Your old phone is a better home server than a Raspberry Pi
…A classic smart home usage is the Home Assistant Voice Satellite. A recent Home Assistant update, 2026.3, adds native wake-word detection to the Android Companion app. This means that you…
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ESPHome's Device Builder finally lets you compile multiple devices at once, and it changes everything
…Works without using IP addresses Compiling firmware in ESPHome is slow when running Home Assistant on SBCs like Raspberry Pi. That’s one reason why home lab users move their Home Assistant…
Sonos users are vibe-coding their own apps, and I tested the best 3
…For that, he has worked for some of the biggest international technology publications, covering news, explainers, how-to guides, listicles, and product-buying guides. He has worked as an editor and managed…
Gemini for Home is a subscription trap disguised as smarter automation
…Sign in to your XDA account For many other smart home users and me, a smart home assistant should be a local deterministic traffic controller rather than an analytical cloud companion. By…
Microsoft's Copilot obsession backfired, and now it's frantically erasing it from Windows
…product. However, there was a huge flaw in Microsoft's plan, one that people didn't really see coming. In the early days of LLMs, we saw them as general assistants that…
The Busy Bar is an open-source productivity tool that comes from the Flipper Zero team
…It's designed to pack everything you need from a productivity-enhancing device into a single product, including alerting you to upcoming events and serving as a Pomodoro timer. However, as you…
Amazon Echo Show 8 hits $125, its lowest price ever ahead of Prime Day
…but it also provides access to Amazon's Alexa assistant, popular music and video apps, and can control connected smart home products. While it's usually $180, it can now be had…
My favorite alternative to NotebookLM isn't Claude Projects; it's something way cooler and productive
…Then I started using Copilot Notebooks, and it felt like the productivity hub I had been trying to build for myself. Related I replaced NotebookLM with this free tool that uses my…
NotebookLM solved my research paralysis in a way no other productivity tool could
Mahnoor Faisal May 15, 2026, 6:00 AM EDT Mahnoor Faisal is a tech journalist covering AI and productivity tools with bylines at XDA , SlashGear , MakeUseOf , Laptop Mag , and Android Police . She…
Claude Code out of the box is good, but these mods make it actually production-ready
…of any coding assistant is that its training data eventually becomes outdated. That becomes a problem when you're working with fast-moving frameworks and expecting accurate, production-ready code. Context7 solves…
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