I replaced Google Home with Home Assistant and a local LLM, and I'm not looking back
…Sign in to your XDA account I've been big on the Home Assistant train for a while now, and I've been slowly migrating all of my cloud-based services, where…
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Self-hosted AI may not be for everyone, but I'm done paying for ChatGPT and other cloud models
…Or train their AIs with my data, for that matter. Avoiding paid platforms and their data-collecting tendencies is the reason I began self-hosting everything, and although local LLMs aren’t…
This MCP Server turned my NAS into a self-hosted AI assistant, and it changed how I work
…Besides computing, his interests include spending hours in long RPGs, yelling at his friends in co-op games, and practicing guitar. Sign in to your XDA account Besides its centralized storage and…
You need these 6 self-hosted tools if you value your privacy
…Since everything runs on your local machine, you don’t have to worry about the firms harvesting your data and using it to train their AI models. You also don’t have…
I ditched Copilot on VS Code for this free extension, and it's miles ahead
…Besides computing, his interests include spending hours in long RPGs, yelling at his friends in co-op games, and practicing guitar. Sign in to your XDA account Although I’ve started reducing…
Replacing paid productivity apps with a self-hosted setup helped me save money, but I had to make some compromises
…Likewise, since my data remains entirely on my local servers, I don’t have to worry about large corporations gaining access to private files and using them to train AI features that…
Nvidia's groundbreaking VRAM solution only works best on its fastest GPUs
…When Tensor Cores are absent, the AI inference workload is handled by regular shaders, which dramatically reduces performance and makes NTC unsuitable for real-time use on those GPUs. 06 / 8 AI…
I replaced Cursor and Antigravity with a completely local VS Code setup, and I missed less than I expected
…Besides computing, his interests include spending hours in long RPGs, yelling at his friends in co-op games, and practicing guitar. Sign in to your XDA account Considering that AI tools can…
Until NotebookLM, I never believed AI could be this game-changing for productivity
…I've been on the AI train since the day it started making headlines. I'd try all the new tools, get disappointed, and end up thinking, "Hey, my perfectionist self can…
Nvidia's new VRAM compression trick just gave it a reason to keep selling 8GB GPUs
…neural representation , or a tiny AI model, which can reconstruct those textures in real time with way less data, using the GPU's Tensor Cores. In practical terms, this translates to drastically…