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The best upgrade for my movie nights wasn't a new TV, soundbar, or streaming subscription

Jasmine Mannan Jun 11, 2026, 4:00 PM EDT Jasmine is Software and PC Hardware Author at XDA with years of tech reporting experience ranging from AI chatbots right down to gaming…

Jun 11, 2026 · Jasmine Mannan

I ditched Copilot on VS Code for this free extension, and it's miles ahead

Ayush Pande May 20, 2026, 6:00 AM EDT Ayush Pande is a PC hardware and gaming writer. When he's not working on a new article, you can find him with…

May 20, 2026 · Ayush Pande

I disabled frame generation in three AAA titles, and it proved some games are better off without it

…For other hardware, the mileage may greatly vary. Sorry Jensen, frame gen is far from a universal enhancement The silicon giants are all keen to usher gaming towards the era of neural…

May 7, 2026 · Abhinav Raj

4 things I wish someone told me before I invested $200 into a mesh Wi-Fi system

Jasmine Mannan Jun 10, 2026, 1:31 PM EDT Jasmine is Software and PC Hardware Author at XDA with years of tech reporting experience ranging from AI chatbots right down to gaming…

Jun 10, 2026 · Jasmine Mannan

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…

Apr 2, 2026 · Ayush Pande

Krita's AI plugins do what Photoshop charges $120 a year for, and the results surprised me

Ayush Pande Jun 6, 2026, 8:30 AM EDT Ayush Pande is a PC hardware and gaming writer. When he's not working on a new article, you can find him with…

Jun 6, 2026 · Ayush Pande

I stopped hitting Claude's message limit by building a local AI pipeline that does the heavy lifting

…A lifelong tech enthusiast who has built three gaming and productivity powerhouse PCs since 2018, his passion for technology keeps him closely following the semiconductor industry, from NVIDIA and AMD to ARM…

May 14, 2026 · Abhinav Raj

I ditched Docker Desktop for native containers and everything is better

Ayush Pande May 21, 2026, 6:00 AM EDT Ayush Pande is a PC hardware and gaming writer. When he's not working on a new article, you can find him with…

May 21, 2026 · Ayush Pande

The year of the Linux desktop already happened, just not on desktops

…Plus, Proton had become mature enough that by integrating it with Steam, a very large majority of PC games would be playable. Plus, this time, the hardware was a unified platform coming…

May 10, 2026 · João Carrasqueira

I use Claude Pro, Qwen 3-Coder, and Gemma 4 together, and it's the most cost-efficient AI workflow I've ever built