I extended my Wi-Fi network with this cheap $10 ESP32
… Real-world performance and caveats to consider You get what you pay for After running this experiment for a fortnight, the improvement was fairly noticeable. …
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I used Claude to create a campaign and my D&D sessions have never run smoother
… Claude's errors and missing pieces Having Claude regenerate rewards for each encounter Reviewing Claude’s initial response to my prompt, I noticed that it claimed to have a fourth section, laying out rewards and loot tables, which I could not locate. …
Intel's gaming handhelds went from a punchline to rivaling AMD, and the chip is only half the reason
… Older games built on DirectX 9 and DirectX 11 ran badly or didn't run at all, performance swung wildly from one title to the next, and crashes were common enough that reviewers warned people off. …
I turned this $55 Raspberry Pi into the ultimate streaming device
… He has written news, features, and gadget reviews for national technology media publications. …
I replaced my desktop with a Snapdragon X2 Plus laptop, and the only thing I missed was the GPU
… About this review: Lenovo loaned XDA the IdeaPad Slim 5x used in this review, and had no input into its contents. …
I stopped trusting cloud AI with my personal files, and switched to this local setup instead
… It's still Google infrastructure though, so the same caveats apply - meaning, your data is on their remote servers and may be subject to internal policies, backups, legal holds, or something else. …
I ran the same prompts through Claude and my local LLM, and the results weren't what I expected
… Review the course you created. …
I tried multi-color 3D printing with Elegoo's AMS-like CANVAS module - here's how it went
… Besides some minor warping in a Smurf-Terminator hybrid model and minor over-extrusion in a Christmas ornament part of which was my fault for not noticing the weird textures in the slicer preview , every model came out just fine – with some, like the multicolor Baby Dragon by EndK7 and Fokobot from… …
Valve isn't ditching Windows or x86, but it's quietly making both optional
… The performance isn't native, as you'd expect, but it's still surprisingly good. …
Cal.com just went closed source over AI, but AI is exactly why open source still wins
… My Bachelor’s thesis was conducted on the viability of benchmarking the non-functional elements of Android apps and smartphones such as performance, and I’ve been working in the tech industry in some way or another since 2017. …