I stopped paying Heroku for my app deployments after discovering this self-hosted alternative
… Besides computing, his interests include spending hours in long RPGs, yelling at his friends in co-op games, and practicing guitar. …
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Home Assistant finally replaced Google Home when I stopped trusting the cloud with my smart home
… A weekend’s investment has a long-term payoff. After all, Gemini for Home is a promise. Home Assistant’s local voice pipeline is a product. …
Nvidia's DLSS still has the edge over AMD's FSR, and it might never change
… Both of these games lean heavily on Nvidia's ray tracing stack, with full path tracing pipelines optimized around RTX hardware. …
Nvidia just solved their VRAM problem, but not by giving out more VRAM
… This is a new technology that developers have to integrate into their pipelines manually. That means we'll see the benefits of NTC only in future games, or in the rare few games which may be updated to implement NTC instead of traditional texturing. …
I use this local AI tool to turn boring documents into cool narrations
… Ebook2Audiobook also has a dedicated web UI, so I don’t have to run long terminal commands just to switch the text-to-speech engine or model presets. In fact, the XTTS engine includes a bunch of audio presets, including video game characters, but it also lets me add custom HuggingFace models. …
My self-hosted LLMs are a lot more than just a chat replacement – here's how they boost my productivity
… Besides computing, his interests include spending hours in long RPGs, yelling at his friends in co-op games, and practicing guitar. …
No one wants GPUs with 8GB of VRAM, but here's why they're not going anywhere
… Sure, countless gamers don't daily AAA titles, but the era of 8GB VRAM should have ended long ago. …
DLSS has turned buying a GPU into analyzing different software tiers, and I can't keep up
… Related You may not like them, but AI upscalers are currently saving PC gaming DLSS is playing a large part in why old hardware is still capable right now Buying a GPU in 2026 feels like predicting the future Raw performance no longer tells the full story While buying a new GPU today, performance n… …
I connected my local LLM to Home Assistant through MCP, and now my smart home manages itself
… Besides computing, his interests include spending hours in long RPGs, yelling at his friends in co-op games, and practicing guitar. …
Your old GPU isn't just slow — it has worse bottlenecks than you think
… Related 5 BIOS/UEFI settings I always tweak for better performance A few BIOS tweaks can go a long way. No hardware for mesh shaders Left for dead Mesh shaders, introduced in DirectX 12 and Vulkan, fundamentally changed how the graphics pipeline worked in games. …