Your old phone is a better home server than a Raspberry Pi
Jasmine Mannan Apr 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…
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Your USB-C port might be far slower than you think, and the label usually won’t tell you
Jasmine Mannan Mar 23, 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…
Native 4K was supposed to be the endgame, but upscaling changed that
Hamlin Rozario Mar 20, 2026, 2:00 PM EDT Hamlin has been in the tech field for over seven years. Since 2017, his work has appeared on MakeUseOf , OSXDaily, Beebom, MashTips, and…
Radeon is still the best choice for an HTPC GPU, and the reason has nothing to do with performance
…He also competed in semi-pro Counter-Strike for 8 years, making him intimately familiar with everything to do with peripherals. Sign in to your XDA account When used for gaming, a…
I tried replacing Claude with Gemini, ChatGPT, and Perplexity for a month – here's the only one worth paying for
…He has covered evergreen content on mobile devices and computers for multiple publications over the last six years. You can find his work on AndroidPolice, GuidingTech and TechWiser. Whether it’s demystifying…
Your motherboard's worst PCIe slot might be the most useful one in your build
Tanveer Singh May 7, 2026, 2:00 PM EDT After a 7-year corporate stint, Tanveer found his love for writing and tech too much to resist. An MBA in Marketing and…
AMD keeps following Nvidia's playbook, and it's setting back Radeon years of progress
…Related 12 years ago, I left AMD for NVIDIA, and AMD has never given me a reason to come back NVIDIA's ecosystem became about much more than silicon, years ago. The…
I replaced my Google TV remote with a $25 ESP32 display, and it controls Home Assistant too
Adam Conway May 20, 2026, 11:00 AM EDT I’m Adam Conway, an Irish technology fanatic with a BSc in Computer Science and I'm XDA’s Lead Technical Editor. My…
Don't wait for Nvidia GPU prices to drop — this might actually be the best time to buy
…indefinitely and the RTX 60-series being expected to launch in 2027, we have a gap year in GPU releases for Nvidia, and this is the perfect opportunity to buy into a…
I added this one thing to my Claude-Obsidian setup, and my wikilinks finally stopped breaking
…Related I replaced Claude Pro with a local 9B model for a week, and finally found out what I was paying $20 a month for The gap was smaller than I expected…