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When you're battling dead zones in your home, you might assume that buying three or four high-end access points or even a multi-node mesh kit and mounting them in every corner of the house will improve your coverage and throughput. However, after powering on your full AP fleet, you might notice latency spikes, random packet drops, a battery drain on mobile devices, and lower real-world throughput than running a single well-placed router. ]]>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 17:01:17 GMThttps://www.xda-developers.com/i-added-more-access-points-to-fix-my-wi-fi-and-made-it-measurably-worse/ https://www.xda-developers.com/productivity-toolkit-koncentro-solved-context-switching-problem/I used to think context switching was just part of working on a computer. I'd move from one task to another, check something quickly, and then try to get back into the zone. The problem was that those small interruptions started adding up. I wanted a simpler way to stay focused without building another complicated productivity system. That's when I came across Koncentro, an open-source app that took a different approach to managing my work. ]]>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 16:30:15 GMThttps://www.xda-developers.com/productivity-toolkit-koncentro-solved-context-switching-problem/ Just ahead of the launch of developer verification next month, Google has started rolling out Android's new "advanced flow" sideloading process. Earlier this year, Google confirmed that Android would be getting an intentionally more cumbersome method of sideloading Android apps from unverified developers. ]]>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 16:17:04 GMThttps://www.xda-developers.com/googles-controversial-advanced-flow-sideloading-rolling-out-ahead-of-stricter-developer-verification/ https://www.xda-developers.com/dlss-preset-everyone-tells-to-switch-to-wrong-one-for-most-graphics-cards/When setting up a new graphics card or PC, it's easy to find advice to download DLSStweaks, force DLSS preset E or preset C globally across all of your games. As a result, you should enjoy instant free image quality. However, that promise is vastly different to what gamers might actually experience when blindly forcing a single preset, severe motion smearing on foliage, trailing ghost artifacts behind fast-moving vehicles and bullets, and particle and fog degradation. ]]>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 16:00:15 GMThttps://www.xda-developers.com/dlss-preset-everyone-tells-to-switch-to-wrong-one-for-most-graphics-cards/ Plex for years, but like most people, my usage was pretty straightforward. I'd add media to the library, let it grab metadata, and watch the content. However, once my media collection crossed a certain threshold, I started looking for options to organize it better. ]]>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 15:30:15 GMThttps://www.xda-developers.com/i-stopped-searching-for-movies-in-plex-after-discovering-this-one-built-in-feature/ Cyberleek, the group that has claimed responsibility for the recent substantial Grand Theft Auto 6 (GTA 6) gameplay leak, says they didn't just drop the footage for fun. The group recently published a manifesto calling out video game industry practices it disagrees with and even went so far as to say it plans to target other publishers it views as anti-consumer (via PC Gamer). ]]>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 15:07:38 GMThttps://www.xda-developers.com/gta-6-leaker-demand-an-apology-from-rockstar-over-its-anti-consumerism/ https://www.xda-developers.com/stopped-fighting-support-removal-changing-slicer-settings/Support removal used to be one of the parts of 3D printing I dreaded most. I could finish a print that looked great from every angle, then spend the next several minutes picking stubborn plastic out of gaps or trying not to snap something delicate as I worked the supports loose. For a while, I treated that as normal. A complicated model meant complicated cleanup, and that was apparently just the deal. ]]>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 15:00:15 GMThttps://www.xda-developers.com/stopped-fighting-support-removal-changing-slicer-settings/ https://www.xda-developers.com/claude-code-asking-same-questions-showed-this-one-markdown-file/I use Claude Code across projects, and every new session brings up the same questions. The answers almost never change within a project, so keeping them in individual conversations makes little sense. I now put these answers in a CLAUDE.md file at the root of the repository. This file acts as an onboarding manual for the bot and lists the commands I use, explains the parts of the project Claude needs to understand, and records the rules I otherwise type by hand. Claude Code reads the file when a session starts, so I can describe what I need and get straight to work without repeating the setup. ]]>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 14:30:15 GMThttps://www.xda-developers.com/claude-code-asking-same-questions-showed-this-one-markdown-file/ https://www.xda-developers.com/4gb-vram-modern-games-in-2026/While 1080p is still the popular resolution in PC gaming, good 1440p monitors have become affordable. However, games these days have become demanding, with some requiring capable GPUs to run smoothly even at the FHD resolution with the visual settings turned up. Moreover, it's not just the raw performance of the GPU that matters. The VRAM plays a significant role as well. ]]>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 14:00:15 GMThttps://www.xda-developers.com/4gb-vram-modern-games-in-2026/ https://www.xda-developers.com/6-things-you-can-connect-to-the-usb-port-on-your-playstation-5/