SteamOS finally let me make my own living room console, and the Steam Machine stopped making sense

Save your money

My local LLM can call every tool that Claude can, except it runs on my own hardware

Local models are trained on tool calling these days, and they can be pretty good at it, too.

I replaced every online video editor with one self-hosted app on my NAS

Reframe handles every video edit I need without subscriptions, watermarks, or uploading to the cloud.

3 ways I'm making the most of Claude's Fable 5 while it's still on the house (and it has nothing to do with coding)

Fable is leaving, but paying for the API might be worth it anyway

The best yearly GPU upgrades are free, and that's a problem for gamers

That big, beefy new GPU isn't the product you're buying anymore

I used NotebookLM's code execution and I wasn't ready for how well it went

Right feature, right home, finally

Windows 11 will soon let you recover your PC from the cloud, and yes, it includes the drivers

Here's hoping it arrives in due time.

Someone made an ESP32 passwordless fingerprint unlocker, and you can make one at home

It's very cute.

Framework proved repairable laptops can work, but almost nobody is willing to buy one

The company proved that there's a demand for modular laptops, but it's not nearly enough

Ollama is the easiest way to start local LLMs, but these 6 alternatives are also worth trying

Beyond Ollama - these LLM tools are worth switching to, depending on what you actually need.