I tested 7 local LLMs on my NAS for smart home automation, and only one didn't fall apart

And it made my automations a lot better.

Ring charges $20 a month for features that come free on a $40 Tapo doorbell

Not only do I no longer have to pay monthly fees, the hardware cost was lower too.

I paired a local LLM with Obsidian on my phone, and it's the productivity boost I didn't expect

A mobile AI stack that works even when the signal doesn't

Over half of PC gamers are still on 1080p in 2026, and the reason isn't the monitors

The Steam Hardware Survey continues to report the death of PC gaming

I used Lossless Scaling on retro emulators, and it fixed the one thing emulation couldn't solve

I knew Lossless Scaling was great for PC games, but I didn't think it could improve emulators too. Turns out I was wrong.

AstrOS, a distro that combines the best of Arch, COSMIC, and immutability, enters beta

You'll need a TPM 2.0 CPU for this one

Windows has been quietly wearing out your SSD, and the fix takes one setting

Microsoft wouldn't take care of my storage, so I will

Despite price hikes, PS5s "are more affordable" than high-end gaming PCs, says Sony's CFO

They're not exactly wrong.

AMD promised AM5 support until 2029, and the memory crisis might not let it stop there

AM5 is now the past, present, and apparently, the future for consumer PCs

I moved half my work to Haiku + Sonnet and couldn't tell the difference for most of it

It's me, hi, I'm the problem, it's me