I learned the hard way to never spin down your NAS hard drives
Karandeep Singh Jun 19, 2026, 9:30 AM EDT I am a Senior Author at XDA with a decade of experience covering consumer tech. I care more about the impact of technology…
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Microsoft should be terrified of SteamOS, even if Windows owns the Steam charts
…Samarveer holds a deep appreciation of gaming, and considers the platform to be the most immersive and impactful across all media. He can be found engaging with gaming communities online, always ready…
I was buying motherboards all wrong — until I checked these specs
…It felt like one of those things that would just do its job if there were a few ports. At first, everything seemed okay. But as I plugged in more devices, I…
Linux on the desktop isn't winning, but Linux on my handheld already has
…His MSc dissertation explored how artificial intelligence will reshape the future of work, reflecting his curiosity about the wider social impact of emerging technologies. Sign in to your XDA account The Linux…
I found out firsthand that some USB cables are too long for their own good
…Copper is its own worst enemy The impact of internal resistance Cables fail to do their sole jobs — power and data transfer — solely because of the materials inside. While copper is an…
Windows 95 changed computing forever, and the Virtual OS Museum is the best way to relive it
…host, so performance using these machines isn't going to be great, but gets the job done for playing around with these releases. Windows was completely different in the beginning What's…
I split my coding work between Claude, Qwen3-Coder and Gemma 4, and it costs less than paying for one subscription
…His MSc dissertation explored how artificial intelligence will reshape the future of work, reflecting his curiosity about the wider social impact of emerging technologies. Sign in to your XDA account Large language…
Lossless Scaling works with every game, and it's the DLSS alternative I actually use
…But using Lossless Scaling (using the LS1 upscaler) from the base 1280x800 resolution, I was getting between 30FPS and 50FPS, and the game felt much smoother, with minimal impact to the perceived…
Android Auto won't give me an equalizer, so I use this free app instead
…Adjusting these does the job, but the lack of granularity ruins nuances like vocal clarity when the bass bleeds into the mids. I prefer setting the car EQ entirely to the Flat…
The best GPU I ever used wasn't the most expensive one
…You'd think the most powerful and expensive graphics card I've ever used would be the "best" one, right? Well, if I rank all of them based on their impact on…