My entire homelab runs on an 8-year-old laptop most people would throw away
…Then I thought of giving my 8-year-old Dell laptop, which was lying around, a try before spending on new hardware. Turns out the hardware depends entirely on the use case…
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Right now, we are in a structural shortage that probably won't see relief for a good couple of years. As a result, so much consumer hardware feels like it's vanishing. With budget gaming PCs disappearing, Nvidia's Super Series potentially in jeopardy, and the Steam Machine currently in limbo too. The silver lining of all of this is that this crisis might force a software revolution where developers have to finally stop being lazy with RAM optimization. For now, the hardware we want is sitting on a shelf in a designer's drawer, waiting for the prices to drop to make it accessible for the averag
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I ditched NotebookLM for Claude Projects and I’m not going back
…Next, I pushed them a bit on hardware and asked for ideas to redesign our website’s homepage based on our brand documents. NotebookLM did an okayish job. It gave me a…
My TV display felt dull, so I changed these settings to make the colors actually pop
…the display from pushing the vibrant, high-nit highlights it was built to deliver. Also, Android TV is highly software-driven, and manufacturers love to flex their AI processing chips right out…
4 key situations where DLSS 5 might actually make games look better
…It could be the reason that all games end up looking the same five years from now, and it also doesn't run all that well without bleeding-edge hardware in its…
Ollama is still the easiest way to start local LLMs, but it's the worst way to keep running them
…Sign in to your XDA account If you've ever looked into running AI models on your own hardware, you've almost certainly come across Ollama. It's the default recommendation in…
SteamOS 3.9 is the closest thing to a perfect desktop Linux I've ever used
…into Valve’s hardware ecosystem. I was looking for a better non-Windows way to play the games I actually care about on my Geekom Ryzen 9 AI mini PC. SteamOS 3…
A five-year-old GPU can handle modern games better than you think
…units or AI cores that its modern-day equivalent boasts. However, we've now moved into an era of rendering where software suites are more important than raw hardware, which makes older…
I added these MCP servers to my local LLM stack, and one of them replaces a $249 paid tool
…Adding an MCP server to your stack is the closest thing the AI world has to installing a browser extension. You point your model at it, the model gets new capabilities, and…
High-VRAM GPUs aren't the future of local AI — unified memory and Mixture of Experts models are
…Sign in to your XDA account If you've spent any time around local AI, you've absorbed the same rule of thumb everyone else has: more VRAM is better, and a…
I turned my phone into a local LLM server, and it handles vision, voice, and tool calls
…Sign in to your XDA account Running a local LLM has typically required you to either have some pretty beefy hardware, or to buy dedicated hardware if you didn't have it…