I stopped recommending the 3GB Raspberry Pi 4, and here's why
…With the April 2026 price increase, the 4GB Pi 4 model costs $100 (launch price $55). The 2GB variant costs $55 (launch price $45). The new 3GB variant sits between them at…
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I stopped using my Steam Deck as just a handheld after discovering Desktop Mode
Jasmine Mannan Jun 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…
Most people use Ollama or llama.cpp for local LLMs, but these are the tools I switch to when it gets serious
…llama.cpp sits underneath a huge amount of the local AI world too, especially if you're using GGUF models, so neither one is going away. The problem is that the easy…
I ditched Claude Pro for free tools for a week — and one of them had no right being this good
…Google Gemini See at Google Gemini LibreChat was the open-source wild card One interface, any model, on your server LibreChat's appeal is less about the AI and more about the…
I tested my local LLM across 4 different tools, and only one actually unleashed its potential
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Claude Code is the best AI coding tool I've used, and I’m not entirely sure if I can recommend it
Mahnoor Faisal May 26, 2026, 3:00 PM EDT Mahnoor Faisal is a tech journalist covering AI and productivity tools with bylines at XDA , SlashGear , MakeUseOf , Laptop Mag , and Android Police . She…
Ollama is still the easiest way to start local LLMs, but it's the worst way to keep running them
…s cloud servers B To run large language models locally on your own hardware C To fine-tune models using cloud GPU clusters D To create a marketplace for AI model licensing…
Home Assistant finally has an AI tool worth the complexity, if you can get past the onboarding
…After teaching university English and computer science for a few years, Jeff launched his writing career . He's written for Macworld , Tom's Hardware , groovyPost , The Mac Observer , and more before beginning…
IPv8 looked like a real plan to fix the internet, but it was one man, an AI chatbot, and a GoFundMe page
…For what it's worth, AI-detection tools did flag large chunks of the document as likely machine-written, but so-called "AI detectors" are notoriously unreliable and shouldn't be used…
Claude's scheduled tasks finally fixed what ChatGPT, Gemini, and every other AI tool got wrong
…Anthropic launched its own take on scheduled automation a few weeks ago, and it's the first time I've felt like AI can genuinely help you automate some of the repetitive…