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Photo of an open, dark flip-style handheld game console with a blank screen on a wooden desk beside a small screwdriver and a USB cable, lit warm amber from one side and violet from the other

Turnip drivers on your AYN or Retroid: what they are, which build, how to install (2026)

Turnip is Mesa's open-source Vulkan driver for Snapdragon's Adreno GPUs. It installs inside one emulator at a time, never system-wide. Here's which handhelds it covers, where Eden, Azahar, Dolphin and Winlator keep the switch, and where the code comes from.

Aliteq Team · Oct 16 · 10 min

A person using an AI chatbot app on an Android phone

before you drop $800 on a GPU for AI, know what your phone can already do for free

Android Police ran a real local model on a real phone as a daily driver. it's not a GPU replacement — but it covers more than the GPU-shopping conversation usually admits.

Aliteq Team · Aug 16 · 6 min

Google Pixel 11 Pro smartphone shown from the back showing its triple camera array

Hardware

google just doubled the Pixel's storage — and quietly used the RAM crisis to explain it away

the Pixel 11 starts at 256GB instead of 128GB, for the same $899 as last year. that sounds generous until you realize why storage doubled right when memory got expensive.

Aliteq Team · Aug 13 · 7 min

A smartphone screen displaying a command-line terminal interface

Software

someone let their phone's AI install its own software. it actually worked — with a catch

An Android app called RikkaHub Agent turns a phone into a local-LLM-powered agent that can write code, run Linux commands, and compile software on its own — as long as you keep saying yes.

Aliteq Team · Aug 9 · 8 min