Used enterprise workstations are the home lab upgrade everyone overlooks
…disk shelf, a 10GbE NIC, a couple of NVMe drives, and maybe a GPU for transcoding or local AI inference. A Precision T5820 or Z4 G4 running a Xeon W-2100 series…
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I've been running some of the biggest open-weight LLMs for free on Nvidia's cloud
…a smaller curated set on its own LPU silicon at speeds most GPU stacks struggle to match, and Together AI has been running an open-model API for years. What Nvidia has…
Local LLMs are actually good now, and I wasted months not realizing it
…I definitely didn't get it with local AI in mind because that wasn't even on my radar. It runs local LLMs fine. I can push a 20B model with GPU…
I tested Qwen3 Coder Next against four other local AI coding models, and the gap was embarrassing
…Sign in to your XDA account Local AI coding models have been growing in popularity, and for good reason. Between Qwen3 Coder Next, Devstral 2, gpt-oss-120b, and a wave of…
HP's cyberboard looked revolutionary until I actually used it
…HP EliteBoard G1a 7.5 /10 CPU AMD Ryzen AI 7 350 PRO, AMD Ryzen AI 5 340 PRO, AMD Ryzen AI 5 330 Graphics AMD Radeon 860M, 840M, 820M (depending on…
The Windows Terminal is quietly becoming the best terminal on any OS
…I switch the profile when I want to add a new AI model, manage the Docker container, and the system. Since WSL supports GPU passthrough, using it for AI tasks is child…
Cal.com just went closed source over AI, but AI is exactly why open source still wins
…The most common response to the Cal.com statement was essentially to say "if AI is so good at finding bugs in your code, run AI on your code first," and while…
Samsung is killing off SATA SSDs, and your next storage upgrade just got a lot more expensive
Jasmine Mannan Mar 22, 2026, 10:00 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…
I don't need Claude, this is the local LLM I run on my NAS that powers my smart home
…Anthropic is primarily an AI safety and research company. Its founding mission is rooted in making AI that is safe and understandable, which is why safety-focused training methods like Constitutional AI…
I used Claude Code with a local LLM on Ollama, and it’s surprisingly capable for something that's free
…Then point Claude Code at your local Ollama server instead of Anthropic's API by setting the environment variables. npm install -g @anthropic-ai/claude-code To start using Claude Code with…