I quantized a local LLM on my home server and ditched cloud AI for smart home control entirely
Ayush Pande Jun 29, 2026, 1:30 PM EDT Ayush Pande is a PC hardware and gaming writer. When he's not working on a new article, you can find him with…
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Your soundbar sounds hollow due to this one misconfigured TV setting
…An MBA in Marketing and the owner of a PC building business, he writes on PC hardware, technology, and Windows. When not scouring the web for ideas, he can be found building…
Home Assistant's local LLM support outperforms Gemini for Home, and Google knows it
…Gemini for Home is backed by Google’s AI research and server hardware. Yet, it still gets outpaced in its own arena by community-nurtured open-weight models running on consumer hardware…
N100 mini PCs quietly killed the Raspberry Pi for home servers
…on the performance and OS compatibility fronts The Intel N100 runs circles around the RPi in terms of processing capabilities After all, the RPi 5’s hardware was outdated by the time…
Wine has been translating Windows games to Linux since 1993, but Proton is what made it effortless
…Instead of emulating hardware, it's a compatibility layer that translates Windows API calls into their POSIX equivalents. When a Windows game asks Windows to "create a window with these dimensions," Wine…
8 self-hosted services a total beginner can set up in a single weekend
…Jellyfin iOS compatible Yes Android compatible Yes Desktop compatible Yes Jellyfin is one of the best Plex alternatives you can get, and that's thanks to its open-source nature and powerful…
I ditched my arcade stick for this leverless fighting controller, and the muscle memory didn't transfer
…There is a gray-topped version that's $20 less, that also comes in your choice of Xbox-compatible and PlayStation-compatible connectivity. Whichever way you go, this fighting stick (is that…
I stopped tweaking Jellyfin and started upgrading everything around it instead
…Jellyfin iOS compatible Yes Android compatible Yes Desktop compatible Yes Jellyfin is one of the best media servers, but getting it to work best for you might come down to more than…
4 cool operating systems that have nothing to do with Windows, macOS, or Linux
Ayush Pande Jul 6, 2026, 9:30 AM EDT Ayush Pande is a PC hardware and gaming writer. When he's not working on a new article, you can find him with…
Proxmox releases full support for the Arm64 architecture, with a few key caveats
…First, your host hardware has to boot via UEFI and describe its hardware using ACPI. Your virtual machines also boot using UEFI via the Arm build of OVMF (AAVMF), and SeaBIOS isn…