I ditched Adobe's $55 monthly fee for three free tools that actually work faster
…audio using free AI diffusion models and other AI tools ComfyUI Are you willing to pay the hardware tax? To run these tools, you need a decent GPU with at least 8GB…
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I added these MCP servers to my local LLM stack, and one of them replaces a $249 paid tool
…Adding an MCP server to your stack is the closest thing the AI world has to installing a browser extension. You point your model at it, the model gets new capabilities, and…
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…
These old gaming CPUs are costing you frames you didn't know you were losing
…The explosive growth of agentic AI may be triggering a massive CPU shortage. With chipmakers prioritizing high-margin server processors to meet enterprise demand, desktop supplies are dwindling, and signs of this…
I 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…