iPhone 17e review: The iPhone for your parents gets better
…Another notable update is that base storage is being increased to 256GB with the same $600 starting price, a welcome move on Apple's part, particularly as the memory crisis rages on…
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The best gaming upgrade in 2026 isn't hardware, it's AI upscaling and frame generation
…Fast-forward to 2026, and its successor, the RTX 5090, is only about 27% faster for a 25% increase in MSRP. That felt underwhelming to me, which is why I decided to…
Your PC setup desperately needs these upgrades instead of overpriced components
…There's no guarantee that prices will return to pre-2026 levels, but at least you won't have to pay through the nose for a new component. Meanwhile, this could be…
FSR 4.1 just made AMD's last-gen flagship a smarter buy than its current one
…The "long-life" narrative that AMD has always marketed Radeon GPUs with, as opposed to the increasingly segmented GPU stack from Nvidia, has definitely turned on its head lately. Not only did…
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I finally upgraded from gigabit and realized how much my network was holding me back
…2Gbps and even 5Gbps plans are starting to show up in more places, and they’re not as outrageously priced as they used to be. Sounds like a great deal until you…
Claude is still the best agentic coding tool, but Anthropic's tightening grip is the best argument yet for going local
…The hardware to run anything in the 27B-and-up range costs a fair bit, and both VRAM and system RAM are constant constraints made even harder to reconcile given the increasing…
4 Plex settings I changed to finally get reliable 4K streaming
…Unfortunately, that also means a file that should have been played directly suddenly dramatically increases your server's CPU usage. The fix for this is surprisingly simple. Just change the subtitle settings…
I use Claude and local LLMs together now, and it costs half as much while being twice as fast
…Claude Opus 4.7 is undeniably one of the most capable models for creative and programming work, and that capability comes at the cost of subscription fees and message limits that increasingly…
Synology's DSM is brilliant until you realize what TrueNAS and Unraid can actually do
…Using a standard ATX motherboard? There are usually at least four SATA ports for connecting drives, but each PCI slot can be used to add more channels for increasing the number of…
I replaced ChatGPT and Claude with this powerful local LLM and saved over $20 a month while gaining full control
…Increasing the CPU threads via -t increases its computational prowess, but since I wanted enough context size for my coding tasks, I set -c to 65536 . After asking our resident LLM maestro…