…The hardware is real, and there are ways to make it work for local AI, but the experience getting there makes it harder than it should be. I've tested local LLMs…
…Sign in to your XDA account I have always been the designated tech-explainer in my local hardware hobbyist community. We gather on Discord servers, swapping tips on everything from soldering temperatures…
…It costs between $10 and $20 in hardware, and it shows me print progress, temperatures, fan speeds, AMS status, and more across four swipeable pages. It can be a little fiddly to…
…He's written for Macworld , Tom's Hardware , groovyPost , The Mac Observer , and more before beginning here at XDA. Sign in to your XDA account Summary M2 Color Craft Laser packs CMYK…
Jasmine Mannan Apr 21, 2026, 8:00 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…
…What you get in return is room to grow, access to enterprise storage at hobbyist prices, and the clean disk passthrough that serious home lab storage depends on.
…Local models are no longer just experimental companions for hobbyists. They are becoming strong enough for serious agentic workflows. In agentic terminal benchmarks, compact open models are now competitive with leading cloud…
…Are these hobbyist programmers who have a small hardware business on the side or an $400 billion AI hardware giant? #18 You're welcome RDNA 3 ;) I do find it weird AMD…
…These aren't just hobbyist projects; they are the backbone of my daily productivity. By moving away from "black box" services and hosting my own infrastructure, I’ve managed to kill the…
…Principally, there’s hardware-accelerated transcoding, which lets your server leverage CPU or GPU media engines (such as Intel Quick Sync or Nvidia GPUs) to convert massive 4K files on the fly…