Home Assistant's intimidating reputation is completely undeserved once you survive the first week
Ayush Pande Apr 19, 2026, 10:00 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 upgraded my soundbar three times before realizing the actual weak link was sitting under the TV
…He's written for Macworld , Tom's Hardware , groovyPost , The Mac Observer , and more before beginning here at XDA. Sign in to your XDA account A lot of people look at a…
I stopped jumping between monitoring dashboards with one Claude Code command
…He is the founder of TechLatest, where he has spent years providing technical analysis on hardware and Windows ecosystems. Now a Computing Writer at XDA, Shekhar leverages his deep background in NAS…
I ran Cyberpunk 2077 inside a Proxmox VM on a mini PC, and it actually worked
…He's written for Macworld , Tom's Hardware , groovyPost , The Mac Observer , and more before beginning here at XDA. Sign in to your XDA account I didn’t expect one of my…
Running OpenClaw in Proxmox taught me that elegance doesn't always beat reliability
…He's written for Macworld , Tom's Hardware , groovyPost , The Mac Observer , and more before beginning here at XDA. Sign in to your XDA account I didn’t expect OpenClaw to become…
I built a local LLM server I can access from anywhere, and it uses a Raspberry Pi
Ayush Pande Apr 23, 2026, 11:00 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…
5 underrated Jellyfin features I wish I'd discovered sooner
…He's written for Macworld , Tom's Hardware , groovyPost , The Mac Observer , and more before beginning here at XDA. Sign in to your XDA account Jellyfin is one of those self-hosted…
Most "slow PC" advice you'll find online is 20 years out of date, and some of it is making things worse
…The problem is that the hardware underneath it has changed completely, and the software is very different, too. Most of that advice was written for a world where your primary drive was…
I don't pay for these 3 Google services anymore, and here's what I use instead
…Over the last decade he's written hundreds of articles about Linux configuration, troubleshooting weird problems, and using open-source tools in the real world. He also works a lot with Windows…
I 3D printed a tool organizer and accidentally fixed my entire workflow
…But “eventually” adds up when you’re switching between writing, 3D printing, troubleshooting hardware, and fixing whatever tiny problem decided to knock on the door that day. Once I printed a tool…