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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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AMD's tiny Ryzen AI box does what Nvidia's DGX Spark does at a fraction of the power

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By Joe Rice-Jones, Joe Rice Jones Verified
| XDA Developers
Depending on the model you choose, you can run local inference on pretty much any device you have access to. And they're good at it now, whether that's a 9B Qwen variant or a tiny quantized version of Gemma to run on your phone. But when you want to get into the development of AI or run larger models, the price of entry skyrockets. Enter the AMD Ryzen AI Halo, which is a relatively low-cost mini PC built around the Strix Halo APU and 128GB of LPDDR5x memory.
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My Event Viewer logs were useless until I fed them to Claude — now it catches failures Windows misses

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By Joe Rice-Jones, Joe Rice Jones Verified
| XDA Developers
Event Viewer and I have an understanding. It fills up with thousands of red X's and yellow triangles, and I ignore it until something visibly breaks. It's been that way since I was running Windows XP on an ex-enterprise HP laptop, and I'd bet that's the same for most of you. Windows logs everything with the enthusiasm of a paralegal, and it's hard to tell which of those errors and warning signs are actionable and which are just random noise.
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I turned on Windows 11's AI agents, then immediately revoked their file access

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By Joe Rice-Jones, Joe Rice Jones Verified
| XDA Developers
I'm the guy who wires MCP servers into his home lab for fun, so Microsoft's announcement of on-device agents for Windows 11 spoke to me. I'm the target audience, whether I like it or not. I've spent months using frontier and local LLM models to control my Proxmox cluster, or my DNS, or browse through my Windows Event Viewer logs. Agentic automation is my favorite use case for AI, and I believe it's the one that most people will get on board with. I really wanted to like Copilot Actions. I did.
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