4 HDMI gadgets I wish I’d discovered a lot sooner
…long way in the past few years and are often very reliable now. The Bi-Directional HDMI switcher One box that simplified multi-display setup I used to think HDMI switches were…
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A used office PC is the best media center upgrade I've made in years
…The problem was reliability. A laptop is not meant to stay plugged in and running all the time, and dealing with battery drain and power management quickly becomes frustrating. So I moved…
I stopped chasing 3D printer upgrades after realizing most don't actually improve prints
…Reliable, easy-to-maintain, or better-suited upgrades show their value quickly and don't need much selling. The upgrades on this list often require time and filament while offering only a…
Winhanced is getting better, but I still use Xbox Mode with my Windows 11 handheld
…Ocarina of Time' s Ship of Harkinian , Twilight Princess' Dusklight , and more. Xbox Mode is also just generally far more stable and reliable than it was at launch. Though the stripped-back…
My local LLM can call Claude when it's stuck, and it changed everything about my local-first setup
…That completely changed how practical and reliable my local-first setup became. But how did I make the Claude escalation work? To make your local LLM call Claude for help, you need…
My Raspberry Pi 4 still has a job in my homelab, and it isn't Home Assistant
…The entire setup took 15 minutes without port forwarding, changing firewall rules, or tracking IP address changes. Tailscale turned out to be the right tool for reliably reaching the Pi and with…
I ran Gemma 4 (26B) on a 10-year-old-GPU, and it's reliable enough to replace the cloud
…up to Blinko , Paperless-GPT (and AI), Karakeep , VS Code, Claude Code, Open WebUI, and other FOSS applications in my arsenal. I plan to test this setup with Qwen3.6-35B-A3B…
I fixed my TV's flickering black screen with a $15 HDMI cable and a hidden menu setting
…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 You've got a perfect setup…
The gaming industry's biggest lie is about what your setup needs — here's what actually matters
…Eventually, though, most gamers come to realize that comfort, practicality, reliability, and longevity matter far more than hype alone. RGB lighting and esports buzzwords aren't the be-all and end-all…
I used Claude Code with a local LLM on Ollama, and it’s surprisingly capable for something that's free
…In March alone, Anthropic faced multiple outages, with the latest one occurring on March 26 , and when that happens, even the best cloud tools become temporarily unavailable while a local setup keeps…