I replaced NotebookLM with a local LLM, and the difference is night and day
…Sign in to your XDA account NotebookLM is genuinely one of the better AI tools I use , and I’ve been on it long enough to have a real opinion on it…
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I ran local LLMs on Intel's cheapest iGPU, and the results were surprisingly decent
4d agoYour old gaming PC is overkill for a home server, and that's exactly why it's perfect
5d agoMy entire home lab cost less than a new GPU, and it does more for me too
1w agoHigh-VRAM GPUs aren't the future of local AI — unified memory and Mixture of Experts models are
1w agoI stopped using motion sensors after my smart home learned to read my PC's state
Jasmine Mannan May 30, 2026, 8:00 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…
SteamOS couldn’t revive my old GPU, so I went with this non-Bazzite distro instead
…Related Nvidia stopped supporting my GPU, so I started self-hosting LLMs with it I self-support my gpu now because Nvidia won't SteamOS just doesn’t mesh well with my…
This 18-year-old's free Lightroom replacement blows Darktable's UX out of the water
…I can hook the editor directly into a local Stable Diffusion server running on personal hardware, where I'd have complete control of the AI models, their privacy, and delivery latency. Image…
You need these 6 self-hosted tools if you value your privacy
…When he's not working on a new article, you can find him with his head stuck inside a PC or tinkering with a server operating system. Besides computing, his interests include…
My homelab needed a lightweight dashboard, so I had Claude and a local LLM race to build it
…In my case, I run my homelab server on a repurposed desktop, and I'm already running more than 17 Docker containers across seven services. In other words, the server was already…
Your motherboard has a 1GbE port, and adding a $15 2.5GbE PCIe card changes everything about your network
Jasmine Mannan Apr 1, 2026, 8:00 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…
My local LLM can call Claude when it's stuck, and it changed everything about my local-first setup
…You can run an AI model on your laptop or your own server and get effectively unlimited access without worrying about usage limits, but that idea starts to break down once you…
I built an offline research system, and cloud AI doesn't feel necessary anymore
…Cloud AI requires transmitting sensitive data to third-party servers, which raises concerns about things like potential unauthorized access and data residency issues, especially concerning health and financial information. This is why…
My RTX 5090 can't keep up with Apple Silicon on the biggest local LLMs, and I hate to admit it
…run local AI. But it's pretty funny that Apple, somewhat accidentally, settled on a memory architecture that positioned it as a better alternative to the best consumer GPUs in the world…