Most Proxmox setups fail the same way, and you won't know until it's too late
Jeff Butts May 5, 2026, 5:30 PM EDT Jeff's been involved in the IT industry since before the Internet and spent more than 20 years working in technical support, system…
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Nvidia's RTX Spark is already here under a different name, and I ran Cyberpunk at 1440p on it
…a 20-core Arm CPU, a Blackwell GPU with the same 6,144 CUDA-core count as an RTX 5070, and up to 128GB of unified memory. However, the RTX Spark isn…
I gave my gaming PC and phone the same local LLM tasks, and only one of them is still in my daily rotation
…Related I replaced Claude Pro with a local 9B model for a week, and finally found out what I was paying $20 a month for The gap was smaller than I expected…
I downgraded to a decade-old GPU for a week, and the results surprised me
…He also competed in semi-pro Counter-Strike for 8 years, making him intimately familiar with everything to do with peripherals. Sign in to your XDA account Both in my articles, and…
I stopped checking my home lab backups manually after Claude Code helped me build these checks
Jeff Butts Jun 13, 2026, 6:01 PM EDT Jeff's been involved in the IT industry since before the Internet and spent more than 20 years working in technical support, system…
Wine has been translating Windows games to Linux since 1993, but Proton is what made it effortless
…For years, the best gaming experience lived in forks and patches that most users never knew about. That gap has been shrinking more and more over the years, and it's because…
I tested 3 tiny local LLMs for everyday work, and only one of them impressed me
…Related I replaced Claude Pro with a local 9B model for a week, and finally found out what I was paying $20 a month for The gap was smaller than I expected…
I stopped carrying a laptop after trying Android's desktop mode
…The gap narrows every year, but heavy creative professional workflows remain a sticking point for Android as a laptop replacement. 05 / 8 DeX Starting with which Galaxy generation did Samsung allow DeX…
Claude is still the best agentic coding tool, but Anthropic's tightening grip is the best argument yet for going local
…There are plenty of developers I know who use it daily, and Anthropic has spent the last year and a half giving plenty of reasons for that confidence. Opus 4.7 just…
I run a 24GB GPU instead of paying for Claude or Codex, and Qwen 3.6 keeps up more than I expected
…My RTX 5090 was paid for over a year ago, and the enjoyment I've gotten since then from playing games at high resolutions and refresh rates is undeniable. I've paid…