HBA cards unlock cheap enterprise storage for your NAS, but the gotchas are real
…Sign in to your XDA account Sooner or later, a NAS or home lab that's pulling double duty hits the same wall: too much data, not enough space to store it…
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Home Assistant is way more than a smart home dashboard, and here's what I actually run on it
6d agoI connected my dumb appliances to Home Assistant, and it felt like upgrading my whole house
1w agoI used an old router as a dedicated smart home network, and it solved two problems at once
1w agoHome Assistant can now see when you use the physical remote, and it changes everything
1w agoI stopped trying to replace my Nvidia Shield and built something better instead
…Sign in to your XDA account My home media setup has been a work in progress for years now. I like something, discover something better, break things, and, occasionally, switch back. And…
Your home server monitor dies with your server — an old Android phone fixed this for free
…no dependence on either my home server or my network. But it was still weak when alerting me to any downtime. I couldn’t carry the smartphone everywhere, as I already had…
4 USB-C features that felt like magic the first time I used them
…I could just plug my Pixel 10 Pro into my Mac with a standard USB 2.0 cable, but since I wasn't at home, the usual USB 3.2 cable I…
Your bad Wi-Fi isn't your ISP or PC's fault if you're following these 4 practices
…tech and adding new devices to your smart home , router updates are the only surefire way to make sure that you never run into compatibility issues. TP-Link Archer BE550 $200 $250…
I turned my phone into a local LLM server, and it handles vision, voice, and tool calls
…What it didn't mean, until pretty recently, was pulling the phone out of your pocket and asking it to do the thinking for your entire smart home. That's changed with…
Intel's Arrow Lake refresh should have arrived months ago
…Compatible motherboards and RAM are expensive $199 at Newegg Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus 8 /10 Cores 24 (8 P-core, 16 E-core) Threads 24 Cache 36 MB Smart Cache…
I built a 10-inch ePaper dashboard for my 3D printer, and it's the best display I've ever used
…My Bachelor’s thesis was conducted on the viability of benchmarking the non-functional elements of Android apps and smartphones such as performance, and I’ve been working in the tech industry…
Your TV is hiding its best HDMI port, and it's probably disabled by default
…Related This key smart TV setting might be the reason your PS5 and Apple TV look "just fine" Chances are you're leaving performance on the table Even the special HDMI port…
HDMI 2.2 promises 4K at 480Hz, but your current cable situation is about to get worse
…More confusion at home Keep your HDMI cables sorted Even once you have the right cables at home, it falls on you to find the right cable for each device at any…