My monitor's built-in USB hub was the desk upgrade I never knew I had
…Sign in to your XDA account When we talk of desk upgrades , what usually comes to mind is a monitor arm, cable management tray, or monitor light bar. You might even include…
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Running Claude Code locally saved me money, but that wasn't even the real win
…That's something that can be done on 4B models running on your CPU, or even on your smartphone. Model diversity also makes for a more interesting field. Reasoning models can "think…
Cheap enterprise networking gear exposes the flaws in expensive consumer hardware
…Since enterprise routers and switches are built to last, you can confidently buy used models from eBay for your home network. An 8-port, 10G Base-T managed switch on Amazon costs…
SSD prices aren't coming down anytime soon, but used enterprise SSDs could be the answer you're looking for
…With brands exiting the segment altogether and indicating things might not improve until 2028, those building a new PC or upgrading their storage have been left in the lurch. In this scenario…
I ditched Claude Code for Perplexity, then realized I needed both all along
…See at Perplexity Multi-model workflows are the way to go One model isn't enough for every task I've come to realize that one model isn't enough for every…
Modern projectors have a bigger problem than lamp life, and nobody's talking about it
…The color wheel may have survived even on the mid-range models, but they're now eating into the sophisticated, silicon-heavy smart TV market that dominates living rooms. To facilitate this…
My self-hosted LLMs are a lot more than just a chat replacement – here's how they boost my productivity
…But after testing all sorts of models on my workstation nodes and pairing them with the self-hosted FOSS utilities in my home lab, I’ve learned that local models can become…
I’d do these 5 things differently if I started self-hosting LLMs today
…I would focus on keeping just a few reliable models. Most daily tasks don’t need ten different models. One fast model for quick tasks, one stronger model for deeper thinking, and…
I added one tool to my local LLM setup, and it finally stopped making things up
…Upgrading my local model with a simple tool Adding Brave Search MCP to my local LLM didn’t completely transform it into a perfect system, but it solved one of its biggest…
I let two local LLMs fight over how to optimize a Linux VM, and they destroyed it instead
…tell either model the VM was disposable, but Qwen, to my surprise, took this as encouragement. It started with the standard "make my PC fast" routine: disable unattended-upgrades, replace swap with…