Your PC is probably choking because one fan is fighting the rest
…can turn your PC into a bit of a vacuum cleaner and can pull dust through unshielded gaps and ports. Some people want to have a completely balanced PC by maintaining neutral…
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Synology felt like an appliance until I built a custom NAS with TrueNAS and realized what I was missing
…All I needed was a mini PC or compact desktop with a CPU and enough RAM to run the OS. Drives were easily connected inside a chassis with a few SATA ports…
I built a perfectly segmented home network, then spent six months poking holes back through it
…Related Setting up OPNsense on a mini PC was easier than configuring my old router Consistent performance with predictable behavior What my segmented home network setup looked like Reliable isolating everything... on…
My Raspberry Pi 4 still has a job in my homelab, and it isn't Home Assistant
…If my mini PC goes down, I can still access my network monitoring stack, especially when away from home. The entire setup took 15 minutes without port forwarding, changing firewall rules, or…
I moved my Zigbee coordinator off a Raspberry Pi after a year and everything got better
…The Zigbee coordinator was always available since I plugged it directly into the USB port, without an extension cable. Compiling and flashing ESPHome firmware on ESP32 boards is fast and more consistent…
Valve's Steam Deck didn't just succeed, it quietly changed how PC games are made
…It felt like, as a result, the Steam Deck killed the on-optimized PC port era by making it financially impossible for a developer to ignore a platform that now rivals the…
I turned my dusty Chromecast into a $250 smart home hub replacement
…ways including interviewing the CEO of Razer, AMD's Director of Product Marketing and the VP of Lenovo. Passionate about gaming and PC technology, she has built countless computers, keyboards and other…
These 4 free open-source apps fix what Google left broken on my Pixel phone
…You can set up persistent destination directories, configure quick-save settings to bypass manual approval, and even run it in the background on PCs. LocalSend LocalSend is a free, cross-platorm tool…
Your old Android phone is a better thin client than most mini PCs
…very intentional direction. Google Pixel 10 Pro Brand Google Display 1280 x 2856 pixel resolution LTPO OLED at (495 PPI) RAM 16GB Storage 128GB Battery 4,870 mAh Ports USB-C The…
I built a retro gaming library on my NAS, and RomM makes it feel like Plex for games
…Ocarina of Time remake — I already made my own Ship of Harkinian powers a native PC port of the N64 classic. Browser play makes the whole setup seamless The feature I underestimated…