Your old phone is a better home server than a Raspberry Pi
Jasmine Mannan Apr 6, 2026, 11:00 AM EDT Jasmine is Software and PC Hardware Author at XDA with years of tech reporting experience ranging from AI chatbots right down to gaming…
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4 one-minute changes you can make to your PC that will improve its performance
…Windows has a long-running habit of defaulting high-refresh monitors to 60 Hz after driver updates, display swaps, or cable changes, and a lot of people are running 144 Hz or…
I bought the RX 9070 XT for FSR 4, but the games I actually play don't support it
…The game still ships with FSR 2 and DLSS 2.2.10, both implementations Rockstar hasn't updated in years. There's no FSR 3.1 in the build, so the override…
I connected Claude Code to my home server through MCP, and now I manage my entire lab by talking to it
…Jellyfin, Immich, and Nextcloud handled media, photos, and file services. Pi-hole, Cloudflared, and Omada Controller handled the network and DNS. Uptime Kuma, Beszel, and Speedtest Tracker covered monitoring and observability. The…
I ditched LM Studio for llama.cpp, and my local LLM doesn't feel like a downgrade anymore
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I turned an old Android phone into a home server, and it’s more useful than my Raspberry Pi
Jasmine Mannan Apr 21, 2026, 8:00 PM EDT Jasmine is Software and PC Hardware Author at XDA with years of tech reporting experience ranging from AI chatbots right down to gaming…
I tried VS Code, Google Antigravity, and Claude Code for a month and one clearly dominated
…However, it’s a resource hog, and I would love to see Google focusing on performance in future updates. Google Antigravity Google Antigravity is one of the best AI-powered IDEs out…
Your 8GB GPU isn't as doomed as everyone says, and Nvidia just proved it
…developers are reluctant to invest in integration until the technology works broadly across hardware, and hardware adoption needs developer support to justify itself. Related We have reached the GPU ceiling, and AI…
I turned my Android phone into a laptop replacement, and it's more productive than I expected
…more demanding once local, cloud, and network storage all sit inside one workflow. You can always use advanced file managers like AnExplorer, Solid Explorer, MiXplorer, and Filex AI. They support network protocols…
I stopped trying to replace my Nvidia Shield and built something better instead
…Be it the usuals, like Netflix, Prime Video, and YouTube, they all open quickly, get regular updates, and don't require me to worry about system storage, background services, and more. There…