Your smart home needs both an ESP32 and Raspberry Pi 5, not one or the other
…That helps to save on cost and reduce the bulk. I still believe that. As I built more ESP32 projects , I kept hitting the same wall: several projects don’t fit on…
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I went back to IPS after years on OLED, and it exposed OLED's biggest flaws
…As you probably already know, OLED monitors come with panel care features to mitigate screen burn-in, but I've always felt that's not enough . Sure, pixel refresh does help, but…
I stopped trusting my router's diagnostics after my Raspberry Pi found what it missed
…That’s how it builds a device behavior history over time. With those tools, I have my network monitoring covered. The ntopng tells me what’s happening right now on my network…
My homelab monitoring broke silently until I switched from SMS to ntfy in an afternoon
…NAS, storage solutions, and PC internals to help readers master their tech. Sign in to your XDA account My previous homelab monitor was built around an old Android phone running a Python…
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Remote monitoring is the 3D printing feature I can't live without now
2d agoClaude Code helped me build maintenance scripts I could actually inspect, not just run
3d agoI let Claude Code Routines babysit my home lab while I slept, and it caught what my monitoring missed
1w agoThese 4 PowerToys tools fix the most annoying multi-monitor problems in Windows
1w agoI spent weeks chasing a DisplayPort problem that HDMI solved in seconds
…Related 5 reasons you shouldn't buy a dual-mode monitor Dual-mode monitors seem to be solving a problem that doesn't exist The handshake problems are real And firmware hasn…
My homelab SSD was silently failing, and one monitoring tool caught it before the other
…Now a Computing Writer at XDA, Shekhar leverages his deep background in NAS, storage solutions, and PC internals to help readers master their tech. Sign in to your XDA account There is…
I stopped buying smart home gadgets and started building them for a fraction of the price
…Building a smart home that works for me I continue to build ESP32 devices for better monitoring and automation. I am tired of paying a premium for cloud-dependent smart home gadgets…
The most useful upgrade for my gaming rig wasn’t inside my PC
…Upgrading to an OLED gaming monitor is the single biggest wow factor upgrade in modern gaming. Your GPU is the artist, but the monitor is the canvas. Perfect blacks and sub‑1…
My Raspberry Pi 4 still has a job in my homelab, and it isn't Home Assistant
…help people with their technology problems and gadget purchases. For that, he has worked for some of the biggest international technology publications, covering news, explainers, how-to guides, listicles, and product-buying…
If I could rebuild my PC from scratch, I'd do these 7 things differently
…Related You wouldn't believe these 7 PC building blunders I've made in the past These PC building mistakes from my past almost became PC breaking blunders Matching dual monitors My…