4 reasons I am still using Windows 10 on my old laptop
… I don't have to wait a couple of days to make sure everything is in order for others before installing an update. Windows 11 has many pros , but reliability and updates aren't among them. …
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I used my local LLM to rebuild my workflow from scratch, and it was better than I expected
… The local AI stack I built My productivity-focused local AI stack I wanted my local AI setup to feel practical, not like a weekend experiment I’d forget about. I built the stack the same way I approach most self-hosted tools — modular, flexible, and easy to maintain. …
Your NAS doesn't need to be all-SSD, and TrueNAS proved it to me
… Weighed against the cost savings and the much higher storage capacity, it's a no-brainer and the trade-off is easy to justify. TrueNAS made me focus on reliability over raw speed Giving TrueNAS a shot pretty much changed my already unsure perspective towards switching to an all-flash NAS . …
I used Claude Code, Google Antigravity and OpenAI Codex to develop an app, and found only one worth using
… Last year, Microsoft CEO, Satya Nadella, noted that 20–30% of code in their repositories is now written by AI. Critics justifiably point to the cracks beneath the surface , questioning the reliability of this prevailing phenomenon. …
Running OpenClaw in Proxmox taught me that elegance doesn't always beat reliability
… OpenClaw has been prominent in the news recently for security concerns, but Proxmox puts the safety rails you need to protect yourself front and center. It eases the creation of VLANs for your containers and VMs, so isolating OpenClaw from the rest of my home lab was a trivial affair. …
Most people think Claude is just for coding — here's what I actually use it for
… Sign in to your XDA account Most of the Claude-related content I come across focuses on coding , which makes sense since it’s mainly aimed at coders. But Claude is a family of AI products from Anthropic, which includes Claude Code, Claude Cowork, and the chatbot Claude AI. …
4 Pixel AI features I miss every time I use another Android phone
… Although Google has contentiously done little to address hardware concerns in models since the Pixel 7, we've seen a steady stream of additions to its repertoire of AI-powered features . …
My entire homelab runs on an 8-year-old laptop most people would throw away
… For better workflow and day-to-day management, I chose Docker Compose and Portainer. Portainer made it easy to monitor, start, and stop containers with one click through a simple GUI. With this foundation, I started replacing paid services that I used regularly with self-hosted alternatives. …
Your motherboard has a 1GbE port, and adding a $15 2.5GbE PCIe card changes everything about your network
… You can edit video or browse massive photo libraries directly from the server without thumbnail lag or buffering issues. …
I replaced Claude Pro with a local 9B model for a week, and finally found out what I was paying $20 a month for
… Anthropic developed Constitutional AI CAI , a technique that trains Claude using a set of principles — a 'constitution' — to guide its responses toward being helpful, harmless, and honest. Not quite. The framework is called Constitutional AI CAI . …