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Google Maps was killing my battery on long drives until I changed these settings

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Google Maps was killing my battery on long drives until I changed these settings

Google Maps has been my go-to navigation app for years. I’ve tried Waze, but honestly, Google Maps is more reliable where I live. Waze’s appeal lies in its crowdsourcing, but when there aren’t enough active users around you, Google Maps makes more sense. But on longer drives, the app can really drain your phone’s battery. … Read more

The Gemma 4 works fine on my laptop, but putting it on a NAS has changed the way I use it

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The Gemma 4 works fine on my laptop, but putting it on a NAS has changed the way I use it

Ever since I used an old GTX 1080 to build a local AI hosting workstation last year, I’ve been benchmarking LLM final assignments on all kinds of hardware, from gaming systems to tiny single-board PCs and outdated cell phones. As you’d expect, devices with NPU and VRAM loaded graphics cards work fine with my local … Read more