XDA Developers

If you're an avid OneDrive user, you'll know that when you delete a file, the local version of the file will appear in the Recycle Bin. That way, if you want to grab it again, all you need to do is open up the bin and retrieve it again. It has been like this for a while now, and it has become a part of people's workflows.

Web development has changed massively in the last few years. There was a time when building a website meant dealing with raw HTML and CSS and obsessing over every tiny pixel by styling it yourself. Then tools like Wix and Squarespace came along where you could build a decent-looking website just by dragging and dropping elements.

Linux is well-known for supporting old hardware. If you have an aging PC and want to install an operating system on it that's still supported by its creators, there's a very good chance you can squeeze a modern-day Linux distro on it, and it'll run just fine. However, it seems that there is a limit to what the Linux community deems appropriate to continue supporting.

One problem with Windows is that it's always been difficult to know what exactly it's doing in the background at any given moment. When you start up an application, what's it doing that we can't see? It could be spawning processes, connecting to the internet, or doing something it shouldn't be, and it's not easy to tell.

Ever since NVMe became the "fast" SSD everyone talks about, I’ve treated it like one of those upgrades you’re just supposed to want. Every time I checked SSDs, the faster numbers were always associated with NVMe drives, and SATA started to feel like the older option you only bought when they had no choice, or when their PC simply couldn’t use NVMe.

When it comes to local LLMs, we have been told that if you aren’t packing a high-end GPU with a massive pool of VRAM, you are stuck with sluggish response times or ‘out of memory’ errors.

A month is a long time in AI, at least these days. That's exactly how long it's been since OpenAI released GPT-5.4 Thinking, its best and most powerful model to date. Some might say the most powerful model from any company, but after using it solely for a week, I'm not so sure. I'm going back to my cavern of Claude Code and its trio of frontier models, as that's what has worked best for my workflow.

Consumer routers, even the powerful ones, might be enough to get you online, but they hide a multitude of sins. The dashboard will get you SSID and password settings, DHCP, QoS, port forwarding, and maybe a guest network toggle if you're lucky, leaving you without a viewport into what goes on in your home network.

Without fail, Claude is undoubtedly the most hyped AI tool right now. The company had already been releasing banger after banger, and then the entire Anthropic x OpenAI x Department of War fiasco happened. Now, most people have only been using Claude the way they use ChatGPT and all other chatbots: typing a question, getting an answer and moving on. I'm not saying there's anything wrong with that, but also, you're missing out on more than you'd think.

Fedora had been calling to me for a while. Its bleeding-edge kernel, the latest in software, and clean vanilla GNOME were some of the main reasons I made the jump. I was also getting tired of a few issues that only Ubuntu seemed to have, like Snap slowly creeping into every aspect of my system. Ubuntu had treated me fine overall, but I wanted to try something else as a daily driver.

I did something that goes against how LLMs are designed and how people use them. I deliberately slowed down Claude, not its response or reasoning, but its speed of streaming the output.

Windows 11 earned a bad reputation slowly after each feature update. The OS launch was already a reason for hue and cry among the users who found the new approach difficult, and the performance slowdowns didn’t impress anyone. Microsoft began introducing new fixes, feature upgrades, and enhancements with each update, acting as a small band-aid for a big wound. Copilot AI's inclusion in almost every corner, paired with forced ads, tracking, and updates, made the situation worse.

Walk through any airport terminal or coffee shop, and you will inevitably see a homogenous sea of aluminum clamshells. Everyone at the gate is furiously tapping away on a MacBook Air or a Dell XPS. To their credit, Steve Jobs unveiled the MacBook Air with portability first, pulling it out of a manila envelope on stage for the unveiling. Today's Air is an undeniably fantastic machine—sleek, powerful, and utterly conventional. But laptops are also rigid, single-screen monoliths that lock you in a

Say what you will about its successor, but the original Nintendo Switch was nothing short of ingenious. As someone who has spent hundreds of hours in everything from mainstream Zelda and Fire Emblem games to Triangle Strategy, Astral Chain, and other obscure titles, I’m a huge fan of Nintendo’s hybrid console. But now that developers have moved on to its successor, I haven’t booted my Switch in weeks.

Most PC gaming handhelds are powered by AMD chips, for a variety of reasons, but the biggest is that AMD's semi-custom fabs will whip up the processor you need for the right price. That's no big secret; it's also why the PS5 and Xbox Series X|S use AMD APUs, as will the upcoming Steam Machine.

Instead of tossing your old laptop in the garbage, Google wants you to give it a new lease on life with its lightweight ChromeOS Flex operating system — and now, the tech giant is making that OS even easier to install.

I haven't had the best of luck with Bazzite in the past, but I've been giving it another go on a Legion Go this time, and it's been fantastic. Everything is snappy, whether in gaming mode or on the Gnome desktop, but there's one thing I didn't expect. That's games loading faster, from the time I press play in Steam.

So you've decided to self-host your media collection and shrug off the shackles of the streaming services. You've selected a NAS, populated it with scavenged hard drives, and armed yourself with phrases like "digital sovereignty" because they sound kinda cool.

The motherboard doesn't contribute directly to your PC's performance, except by providing the necessary slots and ports and decent power delivery. Spending more on high-end motherboards, therefore, is pointless for the majority of gamers. This is what I believed for a long time, and as a result, always bought an affordable motherboard that lacked niceties like quick-release slots, SSD heatsinks, and more.

I've lost count of the number of times my Windows PCs have randomly and unilaterally decided, "Alright, now's a great time to download and install this OS update." I sometimes wish I could find how my machine thinks per se, so I could interrupt it and school it to know better. Over many years and computers, this recklessness has cost me an hours-long video render running overnight, ruined family time on weekends because the HTPC put updates before my media, and articles I was writing.