your XDA account ePaper smart displays in the Home Assistant world have never had a hardware problem. The reTerminal E-series, Waveshare's ESP32 ePaper boards, M5Paper, and the…
I turned my old Android phone into a useful dashboard diagnostic display in just 10 minutes
…a Bluetooth OBD-II adapter and a compatible application to translate the data into something I could read. I dove back into my research and quickly found that an ELM327-compatible Bluetooth…
Someone made an ESP32 controller where the game lives on the pad itself
…However, after finding his home at MakeUseOf in February 2019, he would eventually move on to its sister site, XDA, to bring the latest and greatest in Windows, Linux, and DIY electronics…