I gave Claude Code my dotfiles, and it rewrote my whole shell
…on your desktop, and if you hand it your dotfiles, it can even rewrite your shell. When I gave Claude Code access to my dotfiles, it tore through my shell setup, and…
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I ditched Claude Projects for a self-hosted setup that costs nothing and does more
2d agoClaude Code found the quiet problems hiding in my Home Assistant setup, and I've been ignoring them for months
2d agoI ran local LLMs on my phone for a month, and now my desktop setup feels like overkill
5d agoI stopped adding hardware to my home lab when I realized fewer moving parts meant more uptime
1w agoI found a hidden Google TV feature that lets me use my smart TV offline
…All of that adds weight to the system, and the result is a television that is slower and more annoying than the ones that came before it. There's a strong case…
I stopped trusting cloud AI with my personal files, and switched to this local setup instead
…Microsoft's setup prompts, but now I'm keeping a local-only Windows account on purpose. For syncing to my other devices, I use Syncthing , it exposes minimal metadata and performs no…
My homelab monitoring broke silently until I switched from SMS to ntfy in an afternoon
…The whole setup was dependent on the Termux app and API to run the app and send SMS alerts, and sometimes the process died silently. Even when the device and app worked…
Microsoft PowerToys quietly fixed the multi-monitor problem Windows never did
…or have one in portrait and one in landscape orientation, or have them in any configuration that isn't side by side. Or if you use a dock to add more monitors…
The best $50 I ever spent on my PC didn't add a single frame to my games
…on your setup When you're looking for a $50 monitor arm, don't let the low price tag fool you. There is a massive difference between a budget arm and a…
A used office PC is the best media center upgrade I've made in years
…With my earlier setup, most of my library lived on Jellyfin , and that’s where the cracks started to show. A NAS, especially one running a low-end chip, often struggles with…
My old phones replaced three smart devices in my Home Assistant setup
Ayush Pande Apr 18, 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…
I thought a VPS would replace my home server, but the real costs caught me off guard
…And even when it works via software transcoding on a shared vCPU, the performance isn’t comparable to the local setup. Nextcloud and Immich are the same story; they rely on large…
I switched from HDMI to DisplayPort and fixed PC gaming bottlenecks I didn't know I had
…This translation can add latency, which matters for competitive gaming. USB-C to DisplayPort, on the other hand, happens without any conversion, preserving full bandwidth and introducing no additional latency. DisplayPort also…