…An MBA in Marketing and the owner of a PC building business, he writes on PC hardware, technology, and Windows. When not scouring the web for ideas, he can be found building…
…Home Assistant gives me the freedom to buy outside one brand’s ecosystem, but it doesn’t magically turn bad hardware into good hardware. Now I treat cheap devices as experiments first…
…He's written for Macworld , Tom's Hardware , groovyPost , The Mac Observer , and more before beginning here at XDA. Sign in to your XDA account Remote 3D printing always sounded better in…
…Sign in to your XDA account As corporations retire their hardware in favor of newer stuff, all of that older hardware hits the secondary market every three to five years or so…
Rich Edmonds May 18, 2026, 11:30 AM EDT Richard is the PC Hardware Lead at XDA and has been covering the technology industry for almost two decades. He's been building…
…very real hardware limitation Your router isn't a NAS The performance ceiling on router USB storage is low, and it's low for hardware reasons that firmware updates won't fix…
…Protect yourself from battery bloat It will save your hardware in the long run When you use an old phone as an accessory on your home server, there's obviously a major…
…of people who had already updated, that was it. The door was closed. The scene needed something new, something that didn't depend on hardware accessories or ancient firmware versions, and it…
…It's useful when you need to buy an accessory you forgot to buy with the phone. I bought the charging adapter because manufacturers don't include them with the phone. But…
…Even on a flagship phone, updating a spreadsheet takes longer than it should because the interface was never designed for this kind of work. Even if you have a foldable phone with…