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My $15 Raspberry Pi hosts my password manager and gets rid of expensive subscriptions
Abhishek Kumar Mishra Apr 9, 2026, 3:31 PM EDT Abhishek is an author at XDA who covers computing. He has loved computers since he got the Lenovo G570 in 2012. Abhishek…
I stopped jumping between monitoring dashboards with one Claude Code command
…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 I had…
Your home server monitor dies with your server — an old Android phone fixed this for free
…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 Monitoring dashboards…
Switching from Cloudflare DNS to a home-built resolver taught me how much I was trusting them
…my network stack. Which is just about me, because nobody else in my family wants to touch it. That's by design; DNS logs show every site that my computers and other…
I blamed my NAS for slow streaming until I realized what transcoding was actually doing
…But it's not, you're streaming from one computer on your home network to another over the same network. Here's some rough numbers for each codec and common resolutions that…
Most Proxmox setups fail the same way, and you won't know until it's too late
…and computer science for a few years, Jeff launched his writing career . He's written for Macworld , Tom's Hardware , groovyPost , The Mac Observer , and more before beginning here at XDA. Sign…
Most Pi-hole setups leak your browsing to your ISP — here's the encryption layer that stops it
…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 Pi-hole…
5 misconceptions about home networking you still believe
…cloud computing and networking. He also competed in semi-pro Counter-Strike for 8 years, making him intimately familiar with everything to do with peripherals. Sign in to your XDA account As…
Claude Code, Codex, and Pi can create their own AI agents now, and that changes everything
…XDA account Agentic AI is the big thing right now, with names like OpenClaw and NemoClaw filling column inches, telling you to use or to stay away. Agents can organize your computer…