I turned my ePaper tablet into a second monitor, and it fixed my focus problem
…E Ink monitors should be more common If nothing else, this experience taught me that it's very strange there aren't more ePaper/E Ink PC displays out there. Don't…
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Running local LLMs every day for five months broke every assumption I had about them
…That’s probably the most honest endorsement I can give local LLMs. It didn’t fully replace anything or blow my expectations out the water, and it took more setup than I…
If Claude Code doesn't fix this one thing, I'm switching to Codex
…He also mentioned that the new model is more honest about its own certainty, and is shipping at the same price as 4.7. It even powers a new Dynamic Workflows feature…
I tested Google's new Gemma 4 12B on my 8GB GPU, and now I don't want to go back to smaller models
…structure (without guidance from me) than my other Gemma models, and somehow also gave more comprehensive responses while getting to the point faster (everything had the same parameters). Related I replaced the…
I replaced my local LLM with a model half its size and got better results — And it wasn't about the parameters
…ended up mattering more for how I actually use LLMs. Context window is basically your model’s working memory. Everything in your conversation, your prompt, and the response it generates has to…
I switched from NotebookLM to this open-source tool, and it does what Google won't
…It's honestly the exact same thing, just implemented differently. It uses RAG (retrieval-augmented generation) to ground its responses in your uploaded sources. So when you ask it something, it's…
I ran Gemma 4 and Qwen 3.5 for the same local tasks, and one pulled miles ahead
…The responses tend to be shorter and more conversational, which is sometimes exactly what I want when I'm just chatting back and forth. Latency is also faster on my hardware since…
I stopped burning through my Claude limits, and these simple tricks are the reason
…A single mega-prompt forces Claude to hold a lot more context, think longer, and generate a much longer response. All of these eat into your session limit faster than you'd…
VRR flicker is the monitor problem nobody warns you about
…and instant response times, the last thing you'd want to experience is something like VRR flicker. The first time I experienced flickering on my Alienware AW3423DW, I honestly thought I just…
NVMe is faster on paper, but your actual workload probably doesn't care
…Boot times dropped, apps opened faster, and Windows felt much more responsive overall. But once you’re already using a SATA SSD, the improvements get much smaller. That includes things like WIndows…