Self-hosting freed me from the OS lock-in trap (and made my devices clutter-free)
Ayush Pande Mar 28, 2026, 9:00 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…
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I ditched Plex, Google Photos, and iCloud for self-hosted alternatives, and Pangolin made it actually work
1d agoI ditched my gaming PC for cloud gaming when hardware prices spiraled out of control
5d agoI integrated Claude with Adobe without paying for Creative Cloud, and it took my graphics workflow to the next level
1w agoI replaced cloud LLMs with local models running off a Proxmox LXC, and the performance trade-off was worth it
1w agoThe ESP32 project I'm most proud of has no cloud, no app, and no gimmicks
…His expertise broadly covers computers, smartphones, game consoles, headphones, smart home products, browsers, and apps. Sign in to your XDA account I regularly build ESP32 projects for my smart home. Yet most…
The best new Home Assistant feature in 2026 isn't AI, it's a 433MHz transmitter
Jasmine Mannan May 26, 2026, 10:00 AM EDT Jasmine is Software and PC Hardware Author at XDA with years of tech reporting experience ranging from AI chatbots right down to gaming…
I changed one setting in LM Studio, and it made my local LLM actually competitive with cloud models
…Outside of work, you'll often find Nolen diving into a good book, writing their own stories, or playing video games. Sign in to your XDA account The longer I use my…
The ESP32 Flash Bee is a palm-sized lightning radar you can build yourself
…The result is a handy little device that can identify how many strikes have happened, how strong each one was, whether it was a cloud-to-ground or a cloud-to-cloud…
This new feature in TrueNAS 26 makes accessing files easier than ever
Ayush Pande Apr 24, 2026, 10:01 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…
Google wants you to turn your old laptop into a ChromeOS Flex machine with a simple USB kit
…Patrick has also interviewed dozens of tech industry executives and covered GDC, E3, Gamescom, WWDC, Apple keynotes, Samsung Unpacked events and more. Patrick has a BA in journalism from Toronto Metropolitan University…
Running local LLMs every day for five months broke every assumption I had about them
…I still use cloud models It’s not a competition, just an addition The framing that local LLM content loves is " replace your cloud AI ," and I get why it’s appealing…
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…
I ran Gemma 4 (26B) on a 10-year-old-GPU, and it's reliable enough to replace the cloud
Ayush Pande May 10, 2026, 7:30 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…