Setting up RetroArch on my iPhone turned it into the perfect gaming handheld
…Between my PS5 Pro, my RTX 4070 Ti-powered PC, and my PS5 Portal , I already have access to every modern experience I care about. Even my PC gaming has slowly drifted…
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My $3000 Windows PC felt broken until I disabled these 4 things
…Now a Computing Writer at XDA, Shekhar leverages his deep background in NAS, storage solutions, and PC internals to help readers master their tech. Sign in to your XDA account Even on…
Linux has quietly become more forward-thinking than Windows, and these 6 features prove it
…is the ability to run a full desktop operating system directly from a USB drive without installing anything onto the PC itself. As someone who has tried and failed to run an…
Wine has been translating Windows games to Linux since 1993, but Proton is what made it effortless
…The biggest addition Proton brought was DXVK, a Vulkan-based translation layer for Direct3D 9, 10, and 11. Direct3D is Windows's graphics API, and most PC games use it exclusively. Direct3D…
I turned my old Android phone into a useful dashboard diagnostic display in just 10 minutes
…His curiosity about how things work sparked an intrest in building PCs and taking apart tech gadged to understand them better. Beyond that, he enjoys experimenting with new gadgets as an enthusisast…
I switched to Linux for unconventional reasons, and now I can't go back
Ayush Pande Apr 2, 2026, 2:30 PM EDT Ayush Pande is a PC hardware and gaming writer. When he's not working on a new article, you can find him with…
I turned my partner's old laptop into a perfectly curated retro emulation machine for free
…While I might be happy to juggle several emulators in different folders and directories on my own PC, she won't have to think about cores or configurations. Everything is set up…
This free self-hosted app turned my Jellyfin server into a YouTube archive overnight
…the new directories I’d created for Pinchflat. Then, I ran docker compose up -d to get Pinchflat up and running, before using the VM’s IP address and port 8945 to…
I asked Claude to improve my home lab and it was wild
…copied and pasted the contents of my Docker Compose files from my Windows PC, laptop, and MacBook directly into the chat. I told Claude exactly what I had: a mix of three…
My homelab needed a lightweight dashboard, so I had Claude and a local LLM race to build it
…My PC has an RTX 4070 Ti and 32GB RAM. Using the default LM Studio chat won’t do justice since Claude Code can read and write files from the directory itself…