The new Maintenance dashboard is the Home Assistant feature I did not know I needed
Ayush Pande May 14, 2026, 1:30 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…
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Instead of Claude and Anthropic models, I use my local LLMs for coding (and not vibe-coding, mind you)
Ayush Pande Mar 23, 2026, 10:30 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…
4 unique integrations you never thought of using with Home Assistant
Ayush Pande Apr 2, 2026, 8:00 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…
I spent weeks fighting my Bambu's AMS, and now I understand why it's worth the frustration
…It adds hardware, sensors, moving parts, tubes, firmware behavior, and more troubleshooting variables. For someone who mostly prints in a single material and color, it's completely reasonable to say that the…
Most Proxmox setups fail the same way, and you won't know until it's too late
…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 Proxmox has a way of making a…
Trying to self-host LLMs made me realize local AI has a friction problem, not a quality problem
…Hardware constraints come later — the multiple layers of research, setup, and troubleshooting hold local AI back from mainstream adoption. Related I finally found an open-source local LLM that actually competes with…
I finally used my motherboard's BIOS flashback button, and it saved a dead build
…At that point, how would you even troubleshoot a PC that won't POST? Of course, you can use debug error codes to figure out what's wrong, but when you can…
Your Raspberry Pi will outlast your PC if you stop treating it like one
…Pi to leverage the hardware’s strengths. That’s when Pi just keeps going. If you push the Pi beyond that, you’ll spend more time troubleshooting the microSD card and dealing…
I tried an OpenClaw-inspired AI assistant on a $10 ESP32 board, and it actually works
…Then, zclaw demonstrated that an AI assistant can work even on tight hardware like ESP32 with an 888Kib of C firmware. The premise of running an AI agent framework on an ESP32…
Premium TVs ship with bargain-bin networking speeds, and it's getting harder to ignore
…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 Smart TVs have become ridiculously capable in…