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The Ultimate Claude Code Workstation

A Hardware Guide for People Who Actually Work With AI With regards to AI and Claude, here’s what most people are not writing about yet: the hardware side of working with Claude, and more importantly, the human side. A lot of AI blog and Reddit posts out there fall into one of two camps. Camp A is obsessing over local LLM rigs, how many NVIDIA H100s you can cram into a tower, how much VRAM you need to run a

CTRL+V to paste images & screenshots not working in Claude Code? [SOLVED]

So this took me a minute to realize, and if it saves even one person some frustration, it’s worth a post. I’m working in Claude Code, trying to paste a screenshot or image like I can in VS Code with Claude Extension:CTRL+V… nothing.Try again. Nothing.Different image. Still nothing. A few thoughts are running through my head? Turns out… nope. I was just using the wrong shortcut. The magic combo is: ALT + V After which you should see something beautiful

RTX 5080 vs. RTX 3090: Is It Time to Upgrade in 2026?

Is the Upgrade Actually Worth It? The internet loves a clean upgrade narrative: Old card bad, new card good, spend money. But the reality of the NVIDIA RTX 5080 era is messier and more interesting. If you are currently rocking an RTX 3090, you’re still packing serious heat. That card remains a 24GB monster. The big question: Is the 5080 a meaningful leap forward, or just high-end hardware FOMO? Let’s break down the data. Raw Gaming Performance: Faster, but is

Kawasaki Mule 4010 Won’t Start? Try this simple FREE fix first

This Simple “Shifter Fix” Might Help You! If you turn the key on your Kawasaki Mule 4010 and get nothing: no click, no crank, just dead silence… don’t rush to order a new starter just yet. While a dead battery or a bad solenoid are common suspects, the real culprit can sometimes be much simpler: your Mule may not realize it is truly in Neutral. The Kawasaki owner’s manual specifically identifies this “no starting effort” symptom and points toward three

How to Set Up WAN Video Generation on Windows 11 with LoRA [Wan2gp]

Wan2GP install on Windows 11 [tips and potential fixes] I recently needed to setup Wan2GP for a client project and if you’ve got an NVIDIA GPU with decent VRAM and want to get into AI video generation, WAN (Wan2.1/2.2) models are currently some of the best open-source options available. Here’s my guide to getting it running on Windows, including the gotchas I ran into along the way. What You’ll Need Your Two Main Options Option 1: Wan2GP (Recommended for Most

How to Enable the File Gallery in WAN2GP/WanGP [SOLVED]

Quick Fix: How to Enable the File Gallery in WanGP If you’ve been using WAN2GP/WanGP (specifically v9.81 by DeepBeepMeep), you know it’s a powerful tool for generation—but managing your outputs can be a hassle if the Gallery tab is missing. I recently ran into an issue where the File Gallery plugin seemed to be installed, but the actual “Gallery” tab was nowhere to be found in the top menu. After a bit of troubleshooting, I found the fix is incredibly

Alienware / RTX 5090 Laptop — Quick Spec Dump (Reference)

I lucked into a super deal on this laptop (in-store only) about three months before RAM prices started getting crazy, and my wife was awesome enough to pick it up for me at Micro Center while she was in the city. 🙌 So far it’s been an absolute beast: coding, compiling, LLMs, image generation, and basically anything else I’ve thrown at it without breaking a sweat. It lives on my desk most of the time, but it’s pretty great being

AMD APU (CPU+GPU) Review: From 7840U to the Monster “Strix Halo” 395 AI Max+

I’ve been getting some comments lately about the current state of AMD’s mobile processors. It’s a bit of a jungle out there with the naming schemes (looking at you, AMD marketing department 😉), so I wanted to put together a guide as I regularly use these CPUs/APUs in my daily work. Specifically, we are looking at the evolution from the popular “Thin & Light” 7840U (like in my trusty T14) all the way up to the beast, the Ryzen AI

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