I turned my phone into a local LLM server, and it handles vision, voice, and tool calls
…If you try to run a Q4 or Q8 mmproj, it produces garbage output for both images and audio. BF16 costs you more memory, but on a phone with 16GB, it doesn…
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Please stop putting heatsinks on NVMe drives that never throttle
Jasmine Mannan Mar 25, 2026, 6:00 AM EDT Jasmine is Software and PC Hardware Author at XDA with years of tech reporting experience ranging from AI chatbots right down to gaming…
Your PC setup desperately needs these upgrades instead of overpriced components
…Thanks to the massive demand for memory, storage, and GPUs, it's basically impossible for the average consumer to buy a RAM kit, SSD, or graphics card. It's best to make…
I switched from ChatGPT Plus to Claude Pro, and I haven’t regretted my decision
…These apps all have their own version of an "AI overview" that does a similar thing, but instead of going and looking at each thing individually, I can click one button and…
I ignored Claude Code's subagents until I realized what I was missing
Mahnoor Faisal May 4, 2026, 1:00 PM EDT Mahnoor Faisal is a tech journalist covering AI and productivity tools with bylines at XDA , SlashGear , MakeUseOf , Laptop Mag , and Android Police . She…
No one wants GPUs with 8GB of VRAM, but here's why they're not going anywhere
…It started as a half-baked technology that boosted framerates at the cost of visual accuracy. With time, however, upscaling has evolved into a highly refined AI-powered algorithm that provides native…
Better audio and a decent chair do more for gaming than 100 extra FPS
Jasmine Mannan Apr 30, 2026, 7:00 PM EDT Jasmine is Software and PC Hardware Author at XDA with years of tech reporting experience ranging from AI chatbots right down to gaming…
This $70 mouse has all of the features of a $200 mouse and the battery lasts me three months
Jasmine Mannan Apr 18, 2026, 3:30 PM EDT Jasmine is Software and PC Hardware Author at XDA with years of tech reporting experience ranging from AI chatbots right down to gaming…
I used Claude Code, Google Antigravity, and Codex for a month and I have a clear winner for you
…Anthropic is primarily an AI safety and research company. Its founding mission is rooted in making AI that is safe and understandable, which is why safety-focused training methods like Constitutional AI…
I turned an old Android phone into a home server, and it’s more useful than my Raspberry Pi
Jasmine Mannan Apr 21, 2026, 8:00 PM EDT Jasmine is Software and PC Hardware Author at XDA with years of tech reporting experience ranging from AI chatbots right down to gaming…