You're using your gaming PC wrong if you're still ignoring these 5 tweaks
…Your drive will still boot normally, but since you're not in UEFI mode, you'll miss out on key features like Secure Boot and Resizable BAR . Secure Boot is essential for…
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I wired my house with fiber instead of Cat6, and the installation was actually easier than I expected
…Sign in to your XDA account When I first looked at sorting out my new home's network, I knew I needed to use some fiber. I couldn't do the usual…
I tried Cursor, Claude Code, and Google Antigravity for a month and I have a clear winner for you
…most documented risks of heavy AI coding assistant use is skill atrophy and reduced critical review — developers may begin to trust AI output too readily, allowing subtle logical or security bugs to…
Single-maintainer open source is a ticking time bomb, and Booklore just detonated
…Sign in to your XDA account Booklore, a self-hosted digital library platform with over 10,000 GitHub stars and thousands of daily users, ceased to exist overnight. The GitHub repository, Discord…
I wrote a script to run Claude Code with my local LLM, and skipping the cloud has never been easier
…Sign in to your XDA account Claude Code is one of the best agentic coding harnesses out there right now, and for good reason. It understands your codebase, calls tools, edits files…
I blocked my devices from bypassing my DNS server with one firewall rule
…Sign in to your XDA account Picture this, if you will. You've spent countless hours learning all there is for a beginner to know about OPNsense , or some other custom firewall…
I built a perfectly segmented home network, then spent six months poking holes back through it
…His expertise broadly covers computers, smartphones, game consoles, headphones, smart home products, browsers, and apps. Sign in to your XDA account The weekend when I made a segmented home network live using…
I ditched PC Manager for Fluent Cleaner after it found more junk to remove
…Sign in to your XDA account Windows OS cleaners earned a bad name for themselves when they tried acting like a one-stop shop. The tools tried to remove unused registry entries…
Replacing paid productivity apps with a self-hosted setup helped me save money, but I had to make some compromises
…Sign in to your XDA account As a hardcore member of the FOSS faction, I’ve migrated almost all essential services from cloud platforms to a self-hosted setup, and there were…
I switched from Claude Code to Codex for a week, and the trade-offs surprised me
…task Correct! By default, Codex executes tasks inside a network-disabled sandbox, which significantly reduces security risks when running autonomous code. This isolation means it cannot make unexpected outbound requests, a meaningful…