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Maker, meme-r, and unabashed geek. If it runs on electricity (or even if it doesn't), Joe probably has one around his office somewhere. His hobbies include photography, animation, and hoarding Reddit gold.

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Razer Wolverine V3 Pro controller review: Pressing all the right buttons

Razer Wolverine V3 Pro controller review: Pressing all the right buttons

Razer hit it out of the park with its first wireless Xbox controller, the Wolverine V3 Pro.

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5 reasons a controller is the best gaming laptop accessory, and it's not even close

5 reasons a controller is the best gaming laptop accessory, and it's not even close

Got a new gaming laptop? Get yourself a controller even before you start deciding what games to play.

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Nvidia GeForce RTX 4080 Super review: Minor power increase with a major price slash

Nvidia GeForce RTX 4080 Super review: Minor power increase with a major price slash

With a hefty drop in MSRP over the card it's replacing, this graphics card is finally priced correctly.

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Glowforge Aura Review: The At-Home Laser Cutter To Beat - SlashGear

Glowforge Aura Review: The At-Home Laser Cutter To Beat - SlashGear

The Glowforge Aura is the least expensive laser cutter you can buy from Glowforge. It's simple to use, safe, …

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Bambu Lab X1-Carbon Combo Review: Professional 3D Printer, Hobbyist Price - SlashGear

Bambu Lab X1-Carbon Combo Review: Professional 3D Printer, Hobbyist Price - SlashGear

The Bambu Lab X1-Carbon Combo FDM 3D printer works with its own Automatic Material System (AMS) and takes a c…

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Gigabyte GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Gaming OC 12G Review: Big GPU, Giant Price - SlashGear

Gigabyte GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Gaming OC 12G Review: Big GPU, Giant Price - SlashGear

The Gigabyte GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Gaming OC 12G graphics card is a giant -- it rolls with big processing power…

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My managed switch had a port isolation feature I ignored, and it finally tamed my smart home devices

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By Joe Rice-Jones, Joe Rice Jones Verified
| XDA Developers
Every smart home starts from a few devices, and grows over time. Maybe it’s a few smart bulbs, or a smart speaker, but it’s not long until you have dozens of devices on your network. Then you realize they’re a security menace, and separate them from your other network devices with a VLAN. I did that too, and then thought I’d solved the problem. It solved one problem, sure, but keeping my laptops, NAS, and PC away from my IoT devices is only part of it.
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Claude Code got better when I stopped treating it like a code editor and started using it like this instead

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By Joe Rice-Jones, Joe Rice Jones Verified
| XDA Developers
I’ve been underutilizing Claude Code for most of the last year. Seriously, it’s been a fancy text editor that lives in my terminal and makes small changes for me while I do other things. Sure, I’ve spun up a small team of subagents, but it always felt like I was using them for little things I should have done myself. I’ve used Claude Code to manage my homelab and given other coding agents long-term memory, but most of the projects I’ve used fell short of expectations.
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I changed one hidden TV setting, and the picture quality difference was immediate

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By Joe Rice-Jones, Joe Rice Jones Verified
| XDA Developers
I'll admit something embarrassing for someone who writes about display tech for a living. My last TV ran in its factory picture mode for the better part of a year. I'd taken weeks agonizing over panel types, my budget, and peak brightness numbers, and when it arrived, I plugged it in and ignored any of the settings. Now, to be fair, I use an Apple TV 4K with any display I watch movies on, and it's set to Dolby Vision mode, so I might not have noticed the TV was in a subpar setting.
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