3 hidden Android Auto features I wish I knew about earlier
…Over time, I've learned to tweak the platform to run exactly how I want by managing notifications better, removing apps I don't use from the home screen, getting Home Assistant…
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The Android Auto feature nobody talks about that I use on every drive
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I turned this $55 Raspberry Pi into the ultimate streaming device
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What Intel Firefly actually means for Windows laptops (and why it's not just another processor)
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A used workstation costs less than a new GPU, but it pays for itself in ways gaming hardware never will
…It's a defensible purchase that I've made myself with the goal of high-refresh rate gaming, but if you're building a home lab, a new GPU is the wrong…
I've been running some of the biggest open-weight LLMs for free on Nvidia's cloud
…are the ones that arrive at a scales that doesn't fit on home hardware. A free, OpenAI-compatible endpoint serving the full-precision weights of those open models, hosted by the…
Immich finally feels good enough on my NAS that I deleted Google Photos for real this time
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Most people use Ollama or llama.cpp for local LLMs, but these are the tools I switch to when it gets serious
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I turned my old Android phone into a useful dashboard diagnostic display in just 10 minutes
…a Bluetooth OBD-II adapter and a compatible application to translate the data into something I could read. I dove back into my research and quickly found that an ELM327-compatible Bluetooth…