It's no secret that I love E Ink, both for reading and for note-taking. I'd love to use it everywhere, but E Ink monitors are sadly expensive and only designed by a few small companies. I've also discovered that I love self-hosting services on Proxmox, which I didn't expect. The one thing I don't like about self-hosting is the noticeable jump in my electricity bill, but E Ink can help with that.

Let's be real. If you're here reading XDA-Developers, you have at least a passing interest in self-hosting. It can be exciting when you first get started with it. But more than that, it gives you a lot of satisfaction knowing that your software is entirely in your control, on your hardware. That also means that if something goes wrong, you have to fix it.

CarPlay is an often-overlooked feature on the iPhone. Sure, people use it as a medium to connect their devices to their cars, but there are a lot of apps that can improve the experience beyond the most common picks like Spotify and Maps.

When I went hands-on with Samsung's Galaxy Z TriFold a few weeks ago, I walked away confused but impressed with its wild design. Two hinges? A sprawling interior screen? Why can't I use it half-folded (I still really don't understand that design decision). Who is this phone even for? At the same time, I also expected the device to cost a lot of money, and right on cue, the TriFold's reported price tag has appeared.

X is facing an investigation from the European Commission over the sexualized deepfakes generated by its Grok AI chatbot. In its announcement, the Commission says it will evaluate whether X "properly assessed and mitigated risks" associated with Grok's image-generating capabilities in the EU, as reported earlier by The New York Times.Advocacy groups and lawmakers from around the world have raised the alarm on Grok's AI image editing feature after it began complying with requests to generate sexualized images of women and minors on the platform. X later paywalled the ability to edit images in public replies to posts, but everyone can still …Read the full story at The Verge.

Considering all the ports, sockets, and slots in server rigs, there’s a lot of cool paraphernalia you can add to your experimentation machine. You’ve got HBA cards, NICs, spare GPUs, extra HDDs, and port expansion adapters – and the upgrade options open up even more once you start dabbling in enterprise-tier components.

For the longest time in PC gaming, visual fidelity and raw performance existed on opposite ends of the spectrum. You either compromise on image quality to maintain high frame rates or endure a rather sluggish experience to enjoy the latest graphical bells and whistles, which is a compromise RTX 20-series owners are painfully familiar with.

Let's say you've just bought a 7-port USB hub to clean up your desk. It feels like a productivity win, you've managed to clear your desk of so many cables and plug a whole load more devices into your laptop. But suddenly your mouse starts stuttering and your backup drive keeps disconnecting.

Ever had one of those days where your internet doesn't want to work, and navigating to websites just gives you slow-loading images and that stupid spinning wheel that is supposed to keep you calm while you wait, but of course, you're used to instant connectivity? Yeah? It's the pits, isn't it, but with a few networking tools, you can often diagnose the issue enough to know if it's your problem or your ISP's to sort out.

Whether you’re repurposing old PCs into makeshift servers, investing in pre-built NAS (Network-Attached Storage) chassis, or grabbing enterprise-tier paraphernalia, you’ll have to prioritize certain components over others. For example, a GPU is a low-priority aspect of a home server (unless your workloads involve rendering or LLM tasks). The CPU’s prowess, on the other hand, is pretty important when running virtualization platforms, while storage drives matter a lot in storage servers.

Well, here's some good news. In a world where DDR5 RAM prices have skyrocketed to previously unbelievable prices, Amazon is holding a flash deal on them. In a vacuum, it's not a bad deal, either; we're looking at a 15% discount, saving you $55 on a Corsair Vengeance DDR5 RAM kit containing two 16 GB sticks. Nice.

One of Linux’s biggest problems on the desktop isn’t stability, performance, or even software availability anymore. Rather, it’s the first impression. A fresh Linux install often works, but it doesn’t always feel good to use right away. The frustrating part is that most of what makes it feel rough isn’t fundamental to Linux at all, it's just default behaviors.