I gave Home Assistant access to my NAS, and it became the dashboard my smart home was missing
Ayush Pande Jun 2, 2026, 10:01 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…
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I ditched Plex, Google Photos, and iCloud for self-hosted alternatives, and Pangolin made it actually work
16h agoI ditched my gaming PC for cloud gaming when hardware prices spiraled out of control
4d agoI integrated Claude with Adobe without paying for Creative Cloud, and it took my graphics workflow to the next level
1w agoI replaced cloud LLMs with local models running off a Proxmox LXC, and the performance trade-off was worth it
1w agoNetwork segmentation is the smart home security step nobody talks about
…His expertise broadly covers computers, smartphones, game consoles, headphones, smart home products, browsers, and apps. Sign in to your XDA account You spend hours following guides to set up Home Assistant , ESPHome…
The best PDF editor I use isn’t Adobe, and it’s better in ways that actually matter
Ayush Pande Apr 1, 2026, 3:00 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…
My Fire TV Stick is infinitely better ever since I enabled this hidden setting
…If an indie developer builds a game-changing media player, an advanced file manager, or a lightweight, ad-free video client, you can’t have it. If an app competes too closely…
These 3 Linux distros convinced me Windows wasn't worth keeping around anymore
…forced cloud features, or artificial bloat that comes with telemetry, it's an automatic win against Windows 11. Related 5 reasons you should use Bazzite instead of Windows on your gaming PC…
I stopped treating my NAS like a file box, and it became the most useful PC in my house
…I also host the Cloudflare container, which enables me to connect to my services from outside my network via a Cloudflare tunnel. Jotty Page replaced Google Keep for me, making it one…
Krita's AI plugins do what Photoshop charges $120 a year for, and the results surprised me
…being absolute game-changers for touching up images. That said, rival tools have come a long way over the last couple of years. The best part? If you despise cloud platforms that…
Obsidian proves that note-taking doesn't need AI to be powerful
…Outside of work, you'll often find Nolen diving into a good book, writing their own stories, or playing video games. Sign in to your XDA account If you open almost any…
The worst gaming GPU in your drawer might be your best home server upgrade
…Taking over transcoding duties, powering VMs with a real display output, or replacing a few small cloud services with inference that's actually useful are all things old gaming GPUs can excel…
This self-hosted presentation tool does everything Canva does, and it costs nothing
…Outside of work, you'll often find Nolen diving into a good book, writing their own stories, or playing video games. Sign in to your XDA account Canva used to be my…